Chronocarta

How did a people from Scandinavia end up sacking Rome and ruling Spain? The Goths undertook one of history's most epic migrations, and their journey forever changed the face of Europe. I mapped out their incredible story.

I wrote more in detail here: open.substack.com/pub/chronocart…

The world you were born into doesn't exist anymore. I was born just in time to live through the pivotal points in history. These are the major territorial changes in Europe during my lifetime.

@Finchedemo I've had a couple of people ask for tutorials before. I haven't seriously thought about it yet. What specifically would you be interested in? What format? Videos or text with images?

@chronocarta If available ，writing some tutorials would be better😏

I've been making maps for almost 9 months now. I always loved looking at maps. Now I make them myself. My workflow went from manually placing shapes to having GIS accurate vector data maps. I'm still learning new things and am having a blast.

@kvali_app I already am. All my new maps have GIS and georeference data.

@chronocarta Looks awesome. Have you tried using a GIS?

If you want to explore more maps and history in one place, I have a newsletter here: chronocarta.substack.com

Everybody was a slave. In the 10th century Slavs and other people from Central, Southern and Eastern Europe were transported and sold to and by Arabs. Saqaliba is a medieval Arabic term for these slaves.

@Buckeruu @treblewoe I use Common Era as a cultural, academic and practical term that's commonly agreed upon, not a theological one. I don't center my worldview around any religions. Also, the birth of Jesus is possibly miscalculated and happened between 6 BCE and 4 BCE.

@chronocarta @treblewoe Why do you use CE and not AD? What about the Era is Common? Who made the Calendar you use? You don’t have to disrespect Christian civilization in accordance to your practice of history.

Upping my cartography skills. My maps will be interactive from now on. Ported this map from Illustrator to DeckGL

@EditorEnBici The historical maps I've shared so far, I made in Illustrator. But I've been working on a map app for a while to make and share them in an interactive format. So that people can actually engage with them.

@chronocarta Tell me more

3669 ports of the world mapped and color coded by country.

@verlagmeyer I don't know what advice to give here, because I don't know where you're at now. Learning to code may be the first step.

@chronocarta Illustrator I can use. How do you get started on DeckGL ?

@SoarAtlas So right now geo referencing works by manually setting points. But this will use AI to do it automatically?

This is BIG! 🚀 We've made an AI tool that automatically georeferences maps. It analyses coordinates, text, and shapes in your image to cleverly place it over its location. The results are shockingly accurate! Join the waitlist to be notified: georeferencer.ai

@youwillmakemaps MAPublisher is pretty awesome. The only complaint that I have is that with big data sets, it gets really slow. But that's an Illustrator issue. Even without MAPublisher.

Eating crow with this tourist map project: styling "drag a box, get an SVG" non-georeferenced vectors is a fast way to map, but if the client wants a new extent ("show more to the east") you have to start with a new raw SVG instead of adding data to your current view. So I restarted in a geo-aware way using MAPublisher. An ounce of prevention... 1) Added U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/LINE coastline and roads, put them under my extant road lines and deleted what I didn't need (always tedious, can't be skipped when making maps for humans). Select-by-location was too annoying to get working since the original roads I wanted to extend were not georeferenced 2) Overlayed a bus route (thanks Cursor + Claude for reading "GTFS API" documentation, whatever that is) and conformed it to my road layer 3) Adjusted the labels to match the new zoomed-out scale, wiped some and added others 4) Moved the inset. Let's see if these changes stick....

@_vinayak_k I'm not opposed to it, but: It's React & Next.js, not Vue Still very early in development Not optimized, the data alone is 116mb I'm using sketchy tricks to get things look right. Like polygons for arrows and text.

@chronocarta i’d love to add this to my examples i’m working on - mapcn-vue.geoql.in/examples

@theepicmap I don't mind people sharing my maps. But please link back to my profile.

From Northern Holdouts to Victory: The Long Reconquista of Iberia

When the Umayyad Caliphate took most of Iberia, tiny holdouts clung to the northern mountains. Two centuries of relentless struggle finally pushed Muslim rule out of Europe.

@rodnoverkind @theepicmap I used The Goths by Peter Heather as my main source.

@theepicmap Please epic maps i need this, my ostrogoth grave goods sources are kinda homeless

Gothic migration

@SputniksWorld @theepicmap Thanks! You may like some of my other maps too. Check out my profile.

@theepicmap That is one of the most interesting maps I’ve seen💯

Making a new map is always a hit or miss. 🧵Here are some of my most popular ones. Starting with my first and most popular one. Let me know what other eras, areas or topics you want to see more maps of. x.com/chronocarta/st…