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Historical GIS is an emerging field that uses Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to research the geographies of the past. Ian Gregory and Paul Ell present the first study comprehensively to define this emerging 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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Book category Books in English Humanities History History: specific events & topics

• Full title: Historical GIS
• Subtitle: Technologies, Methodologies, and Scholarship
• Author: Ian N. GregoryPaul S. Ell
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 240
• EAN: 9780521855631
• ISBN: 0521855632
• ID: 02047331
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 630 g
• Dimensions: 253 × 180 × 12 mm
• Date of publishing: 13. December 2007

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