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Updated categorization of places
Hundreds of rivers, islands, lakes, capes, temples, monasteries, and monuments have been categorized
Mapping aggregations of roughly located places
No longer do fuzzy places blot out their neighborhood
New home page
Lighter, faster, more engaging
More locations from DARMC
1793 more DARMC features have been reconciled with Pleiades places
New and improved spatial criterion for collections
The new "Where" criterion replaces the previously announced "Geolocation" criterion
Linked Data for Barrington Atlas Grids
Pleiades often refers to Barrington Atlas grid cells and now there is supporting linked data
Material tags for mines and quarries
It's now possible to dig in Pleiades for gold and silver
Ratings for locations and names and upcoming design changes
Users can promote or demote names and locations within the context of their place
Navigating name resources
On an effort to improve discoverability and navigability of name resources
Linked Data for Pleiades Places
RDF representations of places and a complete RDF dump make Pleiades ready to join the Linked Open Data Cloud
Daily KML dumps
The whole enchilada as KMZ archives
1600 new places from the Barrington Atlas
Along with coordinate improvements for another ~70 existing places
New landing page for places
A new and improved landing page for the folder of places and a technical introduction have been added
Coordinate upgrades for Mediterranean coast of France and NE Spain
Arelate–Massalia, Colonia Forum Iulii–Albingaunum, and Hispania Tarraconensis
Site downtime Wed Sep 21 22:00 UTC
Approximately 1 hour
Upgrade completion
We're now running Plone 3.3.5 with the latest security patch and the site is again read-write
Connecting places
Geographically connected places can be linked together even if their exact coordinates are unknown.
First locations for unnamed features
127 unamed DARMC features have been reconciled with Pleiades
Spatial parameters for the site search form
Public spatial search of published Pleiades content
A letter to Pleiades users about privacy
Let's talk about privacy