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1 Great Britain Historical GIS Project: A Vision of Britain though Time What are Places? Humphrey Southall (University of Portsmouth/ Great Britain Historical GIS)

2 Great Britain Historical GIS Project: A Vision of Britain though Time What kinds of geographical entity? Traditional GIS very focused on landscape features But interpretation of historical texts is about units and places 30th November 20112 Gazetteer Type Landscape Features Administrative Units Places TypedYes No VisibleYesNo Defined byExistence in landscape Legal establishment as corporate bodies Shared perception; mention in texts and discourse – “social tagging” Defined as(mostly) pointslegally defined polygons (mostly) fuzzy polygons

3 Great Britain Historical GIS Project: A Vision of Britain though Time Selected places near here 30th November 20113 DOME HOME Sun in the Sands The Valley Royal Standard Greenwich

4 Great Britain Historical GIS Project: A Vision of Britain though Time The Sun in the Sands 30th November 20114

5 Great Britain Historical GIS Project: A Vision of Britain though Time Sun in the Sands Rotary 30th November 20115

6 Great Britain Historical GIS Project: A Vision of Britain though Time Sun in the Sands as a place 30th November 20116

7 Great Britain Historical GIS Project: A Vision of Britain though Time Sun in Sands bus map 30th November 20117

8 Great Britain Historical GIS Project: A Vision of Britain though Time Sun in the Sands as a neighborhood 30th November 20118

9 Great Britain Historical GIS Project: A Vision of Britain though Time Sun in the Sands Conservation Area 30th November 20119 It is a bounded polygon!!

10 Great Britain Historical GIS Project: A Vision of Britain though Time Nag’s Head, Islington, c.1905 30th November 201110

11 Great Britain Historical GIS Project: A Vision of Britain though Time Nag’s Head today 30th November 201111

12 Great Britain Historical GIS Project: A Vision of Britain though Time Nag’s Head in Wikipedia 30th November 201112

13 Great Britain Historical GIS Project: A Vision of Britain though Time Nag’s Head Town Center 30th November 201113 It is a bounded polygon!!

14 Great Britain Historical GIS Project: A Vision of Britain though Time Elephant and Castle then and now 30th November 201114

15 Great Britain Historical GIS Project: A Vision of Britain though Time Elephant and Castle is definitely a place 30th November 201115

16 Great Britain Historical GIS Project: A Vision of Britain though Time England’s most deprived areas 30th November 201116 NB units are SOAs, so blame Dave Martin

17 Great Britain Historical GIS Project: A Vision of Britain though Time Jaywick versus Breckfield 30th November 201117

18 Great Britain Historical GIS Project: A Vision of Britain though Time Breckfield? No such place 30th November 201118

19 Great Britain Historical GIS Project: A Vision of Britain though Time Four features or one place? 30th November 201119

20 Great Britain Historical GIS Project: A Vision of Britain though Time Feature types in C19 Gazetteers 30th November 201120 PlaceFeature Type StringSource Gruinard, Ross- shire a bay, an island, and two streamsGroome Ripon, Yorkshirea city, a township, a parish, a sub- district, a district, a liberty, and a diocese Imperial Gloucesterparliamentary and municipal borough, city, market and county town, and river- port Bartholomew Burghead, Moraya promontory, a bay, a small town, and a quoad sacra parish Groome Laxey, Isle of Mana village, a bay, a headland, a rivulet, and a vale Imperial

21 Great Britain Historical GIS Project: A Vision of Britain though Time What kinds of geographical entity? Crowd-sourced extraction of names from geo-referenced historical maps are the obvious basis for rapid construction of large historical gazetteers 30th November 201121 Gazetteer Type Landscape Features Administ- rative Units PlacesNames on Maps TypedYes No? VisibleYesNo On the map Defined byExistence in land- scape LawShared perception, discourse Names on maps! Defined as(mostly) points legally defined polygons (mostly) fuzzy polygons (Offset)point s

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