Online Historical Atlas

alcibaides · Apr 7, 2009

I am launching an online historical atlas of the Mediterranean:

http://explorethemed.com

You can click on map features to see pictures and read more information. This site is a work in process and will gradually expand as I add more maps over time.

Let me know what you all think of it. Please point out:

-Any factual innacuracies
-Any extra features the site should have.
-Any design issues to improve on, etc.

Thanks and enjoy - Gareth

Antilogic · Apr 7, 2009

Let me be the first to congratulate you! It's a neat website.

For some reason, my browser crashed when I tried to click-and-hold over a battle to make the box come up permanently. Might just be the stupid Internet Explorer on the work computer, though--I want to try Firefox when I get home.

alcibaides · Apr 7, 2009

Actually the site works a little better with IE than mozilla. It has been tested in Mozilla though and works fine, its just the pop-up boxes will always appear on the top left of the screen instead of at the location of the map feature.

I have not have the browser crash on me before. Where did that happen?

You don't really need to "click and hold", you just have to left click once and the window should stay open.

Yui108 · Apr 7, 2009

I must know how you made this! It's just what I need for a NES project. The idea is each year in a fictional world we will make a map like yours with pop-up boxes.

Antilogic · Apr 7, 2009

GarethMann said:
Actually the site works a little better with IE than mozilla. It has been tested in Mozilla though and works fine, its just the pop-up boxes will always appear on the top left of the screen instead of at the location of the map feature.

I have not have the browser crash on me before. Where did that happen?

You don't really need to "click and hold", you just have to left click once and the window should stay open.

I was clicking and holding, which I think is the reason why it crashed. I forget which screen I was looking at, but not all your text fit on the pop-up screen that came up automatically.

vogtmurr · Apr 7, 2009

Very interesting, and a nice work. I've thought of doing something like that myself.

So tell me do you think the Sea Peoples were descendants of the Mycenaean and Minoan cultures (maybe even Trojans ?) that fled their homeland when the Dorians invaded ? Because at this time, the iron Age invaders were likely a land power, whereas the bronze age Achaeans were already a well armed and organized sea power, and from the accounts, the Sea Peoples were looking for a new home. Seems to fit a lot of the mythology of the day too.

bob bobato · Apr 7, 2009

This is amazing. What I think you should do, though, if you ever get the time, is to somehow turn all these maps into layers for google earth, so you could you could compare past and present maps (ie, see how large such and such a country was 500 years ago, as opposed to it's size today, and where all those lost cities were on a modern map).

Birdjaguar · Apr 7, 2009

It works fine in Opera. Do the maps use an "image mapping" process? As Yuri said, such maps would be very nice for NESing. http://forums.civfanatics.com/forumdisplay.php?f=69

Abaddon · Apr 8, 2009

Awesome source

Yui108 · Apr 8, 2009

Birdjaguar said:
It works fine in Opera. Do the maps use an "image mapping" process? As Yuri said, such maps would be very nice for NESing. http://forums.civfanatics.com/forumdisplay.php?f=69

It's Yui, pronounced yuu-ee

But yes, any advice on programming these would be a huge help.

alcibaides · Apr 8, 2009

Thanks everyone.

As far as the code goes, virtually all of it is client side javascript. So if you right click on the page and say "view source" you will see the code for the pop up windows. The only part you cant see is the call to the database to pull out the information that goes in the pop-up box. That is simple vb script to connect to an access database by an ID value.

@vogtmurr - the sea peoples are quite an enigma, I think experts in the field are not all in agreement about where they originated. But I imagine that they must have come from somewhere in the Aegean.

vogtmurr · Apr 9, 2009

Minor things GarethMann, but the Greek-Persian War map should show Marathon 490 BC, as SE of Athens, not NW. And, you should include the naval Battle of Lade 494 BC. Other than that if you stretched the map a little bit further east you could show Eurymedon 468 BC, but Salamis (in Cyprus) and Memphis would clearly be stretching it too far.

Dachs · Apr 9, 2009

vogtmurr said:
Minor things GarethMann, but the Greek-Persian War map should show Marathon 490 BC, as SE of Athens, not NW.

No, Marathon is in the right place.

It's 'Eretria' though, not 'Eritrea'.

vogtmurr · Apr 10, 2009

Dachs said:
No, Marathon is in the right place.

damn you got me again - decades of misplaced geography overturned in one night :blush:

Online Historical Atlas

alcibaides

Warlord

Antilogic

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alcibaides

Warlord

Yui108

Deity

Antilogic

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vogtmurr

Emperor

bob bobato

L'imparfait

Birdjaguar

Hanafubuki

Abaddon

Deity

Yui108

Deity

alcibaides

Warlord

vogtmurr

Emperor

Dachs

Hero of the Soviet Union

vogtmurr

Emperor

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