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Tabularium in the Roman forum. My own photograph.

I read economics at university, with a minor in public policy and an unhealthy interest for classics with special interest for the late Roman republic. Professionally, I work in economic research with a focus on banking and the regulation thereof. Since when I was a bit younger, I was and have been uploading a few images here and there. Now that I am a bit older, I've also gotten a bit interested in making maps, largely of the ancient world.

For maps, I use the following:

  • QGIS (to create shape files)
  • GeoPandas (to plot shape files to SVG)
  • Consortium of Ancient World Mapper map tiles
  • InkScape (for adjusting labels etc)

Some of my code and shape files are public and located on Github.

Feel free to leave a message on my talk page.

Maps, language and shapes

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I'm a native speaker of English, with some knowledge of Latin and French. When it comes to maps of the ancient world that I don't intend to be translated, I try to put them in Latin, which remains the auxiliary language for classical studies. I'm not at all an expert on Latin composition though – reading and writing are different skills – and appreciate corrections.

As to the shapes on various maps that I make, I make no guarantees that they are consistent between maps. I value sourcing integrity more than intermap consistency.