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Historical GIS : technologies, methodologies, and scholarship /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2007.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in historical geography ;
39. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 227 pages) : illustrations, maps (some color) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780511378782 0511378785 9780511493645 0511493649 9780511372698 0511372698 9780511375309 0511375301 0511377894 9780511377891 9780511376047 1281243329 9781281243324 0511376049 |