Map Making Hits New Heights

The New York Times runs a fun article on how GIS mapping technology is altering the humanities:

Historians, literary theorists, archaeologists and others are using Geographic Information Systems — software that displays and analyzes information related to a physical location — to re-examine real and fictional places like the villages around Salem, Mass., at the time of the witch trials; the Dust Bowl region devastated during the Great Depression; and the Eastcheap taverns where Shakespeare’s Falstaff and Prince Hal caroused.

The map of Gettysburg is especially cool.

Steve Clowney