Do you just need a map and fast? Nothing fancy, just the basics? It is possible to create your own map courtesy of the Online Map Creation website. To create a map here you need to know the longitude and latitude of the area you want to map. So, for instance, here is a map…
Tag: GIS
The Geography of Aryanization
This past week I found an interesting application of GIS technology to the history of the Holocaust in Austria. The website NS-Crimes in Vienna offers visitors a large database of information on Jewish families evicted from their apartments in Vienna in 1938-1939. The database includes information on each evictee, including such things as date of…
Off the Desktop
Environmental historian William J. Turkel of the University of Western Ontario offers those interested in GIS and history a place to start their thinking on the subject. His website on Place-Based Computing includes a number of useful resources, but perhaps the best is a series of slides he presents from a talk given last year…
New Media at the AHA
After a hiatus for the holiday break, EdWired is back. I spent last weekend in Philadelphia at the American Historical Association’s annual conference. Most of the time I was locked in a hotel room interviewing candidates for a European history position at GMU, but I did manage to get out long enough to chair a…