Borders in historical research using GIS servers

Sydney Timemap: Integrating Historical Resources using GIS

Distributing Computations Among GIS Servers

Scientiic databases, including Geographic Information Systems (GIS), pose a number of challenging problems for system architects and implementors. Foremost is the amount of data to be stored and processed , necessitating distribution of the data at multiple sites and in multiple formats to be used by multiple analysis packages. However, the end user does not care about the complexities that res...

The Great Britain Historical GIS

Although the first censuses were the only practical means of surveying a nation’s population, the development of sample survey methodologies means censuses are increasingly justified by the specifically geographical detail they uniquely provide. The same is arguably true of historical census studies: a two per cent sample taken from many millions is quite sufficient to study national class or h...

Great Britain Historical Gazetteer/GIS

Possibly the single most important commitment of the Great Britain Historical GIS project under its funding from the New Opportunities Fund is the construction of a systematic historical gazetteer covering the administrative units of Great Britain over the last two centuries. This is important both as a reference resource in its own right and to tie together our diverse but always place-specifi...

Invasive Species Management and Research Using Gis

Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are powerful tools in the field of invasive species management. GIS can be used to create potential distribution maps for all manner of taxa, including plants, animals, and diseases. GIS also performs well in the early detection and rapid assessment of invasive species. Here, we used GIS applications to investigate species richness and invasion patterns in...