The Georeferencing of Old Cartography in Geographic Information Systems (GIS): Review, Analysis and Comparative Study of Georeferencing Software

Cascón-Katchadourian, Jesús-Daniel; Pascual, Jordi Alberich

doi:10.5209/rgid.76965

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“…As part of the evaluation process, we tried to work with the most accurate historical source material so as to be able to work with the historical state of the site based on georeferenced historical maps. The third stage focuses on working with maps in the ESRI ArcGIS 10.3 program [32]. The final output is to translate this more than 300-year-old Marsigli's map that shows no geographic coordinates into a real-time map.…”

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“…Hackeloeer, Klasing, Krisp and Meng [64] or Krejčí [65] present a review of methods and applications in georeferencing. Different georeferencing software is compared in a work of Katchadourian and Alberich-Pascual [32]. Worth mentioning are also Molnár [66] or Brovelli and Minghini [67] with their polynomialbased approach, or Cajtlhaml [68] who proposed a new solution on the basis of adjustment of transformation coefficients of all map sheets with the conditions that define the edge continuity.…”

Section: Georeferencingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Old Mine Map Georeferencing: Case of Marsigli’s 1696 Map of the Smolník Mines

Hvizdák,

Tometzová,

Iannaccone

et al. 2023

IJGI

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Historical maps represent a unique and irreplaceable source of information about the history of a country, be it large (historical) regions, individual geomorphological units or specifically defined sites. Using a methodologically correct, critical historical analysis, old maps provide both the horizontal and vertical analysis of a landscape and its transformation in different time periods. These maps represent some of the oldest, but relatively easily accessible, historical pictorial documents (plausibly) depicting historical landscapes. This study provides the methodology for processing and georeferencing old mine maps with the possibility of their further use for the purposes of mining tourism. The 1696 Marsigli mine map has been chosen for the case study in question. It depicts a cross-section of the copper mines in Smolník and shows in detail the process of cementation water mining. Through an analysis and a detailed study, two-dimensional parts of a georeferenced historical map have been plotted in Google Earth’s three-dimensional space.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Section: Georeferencingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Old Mine Map Georeferencing: Case of Marsigli’s 1696 Map of the Smolník Mines

Hvizdák,

Tometzová,

Iannaccone

et al. 2023

IJGI

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“…Transformation models are calculated from a set of ground control points (GCPs) that link the map to be georeferenced with a map of reference already georeferenced 22,23 . They are categorized into two main categories : global and local [24][25][26] .…”

Section: Georeferencing Historical Mapsmentioning

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Automatic extraction of former WWI battlefields from ancient maps

Paradelle,

Laslier,

DeCocq

2023

Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Hydrology XXV

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The former battlefields of World War I (WWI) provide an interesting framework for studying the long-term impacts of ancient anthropogenic disturbances on current ecosystem functioning. The 47 map sheets of devastated regions at 1:50,000 scale edited in 1920 by the geographic service of French army locate the areas heavily damaged by trenches and bombing, the destructed cities, roads and forests inventoried at the end of WWI. As they stand, these scanned maps are not usable under a geographic information system (GIS). A protocol was implemented on 5 sheets to compare the effect of two transformation models (thin plate spline and polynomial order 3) and the number of ground control points on the quality of georeferencing. A second protocol based on morphological operators, color space transformation and K-means clustering classification was tested on 12 different map sheets to extract areas heavily damaged and figures of punctual destructions. Neither significant effects of transformation model or number of ground control points were confirmed. The local thin plate spline method exacerbates non-natural local distortions linked to the research of ground control points and the simplification of physical objects on the maps. With polynomial order 3 transformation and 50 ground control points, residuals vary from 35 to 70 m depending on the map. The second protocol extracted accurately data of interest, with an accuracy varying between 0.31 and 100% depending on data to extract and their presence or absence on the map sheets. The resulting shapefiles are now available and workable in GIS.

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