http://awmc.unc.edu/wordpress/
From the home page:
The
AWMC is proud to announce the release of a
series of geographically accurate, publicly accessible map tiles (
http://awmc.unc.edu/wordpress/tiles/ ), suitable for use in nearly any web mapping application or GIS software suite. These tiles are hosted on
Mapbox servers courtesy of
ISAW, and are created by
Ryan Horne from AWMC data produced by
Richard Talbert,
Jeffrey Becker,
Ryan Horne,
Ross Twele, Audrey Jo
, Ray Belanger, Steve Burges, Luke Hagemann, Ashley Lee, and
others.
Offering the first (and at the time of this writing, only)
geographically accurate base map of the ancient world, the AWMC tiles
conform to the broad periodization presented in the
Barrington Atlas,
with different selectable water levels for the Archaic, Classical,
Hellenistic, Roman, and Late Antique Periods. In addition, we also model
inland water, rivers, and other geographical features as they appeared
in antiquity. The base tiles are culturally agnostic, allowing them to
be used to represent the physical environment of nearly any ancient
society in the Mediterranean world. In addition to the base map and
geographical tiles we also present the Roman road network, generally
following the
Barrington Atlas with additional work by the AWMC. Like all of our other electronic offerings, our new tiles are released under the
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC 3.0) license and remain absolutely free for personal, academic, and non-commercial use.
The area surrounding Miletus with different water levels based on time period
For guidelines on how to use the tiles in an application, please visit
http://awmc.unc.edu/wordpress/tiles/map-tile-information. These
tiles are a “living” data set, and will be constantly refined to
reflect the ongoing work of the AWMC. We welcome feedback on any aspect
of this work and we encourage the community to suggest enhancements,
fixes, or any other comments on our
dedicated site.
You can see the tiles in action in our
API (see, for example, the
Urban Area of Rome), the new
Beta Version of Antiquity à la Carte 3.0, and at the
Pleiades Project.
Southern Spain with different base layers and road tile overlays in À-la-carte 3.0
Along with our tiles, The Ancient World Mapping Center is also releasing a
beta version of Antiquity à la Carte 3.0 (
http://awmc.unc.edu/awmc/applications/carte-transitional/). The application, engineered by
Ryan Horne,
builds upon the two previous iterations of À-la-carte, which appeared
in Spring 2012 and October of the same year. Continuing to draw upon
the work of the
Ancient World Mapping Center and the
Pleiades Project,
the updated version will incorporate the new AWMC Mapping tiles, along
with the expanded features first introduced in v. 2.0. Until the beta
version is stable with all of the previous functionality enabled,
À-la-carte version 2.0 will remain operational at
http://awmc.unc.edu/awmc/applications/alacarte/
. In the meantime, we welcome any feedback on the beta version as we
endeavor to create an application that is useful to the ancient world
community. We are particularly excited that our new tiles allow us to
feature modern data alongside our ancient offerings, which will open
many new possibilities and applications for À-la-carte.
