Hofstra tools: story map and Web based mapping tools for teaching and research

http://hofstra.github.io/itinerary/plague-year/

https://github.com/hofstra/itinerary#fork-destination-box

2 working demonstrations using mapping technology to navigate historical data or literature:

• "Plague Year," which provides a timeline-based navigation tool to step through events recorded from Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year.
• Melville in Rome, which enables the exploration of possible routes taken by Melville in between events recorded in his journal of his time spent there.

use of :

https://api.tiles.mapbox.com/mapbox.js/v2.1.5/mapbox.js

a-frightful-number-plague is the name of a CSV file in the _data folder, for this project.

This Jekyll variable (events) is used in the body of this document to render the itinerary table.

https://jekyllrb.com/

The CSV file referenced above generates HTML in the body of this document as well as a JSON data file referenced by JavaScript code.