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GIS for History. HistoricalGIS.org - Home. What Historians Want from GIS. By J. B. "Jack" Owens An increasing number of historians, particularly those dealing with world history or the history of large geographic regions, are becoming interested in using geographic information systems for research and teaching. Historians are noticing GIS because they normally deal with processes in complex, dynamic, nonlinear systems and, therefore, demand a means to organize a large number of variables and identify those variables most likely implicated in the stability and transformation of such systems.

However, GIS remains largely unknown among the vast majority of professional historians, and a significant percentage of those who believe they know about the technology think it is something they can buy with their next car so that they will not become lost. GIS and History I am often the only historian at geographic information science (GIScience) meetings, and my presence provokes the obvious question. GIS and Disciplinary Crisis Collaboration and GIS Challenges for GIS J. China Historical GIS. Overview | Historical GIS.

GIS Home AAG Home Contact Us RSS Problems logging in? Get Help About the Program Geography and the Humanities AAG Historical GIS Forum The forum provides an exchange center for historians, geographers, and others to network with each other and discuss research needs and topics. AAG members and nonmembers alike are encouraged to participate in the forum. Read More The Symposium on Space-Time Integration in Geography and GIScience A special Symposium focused on the research status, recent advances and research needs of space-time integration, modeling and analysis in geography and GIScience was held at the AAG Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA April, 2011. UVA Scholars' Lab project featured in recent Atlantic article HGIS and Spatial History projects featured at VUW's Spatial History Workshop Digital Historians interviewed in Southern Spaces Journal AAG Specialty Groups View All.

Welcome to NHGIS | NHGIS. USGS Historical Topographic Map Explorer. Great Britain Historical Geographical Information System (GBHGIS) | Great Britain Historical Geographical Information System (GBHGIS) The Great Britain Historical Geographical Information System is a unique digital collection of information about Britain's localities as they have changed over time. Information comes from census reports, historical gazetteers, travellers' tales and historic maps assembled into a whole that is much more than the sum of its parts. This site tells you more about the project itself and about historical GIS. A separate website, created by funding from the UK National Lottery and extended and re-launched with funding from the Joint Information Systems Committee, makes this resource available on-line to everyone, presenting our information graphically and cartographically. That site is called A Vision of Britain through Time and presents the history of Great Britain through places.

It can be found at www.visionofbritain.org.uk. Historical GIS Research Network. This list is not exhaustive but we aim to include all of the major historical GIS websites plus additional relevant websites. Other portals are also available such as those from: the GeoHumanities Special Interest Group of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, the Humanities GIS Zotero Library, and the University of Saskatchewan's HGIS Lab. Resources are classed under: National Historical GISs Other online Historical GIS projects Historical map servers and other data sources Organisations Software Other useful sites National Historical GISs: Other online Historical GIS projects: European Communications and Transport Infrasturctures: Performance and potentials, 1825-2000: Maps on communications and transport in nineteenth and twentieth century Europe. Digital Atlas of the History of Europe since 1500: Mapping Decline: St. Virtual Kyoto: E-Geopolis:

Historical GIS | The Down Survey Project. The Historical GIS primarily maps out the Quit Rent Office version of the Books of Survey and Distribution, with all their imperfections. It is not a definitive source on 17th-century Irish townlands. Overlaying 17th-century townlands onto 19th-century Ordinance Survey maps or Google maps is a challenging task. The process is ongoing and we really appreciate the feedback we have already received from a variety of sources. Unfortunately, due to the sheer volume of correspondence we have received, it will not be possible to reply to each email. Using the Historical GIS The Historical GIS enables you to search for the following three types of information: Implementation of Historical GIS The Down Survey GIS consists of three main components; database, maps and user interface.

Database Information is stored in a MySQL database utilising the spatial datatype accessed by a companion application programming interface (API). Maps User Interface 17th Century Roads William Petty's General Map of Ireland.