When history meets geography: The visualising urban geographies project

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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 languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMapping Spatial Relations, Their Perceptions and Dynamics
Subtitle of host publicationThe City Today and in the Past
EditorsSusanne Rau, Ekkehard Schönherr
PublisherSpringer
Pages3-15
Number of pages13
ISBN (Print)978-3-319-00992-6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography
PublisherSpringer International Publishing

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