Mapping Medieval Chester

There’s still some final work to be done on the website before it’s complete – and it won’t ever be completely ‘finished’ or static as we aim to add to it and develop it in future, primarily via the blog and discussions here, but also through the addition of further resources. At the moment, we want to do some further work on the digital maps, improving speed, sorting the zoom function (low bandwidth) and allowing users to move from the locations in the atlas (high bandwidth version) to the texts, via the ‘Place’ index. We’re also planning to build an additional map which can be overlaid with Google Maps, to give a better idea of the relation between the medieval and modern city, and to incorporate the layer of photos from Flickr which give snapshots of medieval locations in the city today (more about that in the next post!).

Those of you who joined us at the colloquium in Swansea have heard some discussion of what we aimed to achieve in these digital resources and the kind of functionality we’ve tried to develop. I wanted to include some reflections here on the methods and processes which we brought to the website.

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