Creating interactive historical maps of the world.


To run the viewer demo:

- Install necessary libraries, e.g.
  sudo port install py27-sqlite
  sudo port install py27-pil
  sudo port install ImageMagick

- Copy over the WHM SVG files into the appropriate dir.

- Build the sqlite DB:
  ./extract_all.py

- Convert to JSON:
  ./extract_rome.py > several_countries.js

- Create image tiles:
  convert worldhistorymaps/html/Wgeo.svg -transparent white rome-bg.png
  ./tiler/subdiv.py rome-bg.png

  Note the size of the expanded image and the original (un-tiled) image size in
  map.js.

- Load the map:
  historymaps/map.html