Rivers and Lakes
description: The mapmakers place an outsize emphasis on rivers in their map design. Rivers are represented with solid black lines. The inclusion of even minor rivers means that a network of rivers seems to cover the map. In cases where state boundaries and rivers overlap, rivers dominate. Indeed, state boundaries are visually secondary to rivers, whose solid black ink superimposes over the dotted state boundaries. The emphasis on this natural features seems relevant to me because of the fact that a central tenet of this map’s argument is that freedom and slavery are fighting for control of the land. The importance given to rivers signifies for me the importance of natural features in the battle between slavery and freedom. When one steps back, there are very few features that stand out on the map other than those that are natural (especially in the form of rivers) and that which is political (especially in the form of state and territory names). This hierarchy speaks to the conflict at the center of the map’s political purpose. In sum, rivers are given a prominent place in the map design not because of any practical meaning to be drawn from the rivers, but rather to add symbolic meaning to how slavery and freedom fight for the land.
identifier: General Content: Rivers
identifier: General Content: Lakes
identifier: General Content: Black lines
identifier: Analytical Tag: Visual priority given to rivers
identifier: Analytical Tag: Natural unity of land

Map of Elbe River at Hamburg
date: 1738

Situations Charte von denen in den Elbe Strohm zwischen Hamburg und Harburg belegenen Insuln, und von Zeit zu Zeit enstehenden Sanden, auch Sandbancken--
date: 1750?

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Add a timeline to your Neatline exhibit
description: If you would like to activate the timeline feature: select "Neatline" from the dashboard view find your exhibit, click on "exhibit settings" click in the "Widgets" field, select "SIMILE Timeline" save exhibit

Configure your timeline
description: Open your exhibit in editing mode. Click on the Plugins dropdown at the top of the editing panel and select the "SIMILE Timeline" option. Enter a date into the "Default Date" field. This is the date that the timeline will automatically focus on when the exhibit starts. It is usually best to set the default date a little earlier than your first record. Have a look at the "Interval Unit" dropdown and choose the interval that works for you. (You can always change these settings later.) Drag the "Interval Pixels" input down to around 50. (This determines the width between the tick marks representing time units selected in the last step.) Finally, set the "Tape Height". I often use 25. This sets the vertical height of the “span” graphics used to represent duration events on the timeline. Click Save at the bottom.

Put a record on the timeline
description: Click on the Records tab and open the record you'd like to connect to the timeline. Click on the Styles tab, and click in the Widgets box. Select SIMILE Timeline. Scroll down to the Dates field set. Enter s Start Date. Use the format yyyy-mm-dd (for example, 2016-10-21). Enter an End Date (if appropriate). Click Save at the bottom of the form. The map should appear as a span on the timeline. Next, let’s configure the record so that it’s only visible on the map between those two dates (right now it is always “on”). Go down to the Dates field set and enter “1854-01-01” in the After Date input and “1905-01-01” in the Before Date field. Now, the map will only be visible when the “center” line on the timeline falls between those dates. Click Save and close the form.

Change the default zoom/focus of your exhibit
description: open your exhibit in editing mode click on the Styles tab pan and zoom until the exhibit is the way you would like to be each time you open it scroll down and click on Use current viewport as default Save.

Draw a circle
description: Create a record Click the "Map" tab Pan/zoom until you can see where you would like to draw your circle Draw Point Click the location on the map Click the "Style" tab Under "Opacities" reduce the fill to 0.0 Under "Dimensions" experiment with increasing the point radius. Save.

Draw a rectangle
description: Create a record Click the "Map" tab Draw Regular Polygon Set "Sides" to 4 Set "Snap angle" to 0 Toggle the "Irregular" box Draw on the map. Use the Rotate and Drag tools as needed. Save.