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Abstract
The chapter proceeds from an account of the cautious embrace of historical mapping in Britain to explain why a new emphasis on open source mapping tools provides an attractive and productive way forward for historians. More specifically, the argument is that such tools facilitate analysis of historical sources and that these can be understood and applied with a very modest investment of time while yielding new perspectives on a wide range historical data. Furthermore, since there is a historical dimension to most humanities and social science disciplines, the tools development by the Visualising Urban Geographies (VUG) project at Edinburgh University offer productivity gains for researchers in other disciplines too.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Mapping Spatial Relations, Their Perceptions and Dynamics |
Subtitle of host publication | The City Today and in the Past |
Editors | Susanne Rau, Ekkehard Schönherr |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 3-15 |
Number of pages | 13 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-3-319-00992-6 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2014 |
Publication series
Name | Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography |
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Publisher | Springer International Publishing |
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Visualising urban geographies: Developing new tools for integrtaing historical data and mapping
1/08/09 → 1/04/11
Project: Research