AWMC Map Tiles

The AWMC is proud to announce the release of a series of geographically accurate, publicly accessible map tiles, suitable for use in nearly any web mapping application or GIS software suite. These tiles are hosted on Mapbox servers courtesy of ISAW, and are created by Ryan Horne from AWMC data produced by Richard Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, Ryan Horne, Ross Twele, Audrey Jo, Ray Belanger, Steve Burges, Luke Hagemann, Ashley Lee, and others.

The area surrounding Miletus with different water levels based on time period

Offering the first (and at the time of this writing, only) geographically accurate base map of the ancient world, the AWMC tiles conform to the broad periodization presented in the Barrington Atlas, with different selectable water levels for the Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, Roman, and Late Antique Periods. In addition, we also model inland water, rivers, and other geographical features as they appeared in antiquity. The base tiles are culturally agnostic, allowing them to be used to represent the physical environment of nearly any ancient society in the Mediterranean world. In addition to the base map and geographical tiles we also present the Roman road network, generally following the Barrington Atlas with additional work by the AWMC. Like all of our other electronic offerings, our contribution to these tiles are released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. For detailed information on how to use these tiles in an application, please visit: http://awmc.unc.edu/wordpress/tiles/map-tile-information

These tiles are a “living” data set, and will be constantly refined to reflect the ongoing work of the AWMC, including the introduction of entirely new tile sets. We welcome feedback on any aspect of this work and we encourage the community to suggest enhancements, fixes, or any other comments.