It used to be difficult to get good quality maps on a website – or at least long-winded and expensive finding them and purchasing a license, or clearing copyright.<\/p>\n
In these Web 2.0 days it’s easy to get a good looking map on your website, and I’ve just done that for Vikings: raiders, traders and settlers<\/a> (one of the 25+ online courses<\/a> we’re running this term).<\/p>\n We provide simple maps<\/a> with settlements marked and annotated, as well more complicated maps with tools to investigate the languages from which town names are derived<\/a>, and detailed exploration of a town’s heritage of defense against the vikings<\/a> 1000 years ago – still visible today!<\/p>\n Visit the Vikings maps pages<\/a> to explore and learn about notable viking settlements through text, video and panoramic images, all linked up using the Google Maps API<\/a>, blip.tv<\/a>, and PanoSalado<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It used to be difficult to get good quality maps on a website – or at least long-winded and expensive finding them and purchasing a license, or clearing copyright. In these Web 2.0 days it’s easy to get a good … Continue reading