Importing a different data source - the Doomsday Book

[the_redbeard]

So if we can import a properly tagged XML file, it seems like it is possible to import data from other sources into Realm Works.

The Doomsday Book (King William I's first census of Norman England) is online and available via a creative commons attribution sharealike (cc-by-sa license). That's nearly all of medieval England down to the manorial level. Their data includes info not actually in the real Doomday book like WSG4 coordinates (to use with googlemaps of course).

You can access the json data of each entry via an api: http://opendomesday.org/api/

So, theoretically, we could write a script to query the Doomsday api for all its data and spit it out in xml and then import that into Realm Works.

That still would only be the skeleton of a Realm. We'd have the names of 12,000 manorial lords but no other identifying info. We'd know how many peasant households on how many hides of land, how many sheep they had, who the feudal lord and overlord were, etc., but no maps of roads, etc.

You'd need resources like the stuff in Harn to make use of it. Some things could be extrapolated, so many peasants to support a man-at-arms, sample village maps, etc.

Still, pretty tantalizing as a potential project? Buy Realm Works and get all of Norman England at your fingertips. heh.