Ancient World Mapping Center launches demo version of “Antiquity à la carte”...
AWMC unveiled the demo version of its new “à la carte mapping” program this past weekend at the 2012 meetings of CAMWS in Baton Rouge, Lousiana. Engineered by Ryan Horne, a Ph.D. student in Ancient...
View ArticleAntiquity à la carte update
Work continues on AWMC’s “Antiquity à la carte” application, with an enriched, high-resolution terrain layer and increased functionality available under ‘Map Tools’. We are eager for community feedback...
View ArticleAntiquity à la Carte 2.0
Antiquity À-la-carte 2.0 The Ancient World Mapping Center is pleased to release version 2.0 of the Antiquity à la Carte application. Version 1.0 appeared in spring 2012 and served as a proof of concept...
View ArticleNew Public Map Tiles and Antiquity À-la-carte 3.0 Beta
The Base Map tiles with road overlays The AWMC is proud to announce the release of a series of geographically accurate, publicly accessible map tiles (http://awmc.unc.edu/wordpress/tiles/ ), suitable...
View ArticleAncient World Mapping Center poster at UNC’s University Research Day
This afternoon, the Ancient World Mapping Center is participating in The University of North Carolina‘s annual University Research Day. The Center will be displaying a poster collage of our latest...
View ArticleAWMC presentation at HGIS Carolina Student Showcase
HGIS Carolina is hosting a Student Showcase today (April 3) from 3:30-5:00p “to allow UNC students to present their work using GIS to study, reconstruct, and visualize the past.” Ross Twele, Ryan...
View ArticleAWMC presentation at UNC Research Computing Symposium
The University of North Carolina’s ITS Research Computing Group is hosting its first annual Research Computing Symposium today (20 May) at the Carolina Club in the George Watts Hill Alumni Center....
View ArticleAWMC Annual Report 2013-2014
5-1-13 to 4-30-14 ANCIENT WORLD MAPPING CENTER (http://awmc.unc.edu) Among the projects undertaken by the Center during this very active year two major preoccupations stand out. One was the...
View ArticleCambridge University Press Publishes The Geography of Strabo
Duane W. Roller’s remarkable new English translation of Strabo’s Geography is now available from Cambridge University Press ( ISBN: 9781107038257; e-book ISBN: 9781139950374). To accompany it, the...
View ArticleArticle of Interest
A new article by Kurt Raaflaub and John Ramsey in Histos 11 is sure to interest practitioners of ancient cartography and GIS. In “Reconstructing the Chronology of Caesar’s Gallic Wars,” Raaflaub and...
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