Megalith map

The people at Megalithic Portal and Megalithia have developed this MapServer-based online map to georeference and share information about megaliths and related monuments. The database is very rich and new content can be uploaded to improve it.

I think that collaborative online work such as this portal will be more and more used in the future to collect, check and share large amounts of data, also for scientific purposes. For example I’ve been thinking of implementing a webgis similar to this one to produce a database of sardinian nuraghes (I’ve been studying the intervisibility among these monuments but the available databases are poor, and since the number of nuraghes is around 8000 units – often located within private properties – it’s very difficult to carry out complete analyses on them). Perhaps I will find some spare time this summer, who knows!

~ by ege010 on March 20, 2008.