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¶19 January 2015
MoEML launches Experimental Map Interface (Beta)
![New Experimental Agas Map Interface with several location categories
highlighted New Experimental Agas Map Interface with several location categories
highlighted](graphics/agas_16jan2015_new.jpg)
MoEML is excited to announce the launch of a beta
version of our new hi-resolution, zoomable experimental
Agas map interface.
We encourage you to play around with the map and send us feedback on both its function
and design so we can improve it before launching it officially later this year.
Some of you might like to read the
Instructionsfound on the toolbar menu at the top of the page to orient yourself first. Others might prefer to jump right in and start experimenting!
Here are some things you might like to try, from the most basic to the more
complex:
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Using the slider tools on the upper left side of the interface, you can ZOOM IN AND OUT. You can also GRAB AND SLIDE THE MAP around, just as you are accustomed to doing with other map interfaces, such as Google Maps. You can also ROTATE THE MAP, something that might prove handy if you would like to compare the non-geo-rectified streets or features of the Agas map with other, more recent maps.
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Using the gauge on the lower left side of the map interface, you can ADJUST THE MAP’S OPACITY.
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You can turn location categories (such as churches, sites, or streets) off and on (in other words, HIGHLIGHT MAP FEATURES) by ticking the relevant category in the
Location categories
box on the upper right side. For example, if you tick thechurches
category, all the churches on the map will appear highlighted in purple. If you would like to select only certain churches, you can click on the expansion arrow on the right side of thechurches
category and a drop-down menu listing all the churches will appear. You can then select or de-select as you wish. If you select All Hallows Barking and then click on thetarget
button on the right side, the map will AUTOMATICALLY ZOOM in to that particular location and place it at the centre of your viewing panel! -
By clicking on the
Bookmark
button at the top right toolbar menu, you can BOOKMARK A CUSTOMIZED MAP VERSION that will include just the items in which you are interested. You can then bookmark this particular URL and return to it any time. -
More intrepid users might like to try DRAWING POINTS, LINES, or POLYGONS on the map for teaching purposes or to communicate with MoEML about the location of a particular building, for instance.
The possibilities are nearly limitless, so get experimenting!. We have built this
for you, so please play around and send us
feedback.
![Greg Newton and Jillian Player stitching the
map Greg Newton and Jillian Player stitching the
map](graphics/greg_jillian_stitching.jpg)
stitchingthe map
This new map has been a long time in the works. Associate Director, Kim McLean-Fiander, negotiated with the London
Metropolitan Archives to obtain the hi-resolution images in late 2013. Then,
over the past year, Greg Newton digitally stitched
the map together and made thousands of tiny adjustments. Project Director, Janelle Jenstad, and Kim also worked with local
artist, Jillian Player, to reconstruct missing
parts of the map. Finally, Lead Programmer, Martin
Holmes, did his usual
magicwithin the OpenLayers framework to create all the whizzy features now available to our users.
We hope you enjoy the new map!
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MLA citation
19 January 2015: MoEML launches Experimental Map Interface (Beta).The Map of Early Modern London, edited by , U of Victoria, 15 Sep. 2020, mapoflondon.uvic.ca/news_2015-01-19.htm.
Chicago citation
19 January 2015: MoEML launches Experimental Map Interface (Beta).The Map of Early Modern London. Ed. . Victoria: University of Victoria. Accessed September 15, 2020. https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/news_2015-01-19.htm.
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Joey Takeda
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Programmer, 2018-present. Junior Programmer, 2015-2017. Research Assistant, 2014-2017. Joey Takeda was a graduate student at the University of British Columbia in the Department of English (Science and Technology research stream). He completed his BA honours in English (with a minor in Women’s Studies) at the University of Victoria in 2016. His primary research interests included diasporic and indigenous Canadian and American literature, critical theory, cultural studies, and the digital humanities.Roles played in the project
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Katie Tanigawa
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Project Manager, 2015-2019. Katie Tanigawa was a doctoral candidate at the University of Victoria. Her dissertation focused on representations of poverty in Irish modernist literature. Her additional research interests included geospatial analyses of modernist texts and digital humanities approaches to teaching and analyzing literature.Roles played in the project
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Tye Landels-Gruenewald
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Data Manager, 2015-2016. Research Assistant, 2013-2015. Tye completed his undergraduate honours degree in English at the University of Victoria in 2015.Roles played in the project
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Kim McLean-Fiander
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Director of Pedagogy and Outreach, 2015–present. Associate Project Director, 2015–present. Assistant Project Director, 2013-2014. MoEML Research Fellow, 2013. Kim McLean-Fiander comes to The Map of Early Modern London from the Cultures of Knowledge digital humanities project at the University of Oxford, where she was the editor of Early Modern Letters Online, an open-access union catalogue and editorial interface for correspondence from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. She is currently Co-Director of a sister project to EMLO called Women’s Early Modern Letters Online (WEMLO). In the past, she held an internship with the curator of manuscripts at the Folger Shakespeare Library, completed a doctorate at Oxford on paratext and early modern women writers, and worked a number of years for the Bodleian Libraries and as a freelance editor. She has a passion for rare books and manuscripts as social and material artifacts, and is interested in the development of digital resources that will improve access to these materials while ensuring their ongoing preservation and conservation. An avid traveler, Kim has always loved both London and maps, and so is particularly delighted to be able to bring her early modern scholarly expertise to bear on the MoEML project.Roles played in the project
