Hello everyone,
I would have a rather technical question, I hope my post doesnt harm the rules. So I'm working on a project about 17th century journalism and a few "gazettes" of the time in Europe, and I would like to create some maps that show and represent some quantitative datas what I've obtained from my sources. Like highlighting the central places (cities) where the informations and news came from, or makes an assessment of this geographic location of information by country.
Do you know some applications/programs for this kind of work? Also I would need basic 17th century maps which show the country borders back then, and not an actual european map.
Thanks in advance for your help!
I've used a program called QGis to create historical maps. It's very flexible and powerful, but comes with a steep learning curve. If you have scans of period maps, you can project them onto modern maps using a process called georeferencing and then copy whatever details you need. Here is the tutorial I followed: https://docs.qgis.org/2.18/en/docs/training_manual/forestry/map_georeferencing.html