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What are Places?

What are Places?. Humphrey Southall (University of Portsmouth/ Great Britain Historical GIS). What kinds of geographical entity?. Traditional GIS very focused on landscape features But interpretation of historical texts is about units and places. Selected places near here. The Valley. DOME.

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What are Places?

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  1. What are Places? Humphrey Southall(University of Portsmouth/Great Britain Historical GIS)

  2. What kinds of geographical entity? • Traditional GIS very focused on landscape features • But interpretation of historical texts is about units and places

  3. Selectedplaces near here The Valley DOME Greenwich Royal Standard HOME Sun inthe Sands

  4. The Sun in the Sands

  5. Sun in the Sands Rotary

  6. Sun in the Sands as a place

  7. Sun in Sands bus map

  8. Sun in the Sands as a neighborhood

  9. Sun in the Sands Conservation Area It is a bounded polygon!!

  10. Nag’s Head, Islington, c.1905

  11. Nag’s Head today

  12. Nag’s Head in Wikipedia

  13. Nag’s Head Town Center It is a bounded polygon!!

  14. Elephant and Castle then and now

  15. Elephant and Castle is definitely a place

  16. England’s most deprived areas • NB units are SOAs, so blame Dave Martin

  17. Jaywick versus Breckfield

  18. Breckfield? No such place

  19. Four features or one place?

  20. Feature types in C19 Gazetteers

  21. What kinds of geographical entity? • Crowd-sourced extraction of names from geo-referenced historical maps are the obvious basis for rapid construction of large historical gazetteers

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