Oh this is really great, though this was always my plan once I had some sort of massive lottery win that enabled me to retire and just make maps all day, I'm glad someone else is getting the fun out of it.
:) Though I promise I'm not taking it personally, but I posted a few of these that I had mapped/ sourced myself on here a few years ago
:)UK with the five sets of boundaries for Neolithic Orkney, and full polygons for Pontcysyllte and the Antonine Wall ;)
Partial USACzechiaAnd all the Natural and mixed sites have been available for over a decade on protected planet (
see note from 2013 Livestream)
Creating the boundary files from scratch is fun but time consuming, I started doing them to fill my commute in 2019, then COVID hit and I didn't have a commute to fill anymore :) I did the Afghan, Algerian and Gambian/ Senegalese sites, but lost them with a frazzeled laptop. I started doing a few countries that I knew were going to be a long way off submitting full GIS data, thinking that Europe/ North America would probably already have heritage bodies with the relevant info already.
For the UK the relevant heritage bodies make the polygons available (e.g.
Historic England), Jasam has pointed me to a French site that does the same. I assume it is a similar case with many European countries. Though i note there are no polygons for the French/ Belgian belfries, I noticed recently that they have never actually submitted core zones, the
official map is just a picture of Belgium/ north France with little bubbles on it.I would be very keen to get polygons of some type into our maps, I will have to investigate how freely open and useable these new ones are, or if not it could be just the step of finding the relevant national/ regional body that supplied them in the first place.