LevkaYesterday I stumbled across the paper edition of this in the laundromat. It put me a little in mind of *The Sun* magazine minus the poetry and plus a local focus. I'll let yu now if it turns out to be crap. The paper version didn't but with the internet, one never can tell.
DARIAH EUPlace names can change over time, so working with historical maps can sometimes be tricky. #Gazeteers can help! ✍️ 🗺️
This lesson from Programming Historian demos working with a #gazetteer to resolve small differences across maps and #SpatialData.
#TrainingTuesday #GeoHumanities
➡️ Find out more on DARIAH Campus: https://campus.dariah.eu/resources/external/working-with-named-places-how-and-why-to-build-a-gazetteer
Anne DelongThe Internet Archive is an invaluable resource for historians and genealogists.
Here, for example, is the 1846 Smith's Gazetteer of Canada West, which has a description of every town, township and village in Ontario at that time. May of the names have since changed.
https://archive.org/details/smithscanadianga00smit/page/n7/mode/2up
Smith's Canadian gazetteer : comprising statistical and general information respecting all parts of the upper province, or Canada West ... With a map of the upper province : Smith, William Henry, of Canada : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
2 p.L., ii, 285, [1] p., 1 L. : 22 cm
GoldSealYesterday's links:
More Crystal Frontier
https://alldeadgenerations.blogspot.com/2025/03/fear-in-handful-of-dust.html
Illusions
https://wardagainstevil.com/2025/03/07/treat-illusions-as-you-would-any-other-lie-no-rolls/
Free adventures - 5e
https://olddungeonmaster.com/2025/03/07/dd-5e-adventure-at-08-the-pirate-queens-ploy-pdf-free-download/
Inspiration
https://fabledlands.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-world-of-dragon-warriors.html
Hubert HobuxA haunted #Gazetteer…
..of Derbyshire... I've decided to compile a haunted gazeteer of places I have visited in the Shire previously ..in search of paranormal activities.. it won't be concise as the county is wide.. I am reliant on public transport.. and not every place is happy to be painted with the haunted tar brush... but I have plenty of past visits to fall back on.. stay paranormally tuned...
https://huberthobux.wordpress.com/2025/01/05/a-haunted-gazetteer/
Michael Höckelmann 何彌夏🇹🇼🇭🇰🇪🇺#BOTD in #ChineseHistory: Wei Yuan 魏源 (1793–1857), scholar-official in late imperial #China, proponent of New-Text #Classicism #今文經學 and the School of #Statecraft #經世學派, and author of the Illustrated Treatise on the Maritime Kingdoms #海國圖志, a #gazetteer on the West.
DEI Dungeon ExplorersLots of great Gazetteers and Top Secret goodness this week. Who doesn't want to play a spy?
Skip Lacaze@Ooze @trishalynn @Damon Good luck. I used to spend more time on #Wikipedia than social media. Dealing with #Deletionists discouraged me and I cut back on my editing hours. It wasn’t so much the few negative comments that showed up on my talk page, but the comments made in deletion discussions on some articles that I had started or many that I watched. The cadre of pissants that would show up at every attempt to delete an article about a public high school almost always supported each other with arguments that, essentially, ignored Wikipedia’s Five Pillars in favor of “I’m not interested in this, so it doesn’t belong here.” The same opposition was raised to articles about young or female achievers other than in tech or other fanboy favorites. It was also clear that few editors or admins understood what a #Gazetteer was, as opposed to an encyclopedia. I’m going to follow you in hopes that your research will show up before too long. #Wikipedian #Inclusionist
Damien Petermann@Enfanthese et tu voudrais les spatialiser automatiquement ou manuellement ?
Si ce ne sont pas des adresses précises ou des localités bien identifiées (présentes dans un #gazetteer, sorte d'annuaire géospatial de lieux), l'option manuelle sera sans doute meilleure
Si ce ne sont pas des adresses précises ou des localités bien identifiées (présentes dans un #gazetteer, sorte d'annuaire géospatial de lieux), l'option manuelle sera sans doute meilleure
Stephan KurzGrapevine on important toponym and geodata datasets related to the #Ottoman parts of #Europe:
- Boykov_Gazetteer_Generalkarte von Mitteleuropa (v.1) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8409507
- Grigor Boykov. (2023). Boykov_Gazetteer_Russian-3verst_map [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8411078
Impressive #geodata #gazetteer work that is free to reuse under CC-BY 4.0!
Boykov_Gazetteer_Generalkarte von Mitteleuropa
The gazetteer contains 21,524 macro toponyms, manually map mined from the Generalkarte von Mitteleuropa (1:200,000), a result of the 3rd Military Mapping Survey of Austria-Hungary. The gazetteer is formatted as a CSV spreadsheet with seven columns. For each toponym, it provides the following information: longitude latitude Name Indicates the toponym as it appears on the map Description Indicates the settlement's modern name using the original spelling and alphabet of its respective country. AltName Indicates settlements indicated on the map with more than one name Type Indicates the category of the toponym assigned by Boykov: arsenal; barracks; bath; bridge; chapel; church; customs office; factory; fishery; fishing weir; fortress; han; hospital; institute; karaul; lighthouse; lithography; mandra; melting house; metochion; military depot; military station; military supply spot; mill; mine; mine_quicksilver; mine_ salt; monastery; ore deposits; paddy field; palace; pasture; port; quarantine; residence; road tunnel; ruins; ruins. fortress; saltworks; school; settlement; settlement_chiftlik; settlement_huts; sheepfold; stud; summer pasture; tabiya; teke; tower; train station; villa; water spring; watermill; winery; winter pasture Country Indicates the modern state in which the toponym falls: Bulgaria (BG); Greece (GRE); Kosovo (KOS); N. Macedonia (MK); Romania (RO); Serbia (SER); Turkey (TR) The gazetteer is a work in progress and your feedback is highly appreciated. Please do not hesitate to contact at: [email protected] and [email protected] If you would like to use the gazetteer in further publication, please use the credentials specified below: Grigor Boykov. (2023). Boykov_Gazetteer_Generalkarte von Mitteleuropa (v.1). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8409507 Acknowledgements: For developing the gazetteer Boykov received funding from the Bulgarian Science Fund. Data extraction was carried out by Hristo Hristozov of the University of Plovdiv and Alexander Zhabov of the University of Sofia.