Category Archives: Spatial Humanities

Review: Tice and Steiner’s Vasi Map

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Elijah Meeks

Tice, James, Erik Steiner and Allan Ceen.  “Imago Urbis: Giuseppe Vasi’s Grand Tour of Rome.” University of Oregon. http://vasi.uoregon.edu/   Imago Urbis: Giuseppe Vasi’s Grand Tour of Rome was created in 2008 by Jim Tice and Erik Steiner and remains, … Continue reading →

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Isophoretric Maps

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Elijah Meeks

Isochrone maps are well-known enough to have their own Wikipedia page and Google Maps API tutorial. These represent the time to get to or from locations as a gradient and/or contour. Their usefulness in representing historical movement is obvious, as … Continue reading →

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Watercolor Basemap

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Elijah Meeks

Stamen Design, who has done too many beautiful geospatial things for me to count, has created something I’ve been wanting for years. It’s a web basemap in watercolor.   Incredible. More information on how they were made can be found … Continue reading →

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Building a Scholarly Digital Object

Posted on March 19, 2012 by Elijah Meeks

I’ve been exposed to a lot of exciting digital humanities research since I came to Stanford, both in the formal projects I’ve been brought in on to support and in consultation with and exposure to ongoing research by various individual … Continue reading →

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Parallel Edges in pgRouting

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Elijah Meeks

If, like me, you neglected to check and see if pgRouting (the pathfinding library for PostGIS) handles parallel edges in its default shortest path query, then you’ve likely found out that it doesn’t. You can tell that something is wrong … Continue reading →

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Comparing Geographic Visualizations to Network Visualizations

Posted on March 1, 2012 by Elijah Meeks

With March having arrived, it’s time for me to pivot away from Imperial Roman networks and toward new projects. This means stepping away from purely geographic networks and back into more abstract networks, specifically the networks made of genealogical connections. … Continue reading →

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Models as Product, Process and Publication

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Elijah Meeks

In building a transportation network for the Roman Empire and integrating it into a model of movement in the Roman Empire, I’ve found that the shift from creating, annotating and analyzing archives to modeling systems can have a profound impact … Continue reading →

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Geographic Networks: Getting Started with pgRouting in PostGIS

Posted on January 15, 2012 by Elijah Meeks

I’ve been working a lot with pgRouting in PostGIS lately.  While the work I was doing with geographic networks originally used general purpose network analysis tools like Gephi, I’ve moved the entire Roman transportation network into a PostGIS2 database to … Continue reading →

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Adventures in Modularity

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

I’ve been more engaged with community detection in networks lately.  Community detection, what’s listed as the Modularity option in Gephi’s statistics toolbox and referred to as such in the literature, relies on a variety of methods to try to identify … Continue reading →

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The Marriage of Standards and Access: Centralized Services as a Tool for Collaboration, Publication and Curation

Posted on December 3, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

Today at the HASTAC V conference, I’ll be demoing the spatially-enabled Drupal sites I’ve been developing here at Stanford and the Geoserver+PostGIS backend that these sites point to.  I’m going to post the text and images from the accompanying poster … Continue reading →

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