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From: Ruel J. Eskelsen
List Editor: "Eric L. Martin" <elmartin@LCSC.EDU>
Editor's Subject: World History Atlas in Computer Digital form
Author's Subject: World History Atlas in Computer Digital form
Date Written: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:27:10 -0800
Date Posted: Sat, 20 Nov 2009 16:27:10 -0500

George Mason University
ruel.eskelsen@gmail.com

I am a graduate student in World History and New Media at George Mason
University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA.

I am interested in identifying digital, computerized, world history
atlases that would replicate the best features of the printed atlases
we have.  I personally use the two-volume paperback "Atlas of World
History" by Hermann Kinder and Werner Hilgemann, published by Penguin
and have found this to be one of the best portable resources going
back to my undergraduate years in the 1970s.

I have used the World History Sources site at GMU's Center for History
and New Media and some internet searching and have identified the
"atlasofworldhistory.com" site, Timemaps.com, the atlas at WikiMedia
Commons, and the material at the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative
(ECAI)

I would appreciate any other resources readers of the list know about,
especially development in "Open Source" that would be cross-platform
computer wise and run in a browser as opposed to the proprietary
software in some of the resources listed above.

Thanks,

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