ALOV Map/TMJava grew out of cooperative development of the TimeMap^® software with Dr Ian Johnson and staff of the Archaeological Computing Laboratory at the University of Sydney, Australia.

ALOV Map/TMJava was started in November 2001 as an offshoot from work on the Windows version of TimeMap (since 1999), and is based on the same Dr Johnson's original ideas as the Windows version.

A more developed version of ALOV, styled TMJava, is available from the TimeMap web site www.timemap.net. TMJava provides many new features including temporal filtering, advanced layer control, rendering of TimeMap MapSpaces, and access to a central index of datasets developed for the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative www.ecai.org.