The Geacron Project

GeaCron provides one of the most powerful geo-temporal databases in the world for History Research, Education and Findings Dissemination.

GeaCron’s mission is to make historic information universally accessible for everyone, through intuitive and attractive geo-temporal maps, as well as configurable timelines.

We have created a system to represent the historical events and the geo-political, climatic and demographic maps of the world’s political entities, for any given historical period.

GeaCron is based on a vector structured database. We developed a real temporal GIS system.

We have collected information from maps encompassing 5000 years and the whole world, using many different sources such as libraries, historical atlases, university sources or Internet.

Each border change, after examining the information contained in the mentioned sources, is supported, at least, by one historical fact that explains said border change. This information facilitates a possible rational and consistent modification of the maps.

This design allows the GeaCron database to be accurate, configurable, flexible, scalable and it facilitates increasing historical information, almost unlimited.The maps show the historical situation of the world at the beginning of every year.

Luis Múzquiz is the Founder & Director of GeaCron. He received his degree in Geography and History at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, in 1983. He worked for 25 years in the computer field.

In 2011 Luis founded GeaCron in response to an idea that goes back to the 80s: a system to facilitate knowledge of historical events that have taken place every moment in our planet, in an interactive way and on a temporary geographical map.