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Janelle Jenstad
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Janelle Jenstad is Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director of The Map of Early Modern London, and PI of Linked Early Modern Drama Online. She has taught at Queen’s University, the Summer Academy at the Stratford Festival, the University of Windsor, and the University of Victoria. With Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Mark Kaethler, she co-edited Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media (Routledge). She has prepared a documentary edition of John Stow’s A Survey of London (1598 text) for MoEML and is currently editing The Merchant of Venice (with Stephen Wittek) and Heywood’s 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody for DRE. Her articles have appeared in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Renaissance and Reformation,Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Early Modern Literary Studies, Elizabethan Theatre, Shakespeare Bulletin: A Journal of Performance Criticism, and The Silver Society Journal. Her book chapters have appeared (or will appear) in Institutional Culture in Early Modern Society (Brill, 2004), Shakespeare, Language and the Stage, The Fifth Wall: Approaches to Shakespeare from Criticism, Performance and Theatre Studies (Arden/Thomson Learning, 2005), Approaches to Teaching Othello (Modern Language Association, 2005), Performing Maternity in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2007), New Directions in the Geohumanities: Art, Text, and History at the Edge of Place (Routledge, 2011), Early Modern Studies and the Digital Turn (Iter, 2016), Teaching Early Modern English Literature from the Archives (MLA, 2015), Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (Indiana, 2016), Making Things and Drawing Boundaries (Minnesota, 2017), and Rethinking Shakespeare’s Source Study: Audiences, Authors, and Digital Technologies (Routledge, 2018).Roles played in the project
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Building a Gazetteer for Early Modern London, 1550-1650.
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The Burse and the Merchant’s Purse: Coin, Credit, and the Nation in Heywood’s 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody.
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Early Modern Literary Studies 8.2 (2002): 5.1–26..The City Cannot Hold You
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Lying-in Like a Countess: The Lisle Letters, the Cecil Family, and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside.
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Public Glory, Private Gilt: The Goldsmiths’ Company and the Spectacle of Punishment.
Institutional Culture in Early Modern Society. Ed. Anne Goldgar and Robert Frost. Leiden: Brill, 2004. 191–217. Print. -
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Smock Secrets: Birth and Women’s Mysteries on the Early Modern Stage.
Performing Maternity in Early Modern England. Ed. Katherine Moncrief and Kathryn McPherson. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. 87–99. Print. -
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Using Early Modern Maps in Literary Studies: Views and Caveats from London.
GeoHumanities: Art, History, Text at the Edge of Place. Ed. Michael Dear, James Ketchum, Sarah Luria, and Doug Richardson. London: Routledge, 2011. Print. -
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Versioning John Stow’s A Survey of London, or, What’s New in 1618 and 1633?.
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Shakespeare, William. The Merchant of Venice. Ed. Janelle Jenstad. Internet Shakespeare Editions. Open.
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Stow, John. A SVRVAY OF LONDON. Contayning the Originall, Antiquity, Increase, Moderne estate, and description of that Citie, written in the yeare 1598. by Iohn Stow Citizen of London. Also an Apologie (or defence) against the opinion of some men, concerning that Citie, the greatnesse thereof. With an Appendix, containing in Latine, Libellum de situ & nobilitate Londini: written by William Fitzstephen, in the raigne of Henry the second. Ed. Janelle Jenstad and the MoEML Team. MoEML. Transcribed. Web.
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Martin D. Holmes
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Programmer at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC). Martin ported the MOL project from its original PHP incarnation to a pure eXist database implementation in the fall of 2011. Since then, he has been lead programmer on the project and has also been responsible for maintaining the project schemas. He was a co-applicant on MoEML’s 2012 SSHRC Insight Grant.Roles played in the project
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Greg Newton
(b. 4 December 1966)Programmer at the University of Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC) who worked on graphics and layout for the site in the fall of 2011.Greg Newton is a member of the following organizations and/or groups:
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Newton, Greg, dev. Vertexer: Mercator Vertex Generator. U of Victoria. http://hcmc.uvic.ca/people/greg/maps/vertexer/. [This tool was developed by Greg Newton, programmer, Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC) at the U of Victoria in 2014. For instructions on how to use this tool, see MoEML’s documentation for encoding GIS coordinates of locations.]
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Jillian Player
Jillian Player was born in south India and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She has resided in Victoria, British Columbia since 1987. She has been creating art all her life and completed her formal art education in 2010 with a Post-Diploma in Fine Arts, with a focus in painting and video installation, from the Vancouver Island School of Art. She works with MoEML as a consultant artist, drawing in missing sections of the Agas map. Her portfolio can be found here.Jillian Player is mentioned in the following documents:
Locations
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All Hallows Barking
The church of All Hallows Barking is in Tower Street Ward on the southeast corner of Seething Lane and on the north side of Tower Street. Stow describes it as afayre parish Church.
All Hallows Barking is mentioned in the following documents: