Road networks in the past are imperative for understanding evolution of transportation
infrastructure, urban sprawl, and route planning, etc. Various approaches have been …

Historical road data are often needed for different purposes, such as tracking the evolution of
road networks, spatial data integration, and urban sprawl investigation. However, road …

Extracting features from printed maps has been a challenge for decades; historical maps
pose an even larger problem due to manual, inconsistent drawing or scribing, low printing …

Historical maps are almost the exclusive source to trace back the characteristics of earth
before modern earth observation techniques came into being. Processing historical maps is …

Old maps are more than a cultural artefact: they are data. Data about the past still hold value
for science and decision‐making today. Libraries and archives have come a long way in …

Researchers who use old maps to explore different historical periods and themes are often
facing a serious problem in terms of unavailability of their digital copies that are of …

Digital map processing techniques have enabled new computational methods to extract
geographic features from scanned map sources. These are mainly historical maps and are …

Geographische Informationen aus vergangener Zeit sind auch heute noch eine wertvolle
Informationsquelle für verschiedene Forschungsgebiete. Mit ihnen können die Entwicklung …