History buffs and students are going to like WorldHistory, a new product from Utah-based Family Link.
The product is still in private beta, but you can get a good sense for what they’ll offer from the demo videos here. Use the map to find a location you are interested in and see historical events that occurred there visually. Set a date range and see just the events during those years.
You’ll also be able to add your own ancestors and genealogy information to the site, such as adding an ancestor that fought in a historical battle or other event.
If anything, it looks to be a cool way to access Wikipedia data, where much of the content seems to come from.
The company also says they are developing an iPhone application that will show you interesting historical events near where you are at any given time. That’s definitely a winner.
a interesting idea
Looking forward to its release
NICE! lets users view historical content by time, place, event or person
Here we go!!
This is a great concept, especially since geography and history go hand in hand. I wonder whether their database is connected to Wikipedia in any way…
A significant number of maps created via UMapper (map authoring application) depict historic events. It would be curious to see whether World History will offer public API.
interesting…
Yes, we will be offering a very robust RESTFUL API that returns the output in JSON. Just to give you an idea, here is an example:
http://www.worl...amp;apikey=test
This returns events with the keyword battle that took place from 1700 to 1900 AD. You could also pass latitude, longitude, and radius fields as well. Once the data is returned you can pass back an ID to return connected people and sub-events.
http://www.worl...amp;apikey=test
This returns people born around 1735 with the surname of Washington.
Just a couple of examples. We will have full documentation, PHP classes you can download that decode the JSON and build it into easy to use objects or HTML.