Nowy Korczyn is a small town in southern Poland with a long Jewish history and very little left to show for it. This project rebuilds its medieval layout as a drawn plan: the market square, the parish church, the streets radiating out toward the river, the lots along them.
The map is generated from a data file describing the town’s features, so each correction to the historical record redraws the whole plan rather than requiring a new drawing. The output is SVG, which means it prints cleanly at any size.
Why
It started as research for writing. It turned into a way of seeing a place I had only read about.