Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Pleiades News: Hadrian's Wall milecastle and turret data

Milecastles project completed

by Sean Gillies last modified Feb 07, 2012 04:23 PM Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
We've imported the milecastle and turret data compiled by Scott Vanderbilt
205 places connected with Hadrian's Wall were imported today. The neighborhood KML view of Hadrian's Wall shows them all.
HW All
Below is a closeup. Some forts and milecastles are represented by polygons, turrets are represented by point placemarks. Finding a way to keep the point placemarks from swamping the polygons in these maps is a high priority todo.
HW Closeup
Scott's spreadsheet and the script used to load its records into Pleiades are kept in the project folder at http://pleiades.stoa.org/docs/content-development-projects/hadrians-wall-milecastles-and-turrets-2012.

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