Topomine: documentation

Topomine is a web application for exploring and visualising toponymy data in France, developed by Projets Time Machine. It aggregates several databases and offers keyword search with standard and regex query modes, revealing the spatial patterns underlying place names across history, geography, and linguistics.

Documentation based on Zensical, available at doc.ptm.huma-num.fr/topomine.

Installation

Dependencies

• Python >= 3.12

Virtual environment

Create a virtualenv

virtualenv -p python3.12 venv

or

python3.12 -m venv venv

Activate the virtual environment

source venv/bin/activate

Install Python dependencies

make install

Zensical

Serve the documentation

make serve

Build static site

make dist

Clean static site

make clean

Clean existing static site, build an updated version, including a zip archive

make dist-zip