Historical GIS: Technologies, Methodologies, and Scholarship

Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 4
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Contents......Page 9
Figures......Page 10
Tables......Page 13
Acknowledgements......Page 14
1.1 INTRODUCTION......Page 15
1.2 DEFINITIONS: GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION AND GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS......Page 16
1.3 GIS AND THE THREE COMPONENTS OF DATA......Page 21
1.4 THE BENEFITS AND LIMITATIONS OF GIS......Page 23
1.5 A BRIEF HISTORY OF GIS......Page 26
1.6 GIS IN GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH......Page 27
1.7 GIS IN HISTORICAL RESEARCH......Page 29
1.8 CONCLUSIONS......Page 32
2.1 INTRODUCTION......Page 35
2.2.1 Vector data......Page 37
2.2.2 Raster data......Page 41
2.2.3 Comparing raster and vector data......Page 43
2.3 CREATING DIGITAL TERRAIN MODELS......Page 44
2.4 SPATIAL DATA AND ATTRIBUTE DATA COMBINED......Page 47
2.5 BRINGING IT TOGETHER WITH LAYERS......Page 50
2.6 CONCLUSIONS......Page 53
3.1 INTRODUCTION......Page 55
3.2 CAPTURING DATA FROM SECONDARY SOURCES......Page 57
3.3 BRINGING CAPTURED DATA INTO THE REAL WORLD......Page 61
3.4 PRIMARY DATA CAPTURE......Page 65
3.5 LINKING ATTRIBUTE DATA TO SPATIAL DATA......Page 68
3.6 ENSURING DATA ARE USABLE: METADATA, DOCUMENTATION,
PRESERVATION AND DISSEMINATION......Page 71
3.7 CONCLUSIONS......Page 75
4.1 INTRODUCTION......Page 77
4.2 EXPLORING DATA THROUGH QUERYING......Page 78
4.3 CENTROIDS, THIESSEN POLYGONS AND DISSOLVING:
TOOLS FOR MANIPULATING A LAYER OF DATA......Page 82
4.4 OVERLAY, BUFFERING AND MAP ALGEBRA: INTEGRATING DATA
THROUGH LOCATION......Page 85
4.5 DATA QUALITY IN HISTORICAL GIS......Page 96
4.6 CONCLUSIONS......Page 101
5.1 INTRODUCTION......Page 103
5.2 GIS AND MAPPING: STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES......Page 104
5.3 CREATING GOOD MAPS: CARTOGRAPHY AND GIS......Page 108
5.4 HISTORICAL ATLASES MADE USING GIS: A GOOD USE OF GIS?......Page 114
5.5 DISTORTING MAPS: THE USE OF CARTOGRAMS......Page 119
5.6 MOVING IMAGERY: ANIMATIONS AND VIRTUAL WORLDS......Page 122
5.7 ELECTRONIC PUBLICATION AND GIS......Page 126
5.8 CONCLUSIONS: MAPS AND STORIES......Page 131
6.1 INTRODUCTION......Page 133
6.2 SPACE AND TIME IN HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY......Page 134
6.3 TIME IN GIS DATABASES......Page 138
6.4.1 National historical GISs......Page 143
6.4.2 Changes to stand-alone features......Page 149
6.4.3 An example of exploring change over space and time......Page 150
6.5 STANDARDISING DATA OVER TIME: THE ROLE OF AREAL
INTERPOLATION......Page 152
6.6 CONCLUSIONS......Page 157
7.1 INTRODUCTION......Page 159
7.2 BASIC HISTORICAL GIS ON THE INTERNET......Page 161
7.3 USING LOCATION AS METADATA......Page 163
7.4 GIS AND PLACE-NAME GAZETTEERS......Page 167
7.5 CONCLUSIONS......Page 171
8.1 INTRODUCTION......Page 175
8.2 WHAT IS SPATIAL ANALYSIS?......Page 176
8.3 WHY ARE SPATIAL DATA DIFFICULT TO ANALYSE?......Page 177
8.4 ANALYSING SPATIAL DATA......Page 180
8.4.1 Point pattern analysis......Page 181
8.4.2 Spatial analysis of point and polygon data with attributes......Page 184
8.4.3 Spatial analysis and networks......Page 189
8.4.4 Spatial analysis and raster data......Page 191
8.5 CONCLUSIONS: QUANTITATIVE SPATIAL ANALYSIS, GIS AND HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY......Page 194
9.1 INTRODUCTION......Page 197
9.2 APPROACHES TO TURNING SPATIAL DATA INTO
GEOGRAPHICAL UNDERSTANDING......Page 198
9.3.1 National historical GISs......Page 200
9.3.2 Other quantitative approaches to historical GIS......Page 203
9.4 GIS AND QUALITATIVE HISTORY......Page 209
9.5 CONCLUSIONS: TOWARDS A FUTURE FOR HISTORICAL GIS......Page 213
References......Page 219
Index......Page 236