Writing Meme Day 14

[erastes]

14. How do you map out locations, if needed? Do you have any to show us?

I adore maps.  And I use maps. Lots and lots of maps.  I have a whole bookmark file filled with maps of London in particular from 1600 onwards.

Here’s where David and Jonathan lived in Transgressions. I like to think they lived on the Gaydon Road to the north.

Here’s a few of my favourites that I use a lot.

Map of London in 1818 – utterly invaluable for the Regency. It’s HUGELY detailed and although it might take a little while to load it’s so worth it.  What I really don’t understand is why the UCLA School of Public Health are doing hosting it, because unless you know where it is, you can’t find it from their front page.  Hope to hell it never goes down.

16th & 17th Century London – used this one for Transgressions when David and Tobias were there

The first UK road map? dated 1675 it maps London to Land’s End in a very logical manner

The Poverty Map of London – shows you where the following could be found:

Lowest class. Vicious, semi-criminal.

Very poor, casual. Chronic want.

Poor. 18s. to 21s. a week for a moderate family

Mixed. Some comfortable others poor

Fairly comfortable. Good ordinary earnings.

Middle class. Well-to-do.

Upper-middle and Upper classes. Wealthy.

:)

Links to more map porn.

I also use Multimap a LOT, for distances and directions, and I slather over Google Earth a great deal.

Comments

[leni-jess.livejournal.com]

Thanks for all those links! Lovely, mmm. Have been taking a quick shufti and bookmarking with abandon.

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

Oooh, thanks. I wonder if these can be saved to a file (for reference purposes, naturally.)

[countrygirlxxoo.livejournal.com]

It might take you a while, but if you click on the image until you get to the biggest resolution available, you can right click on it and save the image to your hard drive. That way you won't have to worry that they'll take it down on you. If you want, I can download the pictures and paste them together for you and save it as a .jpg file. It will be pretty big though file size wise so any email I send it to will have to be able to accept large attachments.

[countrygirlxxoo.livejournal.com]

Also, if you want to see street level pictures of somewhere today, there is website called www.vpike.com that will let you look and travel down street level roads (anywhere there is blue outlined on the streets on the map to the right). Here is the site for London, England. http://www.vpike.com/?place=london%2C+england

[leni-jess.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that link!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Google maps also does this - I didn't mention that because it's modern, I suppose! :)

[julieannette.livejournal.com]

Oooh map porn. Thank you!!! I love maps.

[hybridartifacts.livejournal.com]

mmmm....maps....always a treat! Thank you.

[owldark.livejournal.com]

Poverty Map of London = win!

These are great resources though, thank you! (mems)

My Roman history teacher at school had a massive map fetish - and I loved him for it. Every lesson he'd get out his big, old, dusty maps and hang them on the blackboard.

I developed an obsession with family trees. There was a point in time where I could tell you exactly who was related to who (and how) on the Juilo-Claudian family tree for about 7 generations.