Mapping functionality is being increasingly incorporated into digital numismatic publications. The flash maps of the provincial mints were pretty hot stuff when they first came out on the RPC IV website about 8 years ago. They still look pretty good if you ask me. The ANS has started putting maps into most of its sites, the most impressive being the map feature of CHRR online. But sometimes you want more than one point plotted on a map and you want to choose yourself which points are plotted. I was pretty happy with the functionality of AWMC: À-la-carte map. I think my internet speed (DSL) made it a bit clunky or maybe it’s the new Turkish internet security initiatives slowing things down. That said, still worth it. My first simple test (featured above) was to put on a map the mints that produced coins that are hoarded with RRC 13/1. I couldn’t get Cumae on the map at this magnification and use full name labels. It’s label and that of Neapolis overlapped. It however does let you custom label points or just number each point to stop the overlap feature. I then just used the snipping tool (like a screen shot) to grab the portion of the map I wanted.
I suspect this mapping program is going to figure heavily in my lesson plans in future semesters.
For modern locations, such as find spots, there are a number of websites, Multiplottr is simple enough. [Why, oh why, has it become cute to name websites leaving out the last ‘e’?!] Here are the results from plotting, S. Giovanni Ionico, Torchiarolo, Oppido Lucano, Mesagne, Valesio, and ‘Campania’. Not publication worthy but certainly good enough to think with. Very fast and easy to edit.
Liv Mariah Yarrow 