Breathing New Life Into Old Historical GIS Data
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https://doi.org/10.15353/acmla.n155.7173Abstract
Originally published as a blog post in geohist.ca, Jan. 2017.
Most academics who’ve written about Historical GIS have discussed the high-cost of building HGIS projects (Gregory and Ell, 2007). Building any GIS project is an expensive endeavour. Few, however, have mentioned the benefits of the ongoing nature or the extended length of some projects; and the long-term benefits of data projects Ontario Historical County Map Project (OCMP) < http://maps.library.utoronto.ca/hgis/countymaps/> and the Don Valley Historical Mapping Project (DVHMP) <https://maps.library.utoronto.ca/dvhmp/> are two projects that have benefitted from the long-tail of their existence in order to continue to develop and enjoy useful applications and use of the long-ago-built (or still being built) historical data.
References
Gregory, Ian, and Paul S. Ell. Historical GIS: Technologies, Methodologies, and Scholarship. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
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