scholarly journals Reinterpreting space: mapping people and relationships in late medieval and early modern English cities using GIS

Urban History ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 384-400
Author(s):  
Justin Colson
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Spatial Patterns ◽  
Geographical Information Systems ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Urban Contexts

AbstractGeographical Information Systems (GIS) are becoming increasingly popular in historical research, especially in urban contexts. However, digitizing historical sources in a way that can be mapped using the Cartesian co-ordinate systems of a GIS is often challenging, especially so in the case of records pre-dating centralized property registers or street numbering. This article explores how the vernacular spatial descriptions used in several case-studies of documents from late medieval and early modern London can be translated and geocoded into GIS compatible co-ordinates in a sympathetic way. Translating this data from a historical spatial paradigm into a modern one unlocks a whole range of new insights into spatial patterns, networks and relationships which would not have been feasible to construct using traditional methods

Geography displayed

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Kain ◽  
Catherine Delano-smith
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Spatial Patterns ◽  
Geographical Information Systems ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Visual Comparison ◽  
Thematic Mapping ◽  
Do So

Professional geographers use maps to reveal spatial patterns in their data and to seek correlations in those patterns, although they no longer always do so by the time-honoured method of simple visual comparison of distributions on a series of paper maps. Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are founded on maps stored electronically. In most British geography departments, cartography has been distanced from geography. This chapter discusses the use of maps in geography, quantification and spatial science, maps and public policy in Britain, thematic mapping, compilation of atlases and reading of maps.

Geographical Information Systems and the Study of History

2011 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordi Martí-Henneberg
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Spatial Analysis ◽  
Geographical Information Systems ◽  
Population Distribution ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Transport Infrastructure ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Common Theme ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Twentieth Century Europe

The articles in this special issue are unique in their use of historical geographical information systems (hgis) to explore a common theme—transport infrastructure and its effects on population distribution in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe. Collectively and individually, they demonstrate how to integrate spatial analysis into historical research and how to bring a historical dimension to geographical analyses.

scholarly journals STREAM (Spatiotemporal Research Infrastructure for Early Modern Brabant and Flanders): Sources, Data and Methods

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 102-119
Author(s):  
Isabelle Devos ◽  
Torsten Wiedemann ◽  
Ruben Demey ◽  
Sven Vrielinck ◽  
Thijs Lambrecht ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Agriculture Industry ◽  
Local And Regional Processes ◽  
Regional Processes

This article presents the technical characteristics of the Belgian STREAM-project (2015–2019). The goal of STREAM is to facilitate and innovate historical research into local and regional processes through the development of a spatiotemporal infrastructure for early modern Brabant and Flanders, two of the most urbanized and developed areas of pre-industrial Europe. To this end, STREAM systematically collects a range of key data from a diversity of historical sources to provide a geographically comprehensive and long-run quantitative and spatial account of early modern society at the local level (parishes, villages, towns) regarding territory, transport, demography, agriculture, industry and trade, related to the development of a tailored historical geographical information system (GIS) based on the well-known Ferraris map (1770–1778). This article discusses the possibilities and pitfalls of the data collection and the construction of a spatial infrastructure for the pre-statistical era.

PROBLEMATIC ISSUES OF THE GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS USE IN SOCIO-HYGIENIC MONITORING AND RISK-BASED SUPERVISION

2019 ◽  
pp. 31-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Е.М. Studenikina ◽  
Yu.I. Stepkin ◽  
O.V. Klepikov ◽  
I.V. Kolnet ◽  
L.V. Popova
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Technology Implementation ◽  
Geographical Information Systems ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Electronic Library ◽  
Information Portal ◽  
Software Products ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
Software Product ◽  
Information Systems Use

The paper considers the problematic issues of the geographical information systems (GIS) use in the sociohygienic monitoring (SHM). We analyzed scientific and practical publications on this subject that are freely available on the largest Russian information portal of scientific electronic library eLIBRARY.RU during 2014- 2018, which allowed us to formulate the principles of organization and requirements for effective operation of geographic and information systems in the socio-hygienic monitoring. An analysis of the implementation of these principles at the present stage of development for the socio-hygienic monitoring system is presented, the results of which were used in formulating priority tasks in the area of geographic and information technology implementation into socio-hygienic monitoring and risk-based planning of control and supervisory measures: to determine the necessary level of detail and an information list depicted on electronic maps for the implementation of risk-based control planning; to provide organizational and regulatory and methodological support for the hierarchical principle of GIS within Rospotrebnadzor operating on a single software product of domestic developers for organizations and institutions; to work out the need to combine GIS with similar systems of other departments involved in the data collection of social and hygienic monitoring (Rosstat, Roshydromet, Rosprirodnadzor, Ministry of Health, etc.) to enable automated data export and import; to solve staffing issues to ensure customization and subsequent GIS operation; to provide budget funding for the purchase of licensed software products for GIS in SHM, preferably of Russian developers.

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