Francis Rooney Undergraduate Dissertation 2016/17

A Time Traveller's Map

Supervised by S.North

Abstract

The use of maps to display historical data is largely isolated to individual points in time. This projects primary objective is to create a historical tool that can show geographical data over a period of time.

Along with this, research is done into the main concepts behind working with geographical data and techniques on how to manipulate and work with it. This report summarises the main complication in this area and analyzes tools and techniques for implementing a system that can display historical data on a map, and evaluates the system created.

A system which could potentially be used as a tool for education in regards to historical data was created fulfilling the main objective, with work being done in using JavaScript libraries for manipulating the data, and the python framework Django for hosting the system.