Category: GIS

Digital Classicist sprint on Geospatial tools & projects

c-palladino Ancient Greek, Archaeology, Best Practice, Community, Event, Gazetteer, Geodata, GIS, Linked Open Data, Roman May 10, 2016 2 Comments »

The Digital Classicist is holding an “online sprint” on Tuesday 31 May, from 16–18h BST (= 17–19 CEST = 11–13 EDT = 10–12 CDT, etc.), with the aim of adding articles to, or improving existing articles in, the wiki, on geographical or geospatial datasets, projects, tools, methodologies and other related questions. All of you who are working […]

“How many miles to Babylon?”

Administrator Ancient Greek, Archaeology, Community, Geodata, GIS, Roman October 2, 2014 No Comments »

The answer to this famous nursery rhyme – “three score and ten”, i.e. 70 km – seems outrageously high for a day’s journey, no matter “if your heels are [exceptionally] nimble and light”. (Even swift-footed Achilles would struggle to cover 70 km in day!) So, what are we to make of it? How can we […]