Explore the Site

Read Up

Why not start the old-fashioned way? The "About", "Atlas", and "Spatial Profile" sections are relatively text-dense (as this site goes) and should provide enough information to orient yourself and locate what interests you. The "Observations" and "Calculations" sections contain maps accompanied by texts - ranging from a few lines to 2,000 words - that comment on the maps. The narratives you find there are meant to spur your own spatial musings.

Run a Keyword Search

You can use the box in the upper right corner to search keywords. The search culls through Items and Collections, but won't pick up the text of the essay-like texts spread across sections of the site.

Browse by Item

Use the "Item Browser" tab to accecss the tag cloud. Click on any single tag, or check the boxes next to two or more to execute your search. 

Follow the Breadcrumbs

Once you start sifting through the Items - the bread-and-butter of the site - you will notice "Item Relations" at the bottom of the display. These identify one-to-one relationships between Items and can reveal both anticipated and unanticipated connections. The Item Relationships are being built out over the course of August 2016: I highly recommend tunneling through the material in this way once they are in place.

Take a Fine-Toothed Comb through the Data

In the "Data" section you will find descriptions of the spatial, raster, and tabular data that power the project. You will also find links (easily accessed through the "DataFinder") to each dataset and map layer in Dataverse and on WorldMap (respectively). Download the files for your own use, to satisfy your curiosity, or to critique my use of the data. Here's to embracing the notion of history as the perfect social science / humanities hybrid!