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Title: Creating Analytic Results from Historical GIS

Citation Type: Miscellaneous

Publication Year: 2005

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Abstract: National historical GISs (NHGISs) are expensive and time consuming to build. They have attracted a lot of funding in many countries and there has been a considerable amount of hype about their potential. In spite of this, knowledge about what an NHGIS can actually offer to historical scholarship is surprisingly limited. In many cases people believe that the main output from an NHGIS will be maps. Maps tell us very little and usually lead to more questions than answers and the main strength of GIS is not as a mapping tool, but as a tool for geographical analysis, or put more broadly, a tool that allows us to analyse historical data in ways that explicitly includes the geographical dimensions of the issues under study. GIS is a far from perfect tool for doing this. It is based around precise co-ordinates . . .

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Authors: Gregory, Ian

Publisher: Centre for Data Digitisation and Analysis

Data Collections: IPUMS NHGIS

Topics: Methodology and Data Collection

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