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Coordinates for contributions reward program
Here's the deal: contribute to places now and we'll prioritize coordinate upgrades for their neighborhoods
Coordinate upgrades for Latium and Campania
508 places have been relocated with coordinates from the Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilizations
First coordinates from DARMC
Places of Britannia have coordinates from the Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilizations
Place detail upgrades
We've made sweeping upgrades to the details field of places
Introducing modern names
Adding modern names into the mix to improve reusability of resources
Maps 38, 65 updates and new batch process
We've used map directories 38 and 65 as a successful trial of bulk location precision upgrades
Daily dumps of locations, names, and places
Tabular snapshots of resources for researchers
Round 2 sub-milestone
We've finished the import of all named and unnamed point-like features
Imported map directory 55
Thessalia-Boeotia
Monitoring the editorial process
Part 1 in a series of recipes for getting information about the editorial process out of Pleiades
FAQs 6-10
Answers to 5 frequently asked questions
Imported map directories 39-41
Mediolanum, Patavium, and Pisae
Imported map directories 42, 44, 45, 47, 48
Arretium-Asculum. Latium Vetus, Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica
Imported map directories 43, 59
What's an ancient world gazetteer without Athens and Rome?
Data import round 2 schedule
What and when
Imported map directories 25, 26, 31
This completes the named places for Hispania-Libya
Answers to frequently asked questions
Hopefully useful answers to important questions
The "neighbor" tab and more
New convenient view of neighborhoods, spatial criterion improvements, and distance sorting
Map of a place's neighborhood
We're now showing neighboring places in maps
Spatial criteria for collections
Constrain searches for ancient world resources with new spatial criteria