Archaeologists from USC, UCLA and the Middle East have developed a searchable online map that details 7,000 archeological sites on the West Bank and Jerusalem - many of them never publicy disclosed. The map - an effort to identify Israeli archaeological activity since 1967, when Israel took over the West Bank and East Jerusalem - is freely accesibly online at the USC's Digital Library.
Built over several years through hundreds of hours of research, bolstered by freedom of information requests and, when necessary, a lawsuit in Israeli courts, the Web site provides interactive satellite maps showing locations of about 7,000 archaeological sites in the region, including:
Saudi Arabia inaugurated its King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) last week. This new campus - holding just 400 students - on the Red Sea contains some very impressive visualisation facilities at KAUST which were prototyped in Calit2's VirtuLab at UC San Diego.
Archaeologist Tom Levy - Professor at the University of California and Associate Director of Calit2’s Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture and Archaeology (CISA3) - demonstrated how he can use CORNEA and the StarCAVE to explore a 3,000-year-old dig site in southern Jordan, complete with sound effects that imitate the actual sound of descending deep into an excavated shaft where the archaeologist found artifacts (represented in CORNEA at the precise geographic locations and depths where they were excavated). These are my two favourite videos from the 'displays and VR systems for archaeology' demonstration.
Google Maps do not display latitude and longitude values, but there is an easy & quick trick to get these numbers. This technique will provide the latitude and longitude coordinates of the center of the map displayed by Google Maps.
Looking up an address in Google Maps will center the map on that address if it was found. If you wish to navigate your Google Map later, refocus the center of your map on the exact point you want the geolocation information for, by double clicking that area of the map.
When the location you want is in the center of the map, copy and paste this code into the location bar of your browser and press enter:
A little dialog box will pop up displaying the coordinates which can be copied and pasted for use elsewhere. This code can be bookmarked and then used in the future by selecting the bookmark.
Archaeologists from USC, UCLA and the Middle East have developed a searchable online map that details 7,000 archeological sites on the West Bank and Jerusalem - many of them never publicy disclosed. The map - an effort to identify Israeli archaeological activity since 1967, when Israel took over the West Bank and East Jerusalem - is freely accesibly online at the USC's Digital Library.
Saudi Arabia inaugurated its King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) last week. This new campus - holding just 400 students - on the Red Sea contains some very impressive visualisation facilities at KAUST which were prototyped in Calit2's VirtuLab at UC San Diego.
Google Maps do not display latitude and longitude values, but there is an easy & quick trick to get these numbers. This technique will provide the latitude and longitude coordinates of the center of the map displayed by Google Maps.
