… of history, as yet unheard of in some quarters. While only a small proportion of historical
scholars are using GIS … , the number of scholars applying GIS to historical questions seems to be …

… use GIS. She posits that historical GIS (HGIS) scholarship combines historical geography
and spatial and digital history with databases that record both locations and time, thus enabling …

… than 2,000 years of administrative history. In one particularly … maps built out of bounded
“polygons” and a Chinese spatial … earliest adopters of historical GIS, scholars interested in land-…

… , termed historical geographical information systems (GISs). The book argues that until recently
… historical scholarship was of a narrative form and that the recent availability of mapping …

… Readers of Placing History may be attracted to the text … GIS historians combine digital maps
with spatial data to tell … to the scholarship and creative use of historical GIS in this volume. …

… best place to start is by defining Geographical Information (GI). … how GIS represents the
world, concentrating on spatial data, … of a historical map that we want to use to create a GIS. The …

… Using this combination of attribute and spatial data GIS data combine … uses GIS as part of
the process of exploring change … Much historical data will be taken from historical maps, which …

… (GIS) to historical research, especially if we take GIS as … sub-title prioritises ‘maps’, then
‘spatial data’, leaving ‘GIS’ to … GIS software can assist in the interpretation of historical maps…

… historical scholarship and teaching. At the same time, the … to compare present and past
configurations of a given place … with other spatial data, requires that the maps be georeferenced. …

… from the GIS databases and turn it into new scholarship that … attribute and spatial data and
that the spatial data must be in … increasingly being replaced with the term “spatial history,” an …