This is still incorrecly formatted. The data is correct but the output needs to be corrected. I am on it
Plaiades Dataset "Places" as of 4th November 2021
The aim is to provide a searchable location file of well known historic cities (settlements). This file is not totally cleaned, not researched in detail, and will not be upated very often.
But the advatage is that it provides (me with) a dataset of city names that can be used in various other softwares.
From the source, I deleted details that is not needed to find and place a location. All that is left is:
- lat/long
- city name
- start-year/end-year.
I only checked a few places and they seemed correct. Good enough for my usecase, but I do not recommend this for scientific purposes.
Also - and sorry Pleiades Project - the whole dataset appears to be skewed towards "Western / European / Mid-Eastern" history. I do not see any "American" points, and "Asian / Indian / Central-East" points only if for example Acient Greeks visited there.
... I do realise that it should be called "historical places", but now I don't want to change the name. Then again, these places actually are "historic", so it isn't totally wrong.