@terratempora
Cont.
Also the fact that many maps in many existing publications don't claim to give accurate info down to the specific borders & time, but a larger overview / illustrations of specific points.
All of that gets squashed down in their dataset and uncritically reproduced by your project
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@lavaeolus thanks, I'll add a disclaimer that this is an Amateur website with approximation in the border to simplify for most people. While continuing to fix the issue as I see them or when they are reported.
@terratempora thanks for engaging with me :)
But the issues run deeper than 'borders are approximations'.
It starts with the base map for example: Coastlines, rivers, lakes, other geographic features changed quite a lot over the last 5000 years, which had profound impact on people and where they lived etc. There isn't one single basemap that can cover this.
Did you think about this?
You owe it to your users to show what the source for each claim is. Simply "Cliopatria" is not enough
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@terratempora
Because Cliopatria is only an aggregate, but not the original source of the claims
In general: The reason why a dataset like Cliopatria and a viewer like yours didn't exist before is not because people didn't recognize the potential, but because it's very very hard to do the subject justice
@JubalBarca pointed you to https://whgazetteer.org as a starting point to see how other projects deal with those issues
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