[RNLD List] mapping placenames

[Nick Thieberger]

Thanks to everyone who answered my question about mapping. In addition to
the replies to this list, I want to point to an excellent suite of tools
available in Orange3
https://orange.biolab.si/ which includes many widgets, some of which can
analyse and display geographic data (
https://orange.biolab.si/widget-catalog/) but also text analysis, stats,
and data visualisation.

Nick





On Thu, 9 Jul 2020 at 17:21, Kellen Parker van Dam <
kellenparker.vandam at uzh.ch> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> What I have done instead of maps like OSM/Google is to use the same
> backend database I would for a web based map and instead render that with
> D3.js <https://d3js.org/>, which creates SVG images that can be
> customised similarly to web tilesets as Hiram suggests, uses the same data,
> but is much more print-friendly. This is my current approach to nicer
> looking printable maps, rather than grabbing a screenshot of a web-based
> map and crossing my fingers that it will look nice when printed. You can
> control what labels show, how big they are, thicknesses of lines etc and
> you don't need any different data sets than what you'd use for a web map.
>
> A quick note if putting into OpenStreetMap: As long as the locations you
> are trying to map currently exist, or you mark them as "ruins" or some
> other historical settlement feature (I forget what all the options are at
> the moment), then it's not an issue. However if you're looking to map
> anything that's otherwise no longer there then it's unfortunately not
> possible to use OSM without running afoul of various regional standards.
> For many countries, there is a dedicated user base that maintains their own
> standards which differ from country to country depending on how that group
> of active users decides to enforce things, and you may end up seeing
> additions being reverted. Think Wikipedia power users. I've put a large
> amount of my own region of study in, but for things like exo/endonyms of
> villages, you're again contesting with any other user in the region who may
> change it causing you to end up with what may be offensive labels on the
> map you are hoping to produce with the dataset. I encourage people to keep
> adding to OSM, just be aware of the possibility of your additions being
> removed or changed.
>
> Regards,
> Kellen
> ---
>
> Kellen Parker van Dam
> Department of Comparative Language Science
> Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution
> University of Zürich, Switzerland
>
> On Thu, 9 Jul 2020 at 09:01, Sylvain Loiseau <
> sylvain.loiseau at univ-paris13.fr> wrote:
>
>> Dear Nick,
>>
>> - OpenStreetMap is also useful for creating the data (and having the data
>> open-source).
>> - The annotated area can be exported from OpenStreetMap and imported in a
>> GIS like QGIS for instance. You can finely set the label properties, select
>> map background, etc.
>> But you must probably know that already.
>>
>> By the way, I have been adding a lot of villages in OpenStreetMap for a
>> poorly covered PNG area, and I was wondering whether OpenStreetMap couldn't
>> be an interesting tool for the cumulative recording of geolinguistic data.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Sylvain
>>
>>
>> > Le 9 juil. 2020 à 08:43, Nick Thieberger <thien at unimelb.edu.au> a
>> écrit :
>> >
>> > I'm looking for someone to create print-ready maps of placenames. I can
>> make online maps in google earth or google maps, but I need a person or
>> software that will allow 200 labels to be legible on a small map. Any
>> pointers gratefully received,
>> >
>> > Nick
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>>
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