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Category Archives: ORBIS
ORBIS in JDH
The Journal of Digital Humanities came out with Vol. 1 No. 3 today, which includes three articles about ORBIS. Two of these are written by Karl Grossner and myself, and consist of an introduction to ORBIS and an examination of … Continue reading
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Introducing ORBIS|via
The following also appears in the Applying page of ORBIS. ORBIS|via: A Situated Perspective of a Transportation Network Based on Computer Gaming Principles ORBIS|via can bee seen at orbis.stanford.edu/via/ The initial response to the release of ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial … Continue reading
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Catastrophic Success
There have been a few times over the last two weeks when I thought traffic to ORBIS was finally leveling off. The novelty factor of the work is high–there are very few Imperial Roman Mapquests, or Google Maps for Rome, … Continue reading
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What a bunch of nerds!
There’s a lovely piece on ORBIS at Ars Technica causing what is, for a digital humanities project, quite a bit of traffic.
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Metrics of Success
After two weeks, ORBIS has received over 36,000 visitors, with 4000 return visitors and over 45,000 route queries to the map. People are downloading the traditional PDF version of the article, as well as CSVs and KMLs of their … Continue reading
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A Week’s Worth of Travel in the Roman World
ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World has been up and running for a week now and the response has been simply incredible. While we all expected it to be well-received, especially among the particular scholarly community … Continue reading
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Announcing ORBIS
Those of you who are regular readers will know that I’ve been working on Roman transportation networks since last July. It is my pleasure to announce the results of that work: the release of ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model … Continue reading
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