Quantifying the completeness of and correspondence between two historical maps: a case study from nineteenth-century Palestine

Schaffer, Gad; Peer, Mor; Levin, Noam

doi:10.1080/15230406.2015.1029519

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“…Moreover, ongoing historical map compilation, ,− especially for cities in the global south, − provides the opportunity for long-term, large-scale (e.g., regional or national) analysis for past building age cohorts before the advent of remote sensing or other modern data sets. For example, a project has completed a set of geo-referenced old topographic maps covering 21 provinces in China over the past 100 years .…”

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Spatiotemporally Explicit Mapping of Built Environment Stocks Reveals Two Centuries of Urban Development in a Fairytale City, Odense, Denmark

Gummidi

Lanau

et al. 2022

Environ. Sci. Technol.

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The urban built environment stocks such as buildings and infrastructure provide essential services to urban residents, and their spatiotemporal dynamics are key to the circular and low-carbon transition of cities. However, spatiotemporally explicit characterization of urban built environment stocks remains hitherto limited, and previous studies on fine-grained mapping of built environment stocks often focus on an urban area without consideration of temporal dynamics. Here, we combined the emerging geospatial data and historical maps to quantify the spatially and temporally refined stocks of buildings and infrastructure and developed a novel indexing method to track the construction, demolition, and renovation for each building across various historical snapshots, with a case study of Odense, Denmark, from 1810 to 2018. We show that built environment stock in Odense increased from 80 t/cap in 1810 to 279 t/cap in 2018. Their dynamics appear overall in line with urban development of Odense over the past two centuries and well reflect the combined effects of industrialization, infrastructure development, socioeconomic characteristics, and policy interventions. Such spatiotemporally explicit stock mapping offers a physical and resource perspective for measuring urbanization and provides the public and government insight into urban spatial planning and related resource, waste, and climate strategies.

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Spatiotemporally Explicit Mapping of Built Environment Stocks Reveals Two Centuries of Urban Development in a Fairytale City, Odense, Denmark

Gummidi

Lanau

et al. 2022

Environ. Sci. Technol.

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“…In our analysis, we wanted to transcend such assessments to focus on the uncertainties that are dependent on the acquisition processes of historical data. Although these problems are very important for the conscious use of original sources, these issues are rarely discussed [61][62][63].…”

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Impact of the Cartographer’s Position and Topographic Accessibility on the Accuracy of Historical Land Use Information: Case of the Second Military Survey Maps of the Habsburg Empire

Ostafin

Pietrzak

Kaim

2021

IJGI

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Historical maps are critical for long-term land use reconstructions; however, quantifying the uncertainty involved in comparing historical maps with recent data remains a considerable challenge. To date, many works have focused on the technical aspects of comparing historical and contemporary materials, but the potential sources of uncertainty inherent in historical data remain poorly understood. In this paper, we analyze the impacts of the topographic accessibility and cartographer’s field position on the content quality of historical Austrian second military survey maps by referring to independent census data. Our results show that the topographic accessibility and visibility from the cartographer’s surveying table points had very little impact on the map content quality and that the surveying table point locations were uniformly distributed throughout the area, regardless of the landscape conditions. These findings demonstrate that the second military survey maps can be seen as valuable and consistent historical data sources, making them especially useful for long-term land use research in Central Europe.

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“…One potential limitation in using typicality features from historical maps to define a city center is bias introduced by the cartographer. Historical maps are often subject to the individual interpretation of the surveyor (Schaffer et al, 2016), reflecting their own scientific and geographic knowledge, cultural background and in many cases political ideologies (Brovelli & Minghini, 2012). Any temptation to include more detail in one area as opposed to another would bias the location of the city center as defined here unless, of course, that temptation arose because the area was known as the city center at the time.…”

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Tracking a city’s center of gravity over 500 years of growth from a time series of georectified historical maps

Alvares-Sanches

Osborne

James

et al. 2020

Cartography and Geographic Information Science

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It is surprising difficult to define where a city center lies, yet its location has a profound effect on a city's structure and function. We examine whether city center typicality points can be consistently located on historical maps such that their centroid identifies a meaningful central location over a 500-year period in Southampton, UK. We compare movements of this city center centroid against changes in the geographical center of the city as defined by its boundary. Southampton's historical maps were georectified with a mean accuracy of 21 m (range 9.9 to 47 m), and 18 to 102 typicality points were identified per map, enough to chart changes in the city center centroid through time. Over nearly 500 years, Southampton's center has moved just 343 m, often corresponding with the key retail attractants of the time, while its population has increased 80-fold, its administrative area 60-fold and its geographical center moved 1985 m. This inertia to change in the city center presents environmental challenges for the present-day, made worse by the geography of Southampton, bounded by the sea, rivers and major roads. Geographical context, coupled with planning decisions in the past that maintain a city center in its historical location, place limits on the current sustainability of a city.

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Quantifying the completeness of and correspondence between two historical maps: a case study from nineteenth-century Palestine

Cited by 17 publications

References 53 publications

Spatiotemporally Explicit Mapping of Built Environment Stocks Reveals Two Centuries of Urban Development in a Fairytale City, Odense, Denmark

Spatiotemporally Explicit Mapping of Built Environment Stocks Reveals Two Centuries of Urban Development in a Fairytale City, Odense, Denmark

Impact of the Cartographer’s Position and Topographic Accessibility on the Accuracy of Historical Land Use Information: Case of the Second Military Survey Maps of the Habsburg Empire

Tracking a city’s center of gravity over 500 years of growth from a time series of georectified historical maps

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