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kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 🇦🇱 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🧵 The Environmental Dimensions of Place Service (EDOPS) v0.4 is live: edops.computingplace.org Give it a place (settlement, historical polity) & get a structured "environmental signature" of the drainage basin(s) it occupies: hydrology, climate, terrain, etc. + climate & land use over time 1/3

Home page of the Environmental Dimensions of Place Service (EDOPS), with links to its 3 principal pages, Sandbox, Workbench, Data Explorer

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World Historical Gazetteer @whgazetteer.org · 28/08/2026

Inspired by @sharonhoward.bsky.social's beautiful mapping of @thegozfather.bsky.social's catalogue of pleadings in the Court of Requests, we're building a new Workbench tool to help identify place names from the descriptions. worldhistoricalgazetteer.github.io/workbench-de...

Heatmap of England and Wales showing the density of places identified (or misidentified) from the TNA descriptions of its Elizabethan-period pleadings in the Court of Requests.

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World Historical Gazetteer @whgazetteer.org · 01/06/2026

Trying something new: feeding old print gazetteers through modern OCR + open LLMs + our newly-expanded index to see how much can be turned into searchable, mappable data. Read more at blog.whgazetteer.org?p=434 Play with it: worldhistoricalgazetteer.github.io/gazetteer-of...

Global heatmap of the roughly 116,000 places extracted from A Gazetteer of the World (1856), plotted on a world basemap. Density is highest across Britain and Europe, South Asia, and the eastern United States; sparser across much of Africa, South America, and the interior of Asia, reflecting the 1856 compilers' Anglocentric reach.

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World Historical Gazetteer @whgazetteer.org · 22/05/2026

🕵️We're transcribing and geocoding all 7 volumes of "A Gazetteer of the World" (1856), a monumental work edited anonymously by "a Member of the Royal Geographical Society" @rgs.org - can anyone suggest who that might have been, and why they might not have been named? archive.org/details/agaz...

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World Historical Gazetteer @whgazetteer.org · 20/05/2026

Want to map your dataset like this? Our free Reconciliation API matches your place-names phonetically against over 67 million historical & modern toponyms from GeoNames, Wikidata, Pleiades, Getty TGN & more, and returns coordinates. Works with OpenRefine too!📍 docs.whgazetteer.org/content/tech...

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2. Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) - Documentation for World Historical Gazetteer

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Stephen Gadd @docuracy.co.uk · 05/07/2025

🌍 Ports are now (optionally) shown on the eRutter to help with route picking. 🤔 They're currently fetched from @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social, but this would be a great use case for a @whgazetteer.org temporal API to filter out modern ports and highlight ancient ones.

At low zoom levels, cluster markers indicate the locations of ports.

At higher zoom levels, each port gets its own marker, coloured by category.

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Stephen Gadd @docuracy.co.uk · 16/06/2025

🧭 Building a lightweight sea-routing graph for historical GIS & DH use cases beyond simple port-to-port hops. Edges are weighted for ~5km coastal preference. Aiming for serverless exploration of connectivity in historical maritime trade. ⚓️ #MaritimeHistory #HistoricalGIS #DigitalHumanities

Diagram of historical sea routing graph for Europe.

Diagram of historical sea routing graph for Europe, showing (in red) weighted edges in the zone favoured for coastal sailing (~5km).

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Seán Thomas Kane @sthosdkane.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

This week on my blog I wrote about my methodology in discerning modern placenames from the 16th century counterparts in Thevet’s “Singularitez.” Part of the translation I’m preparing for publication. #earlymodern #frhistory wednesdayblog.org/2025/05/21/o...

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On Toponymy

This week, the first in several scribblings about my research: how I connect historic places in my sources with their modern names.

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World Historical Gazetteer @whgazetteer.org · 30/04/2025

🌍 Recent updates to the WHG user interface give faster loading and globe visualisations. Image: Indigenous Place Names in North America, a WHG Place Collection at doi.org/10.60681/whg... Explore more at: whgazetteer.org ! #DigitalHumanities #HistoricalGIS #GeoHumanities #HistoricalGeography

Globe visualisation of Indigenous Place Names in North America, a WHG Place Collection [https://doi.org/10.60681/whg-collection-172]

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