Historical GIS Research in Canada

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...

Sydney Timemap: Integrating Historical Resources using GIS

Web-based Multimedia Gis for Historical Sites

With the recent developments in web-based GIS applications, the process of accessing, sharing, disseminating and analyzing data has changed. Web-based GIS uses the Internet to access and transmit data and the analysis tools to enhance the visualization and integration of spatial data. Multimedia GIS also allows the users to access a wide range of multimedia data. Integration of webbased GIS and...

Historical GIS - Examples from the Creswick Goldfields

This paper presents an overview of Geographical Information System (GIS) applications currently being utilized in an historical archaeology research project supported by La Trobe University. This work is the first stage of a broader study titled “Cultural Landscapes of Colonial Water Management in Victoria’s Central Highlands”, funded by the Australian Research Council (DP110100437). The curren...