Historical GIS: Technologies, methodologies and scholarship

TL;DR: The information system is designed to integrate and make interoperable digital resources, to ensure standardized and complex indexing, and to support advanced retrieval, according to the standards in use.

TL;DR: In this article, a historical geodatabase of the A Line of the Mexican National Railroad circa 1910 was created using satellite imagery, census data, historical maps, train schedules along with postcards and photography from the period.

TL;DR: In this article, two common techniques in GIS were used to spatially visualize human population censuses of Jempol district, Negeri Sembilan in the 20th century, and the available population census data of the district were transformed into choropleth and cartogram maps of population density.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors presented that the publication of Jacob Reinex's (agent of the Imperial Court of St. Petersburg) book in 1793 is associated with the European Ambassade of 1792.

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.