DownloadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2024

Historical GIS

Technologies, Methodologies, and Scholarship

Ian N Gregory author Paul S Ell author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:13th Dec '07

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

Historical GIS cover

Examines the use of GIS in historical research, providing a clear agenda for its development.

Historical GIS is a field that uses Geographical Information Systems to research the geographies of the past. Gregory and Ells study, first published in 2007, comprehensively defines this field, exploring all aspects of using GIS in historical research and providing a clear agenda for its future development.Historical GIS is an emerging field that uses Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to research the geographies of the past. Ian Gregory and Paul Ell's study, first published in 2007, comprehensively defines this field, exploring all aspects of using GIS in historical research. A GIS is a form of database in which every item of data is linked to a spatial location. This technology offers unparalleled opportunities to add insight and rejuvenate historical research through the ability to identify and use the geographical characteristics of data. Historical GIS introduces the basic concepts and tools underpinning GIS technology, describing and critically assessing the visualisation, analytical and e-science methodologies that it enables and examining key scholarship where GIS has been used to enhance research debates. The result is a clear agenda charting how GIS will develop as one of the most important approaches to scholarship in historical geography.

ISBN: 9780521671705

Dimensions: 247mm x 174mm x 13mm

Weight: 486g

240 pages