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Ontologies of Place: What are gazetteers about?. 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.
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Ontologies of Place:What are gazetteers about? 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
England’s most deprived areas • NB units are SOAs, so blame Dave Martin
Argleton, the town that does not exist • ‘All Google is saying on the matter is that it does experience "occasional errors" and that the mapping information was provided by a Dutch company called Tele Atlas. And all Tele Atlas's spokesperson will add is that "I really can't explain why these anomalies get into our database.“’
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