MapScholar: A Web Tool for Publishing Interactive Cartographic Collections

Abstract

We have created a fully functional, open source HTML5 visualization tool built around the interpretive tasks of assembling collections of historic maps for analysis, arranging them in rich geospatial contexts, and presenting them to viewers in dynamic and interactive websites that we we call digital atlases. We have disseminated this tool and its productions in a variety of ways and will continue to do so. S. Max Edelson has presented MapScholar presentations to a number of academic and public audiences; and Edelson and Bill Ferster have created a digital humanities curriculum at the University of Virginia at the graduate and undergraduate level featuring MapScholar (and other instructors have made use of it at other universities). MapScholar will be showcased and publicized though Edelson's forthcoming trade publication: The New Map of

Geographies of media and communication III: Academic communications and the digital communication environment

“…Most encouraging is the proliferation of online map archives such as the Library of Congress, National Geographic, the American Geographical Society (AGS) and MapScholar. Digital mapping platforms can allow users to extract images from multiple archives or dynamically create thematic maps from interactive databases (Edelson and Ferster, 2013: 84), activities that exemplify the creativity and flexibility afforded by digital media.…”

Se busca geobibliotecario: los datos geográficos entran en la biblioteca

“…Los datos geográficos en formato digital no son únicamen-te el resultado de las digitalización de cartografía histórica, cartas de navegación y otros tipos de mapas creados originalmente en formato papel (Badia et al, 2005;Solar;Radovan, 2005;Edelson;Ferster, 2013). A diferencia de los mapas antiguos, casi artísticos pero estáticos, los mapas digitales actuales son productos generados dinámicamen-te como resultado de la superposición de diversas capas de información a gusto del usuario.…”

Estimation of Origin-Destination Flows of Passenger Cars in 1925 in Old Tokyo City, Japan

“…There are some quantitative studies that have been carried out, including analyzing historical demography [20], the changes of urban structure, and land use from the past to the present age [21,22]. On the other hand, the number of studies on historical geography using the geographic information system (GIS) has risen in recent years [23][24][25][26]. However, these studies did not focus on human mobility.…”