Historical GIS: Technologies, methodologies and scholarship

TL;DR: In this paper , a new extension was created for GeoNode, an open source geospatial content management system, that allows users to georeference map documents in a web browser.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a set of catasti geometrici storici, realised by the DICATeA at the University of Parma in Italy.

TL;DR: Mapping Boston's Religions: A Digital History Seminar as mentioned in this paper was a collaborative mapping project, in which students researched nineteenth-century sources to make a digital map of religion in Boston from 1800 to 1880.

TL;DR: The overall research goal is to reveal the mechanisms of cooperation among merchants that tied together the self-organizing commercial networks of the First Global Age (1400-1800).

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.