Tag: Hand-inked map

• A Tolkien-style map of the whole world, drawn from real data

  

  A Tolkien-style map of the whole world, zoomable from continents to single hills: little ink peaks on the real high ground, forests of tiny trees, rippled coasts, red lettering and towns drawn as tiny houses, all generated from open data.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  art, Hand-inked map, Hills and mountains, landscape, old maps, OpenStreetMap, Present day, Terrain model, World, world maps

• England in 1086, drawn: every Domesday vill on a hand-inked map

  

  A fantasy-novel map of the real England of 1086, where every house, mill, plough team and flock comes from Domesday Book.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Britain, Domesday, Domesday Book, England, Hand-inked map, history, industry, maps, medieval

• Caravanserais of the Silk Roads: a day’s march apart?

  

  960 caravanserais, khans and ribats from Wikidata and OpenStreetMap on a hand-inked map. All together they crowd closer than a day’s march; one dynasty at a time, the Safavid caravanserais of Iran stand a median 34 km apart.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Asia, buildings, Clustering test, Early modern, Hand-inked map, history, medieval, OpenStreetMap, Roads, Transport, Wikidata