dbvisel / gazetteer

digital version of seasia place names gazetteer

gazetteer

Sources

• Original PDF source: https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/58233
• Tempo upload: https://archive.org/details/historical-gazetteer-of-southeast-asia

To do:

• accents checked through end of M, p. 64
• Move this to DSG:
  • https://v4.gatsbyjs.com/docs/how-to/rendering-options/using-deferred-static-generation/
  • https://www.netlify.com/blog/2021/09/16/run-gatsby-4-with-dsg-and-ssr-on-netlify-today/
• Make a page of all names that have lat/longs
• Make a map component

Data model

word |--id, unique ID (string) |--index, index in original list (number) |--original, the original entry (string) |--headWord, the head word (string) |--primary, if it's an entry or a reference (boolean, true if entry) |--rawLat, raw latitude (string) if it exists |--rawLong, raw longitude (string) if it exists |--rest, currently all of the entry except for the head word (string)