https://pleiades.stoa.org/
Geography aficionados and readers who appreciate the ancient world may want to check out Pleiades,
a resource billing itself as "a community-built gazetteer and graph of
ancient places" that "gives scholars, students, and enthusiasts
worldwide the ability to use, create, and share historical geographic
information about the ancient world in digital form." Visitors may like
to begin by exploring this project's more than 36,000 places, a random
selection of which appear in the slideshow on the main page. Rather than
traditional GIS layers, this intriguing project organizes its data into
conceptual places, spatial locations, and identifying names, all of
which are connected together to create reference information hubs. Those
interested in downloading data or contributing to Pleiades
should be sure to visit its Blog and Help sections. As of this write-up,
the site has "extensive coverage for the Greek and Roman world, and is
expanding into Ancient Near Eastern, Byzantine, Celtic, and Early
Medieval geography." Pleiades was created as a joint project of
the University of North Carolina's Ancient World Mapping Center, the
Stoa Consortium, and New York University's Institute for the Study of
the Ancient World.
via https://scout.wisc.edu/archives/r51294/pleiades
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