[sotd] The Interactive Nolli Map Website -- Rome [March 12, 2009]

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Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:10:10 -0300
        Site of the Day for Thursday, March 12, 2009

        The Interactive Nolli Map Website -- Rome

Today's site, from the University of Oregon, offers the famous 18th century 
Nolli
map of the city of Rome in an interactive presentation. Gentle Subscribers will
find a wealth of readily accessible historical information on Rome.

"In 1748 Giambattista Nolli created a Map of Rome that is still regarded as one 
of
the most significant documented records of the Eternal City. This website
resurrects the map and gives it an interactive face, allowing students,
cartographers and others to study it from an entirely new angle. ... The Map 
Engine
may be accessed from any page of the website, allowing you to navigate through 
the
city at a variety of scales. Using the Map Engine, the user can pan in any
direction and zoom in or out from the macro-scale of the city to the 
micro-scale of
the building. Layers have been created to focus on particular topics, for 
example
'gardens'. ... Layers may be turned on and off, and blended with map ... to 
provide
for the best viewing conditions." - from the website

Along with the map itself, the site highlights a number of themes comprising
natural characteristics and landscape elements, architecture and urban design,
social factors and cartography. Among the presentation's special features are
essays dealing with how urban forms relate to the overall life of the city, an
exploration of the more unassuming institutions such as schools, hospitals and
prisons, as well as the famous churches and palaces, and a consideration of the
geographical and hydrographic elements. Also included is an Italian glossary to
facilitate understanding of the map notations for the non-specialist and a
sophisticated index system to allow easy access to the more than 1300 locations 
on
the original document.

Journey to the site for a notable resource on the city of Rome at:

http://nolli.uoregon.edu/preface.html

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