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UniStuttgart-VISUS / damast

Code for the DH project "Dhimmis & Muslims – Analysing Multireligious Spaces in the Medieval Muslim World" (VolkswagenFoundation)
MIT License
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Add free map material without modern-day geopolitical and infrastructural features #224

Closed mfranke93 closed 4 months ago

mfranke93 commented 5 months ago

The default OSM map tiles are nice, but do not fit the historical data very well regarding borders, roads, etc.

Schoeneh commented 4 months ago

@mfranke93 Hi! I'm the SHK (student assistant) of Dorothea Weltecke, who also dabbles in GIS and the Spatial Humanities. Maybe we could talk about possible base maps / map tiles? (I've done some work with naturalearthdata.com - especially Natural Earth 2 - over the last few years...)

mfranke93 commented 4 months ago

Hi, nice to meet you! Sure, we can do that :smiley:

As it happens, I was just working on this issue as your mail arrived. Over the last two months, I've created a set of map tiles that just show shaded relief and no other features whatsoever, because I needed permissive material for the screenshots in my thesis as well.

I have found that just the shaded relief; in combination with oceans, lakes, and rivers from Natural Earth; already provide a good background map for Damast that does not distract too much from the visualization in the foreground (see attached image).

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I'm quite close to merging this into main and deploying to the instances at HU. But that doesn't mean we can't add other map material as well.

Schoeneh commented 4 months ago

Sorry, I didn't check my mentions - I thought GitHub would email me :( Do you have a preferred way of communication (Email, Messenger, Social Media)?

mfranke93 commented 4 months ago

@Schoeneh I should have mentioned you in my reply! Sure, you can reach me on my university e-mail for now: Max.Franke@vis.uni-stuttgart.de