Historical GIS: Technologies, methodologies and scholarship

TL;DR: The article discusses the benefits gained and difficulties the authors encountered and the reflections upon a number of more fundamental theoretical issues, against which a case of legal cultural development, especially that of the newly emergent legal profession, is discussed to illustrate in a spatial perspective the complex interplay between the legal heritage and transplants in Republican Beijing.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors explore New Spain's sixteenth-century livestock ecology by drawing upon archival and field data to reconstruct the spatio-temporal characteristics of sheep ranches in a southeastern section of central Mexico.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze the literature from the following perspectives: visualization, organization, management, and spatial analysis of historical geographic data, and discuss the functions and influence of GIS in current historical studies as well as the problems and development trends of the current research; the goals of this study are to promote profound integration and innovative development between GIS and historical studies and to lead historical GIS research to deeper development.

TL;DR: This study examines the challenges in modeling archaeological sites using geospatial approaches, identifying factors such as site complexity, environment, human behavior, and technical limitations as obstacles to effective modeling.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a Historical GIS (HGIS) of the railways of Europe for the period 1830-2010, which is a response to the need to carry out spatial-temporal analyses in order to evaluate the territorial impact of the railway and its influence on the distribution of population.

TL;DR: The authors explores human interactions with Toronto's Don River Valley from the late eighteenth century to the present, focusing on the period of intense urbanization and industrialization between 1880 and 1940, and investigates how the valley's history informs current plans to “renaturalize” the river mouth.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess the relationship between patterns of conflict fatality and proximity to peacelines and argue that previous analyses have failed to fully take account of the ethnic complexity of inner-city Belfast in their calculations.

TL;DR: In this article, a case study of past floods, which impacted the railway network, is used to visualize punctual events which have occurred at the same place over time, and to display causality relationships between events in order to show domino-effects.