Comments on: Interactive 18th century Rome

Interactive 18th century Rome

peacay — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:21:59 -0800

Imago Urbis: Giuseppe Vasi's Grand Tour of Rome is a rich and innovative geographic database that projects Vasi's 18th century engravings of Roman architecture onto the contemporary map of Giambattista Nolli [previously] with supplementary modern satellite, photographic and mapping overlays together with copious background detail. The work was undertaken by researchers at the University of Oregon (announcement) [via]

By: IndigoJones

IndigoJones — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:32:15 -0800

Oh, that is nice. Many thanks.

By: dragonsi55

dragonsi55 — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:29:41 -0800

Very nice. Ian McHarg would've been pleased. By-the, I passed this link on to the Edward Tufte site, with reference to this post. Hope you don't mind.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:50:38 -0800

Wow, that's impressive. Now if only someone would do that for prerevolutionary Paris!