![]() ![]() ![]() The Element desktop app can receive locations but is not currently able to send them. We’ve been working on it, and are now very happy to launch the ability to share your current device location on iOS, Android and Web. So it should come as no surprise that our new location sharing feature is - absolutely optional!īeing able to share your location in a chat on Element has been a popular request for a while. A lone worker who wants the comfort of those back at base knowing where they are? Yes please.īut, of course, it can also be a massive invasion of privacy and yet another opportunity for data mining and more ******* adverts.īy now you hopefully know that Element is all about putting you in control. Ever tried finding your friends at a festival without location sharing? Impossible. Great in the sense that it provides an extra layer of safety and convenience to users. This lets me add markers containing text and images using the WordPress dashboard and provides some neat means for organising groupings into layers and for managing overlays.įor more information on using the map interface, see this page.Location sharing can be seen in both a positive and negative light. The base map can be accessed directly in a number of formats if you’re keen to explore it ( Google Maps/ Leaflet/ Openlayers), but for the purposes of producing the annotated versions I’m using to research and explore Romantic-period London, I’m employing a plugin called Maps Marker Pro. The tiled file produced by MapTiler is hosted on this site (which was built using WordPress). ![]() I added co-ordinates to my image by placing a large number of pins in surviving monuments and at road junctions while I’m not wholly happy with the alignment of the Limehouse Cut, in most cases, the correlation between the Plan and its modern equivalents is relatively good. The program includes a visual georeferencing tool which lets you to pin the map to a contemporary world map this adds co-ordinates which allow it to be accurately superimposed over other maps which use the WGS84 standard. A free version can deal with small files and adds a watermark to the maps produced for my purposes, MapTiler Plus was necessary. MapTiler is proprietary software authored by Klokan Technologies. png image exported from GIMP, I used a very straightforward piece of software called MapTiler to convert the image into a tiled map. A small number of minor transforms were used to make the images match up relatively neatly, but I did not attempt a perfect synthesis, partly due to the difficulty and partly as the map’s sheet divisions are interesting in themselves, so I didn’t see any particular value in trying to cover them up. I assembled the images of the individual sheets into one large file using the free GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP). tiffs and gave permission for the map’s use on this site. The library kindly provided images of the map’s thirty-two sheets as 250 dpi. The coloured copy of Horwood’s Plan used to produce the base map for this site () is part of the British Library’s Crace Collection, a large collection of visual materials relating to London collected by the Victorian designer Frederick Crace, now divided between the BL and the British Museum. Mapping Pierce Egan’s Life in London (1821).Select Views (1816) – Plates Slideshow (Eastern Division).Select Views (1816) – Plates Slideshow (Western Division).Microcosm of London – Plates from Volume III.Microcosm of London – Plates from Volume II.Microcosm of London – Plates from Volume I.Introduction to The Microcosm of London (1808-10).Modern London (1804) – Itinerant Trades Gallery.Modern London (1804) – Itinerant Trades Map.Modern London (1804) – Landmarks Gallery.Malton’s Picturesque Tour – Plates Slideshow – Vol II.Malton’s Picturesque Tour – Plates Slideshow – Vol I.Mapping Malton’s Picturesque Tour (1792-1801).Introduction to Malton’s Picturesque Tour (1792-1801).Mapping Smith’s Antiquities of London (1791-1800).Mapping Fores’s New Guide for Foreigners.Introduction to Fores’s New Guide for Foreigners.Mapping Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies (1788). Introduction to Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies. ![]()
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