Truth and Accountability in Geographic and Historical Visualizations

Wallace, Timothy R.; Heuvel, C.M.J.M. van den

doi:10.1179/000870405x61478

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“…Using modern computeraided cartography, we answer Wiberley's (1980) call to "edit" original historical maps rather than producing facsimiles or placing historical data on modern base maps. However, we respect Wallace and Van Den Heuvel's (2005) argument for a need to maintain truth in how we visualize geographic and historical processes in cartography. When employing the commonly adopted approach of redrawing the past on a backdated modern base map, we run the risk of misrepresenting reality.…”

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Rescaling the Past through Mosaic Historical Cartography

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Rivet

2010

Journal of Maps

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Researchers of our past have long used historical maps to place events and to uncover the physical form of an area. A series of maps may be employed to understand a region beyond the extent of a single map. However, rarely are these maps included in publications of research findings. At best, a modern cartographic reproduction will be created to depict the research area. Our maps, created for a historical atlas of Sandwich, Ontario, Canada, are noteworthy for their use of original historical maps in a mosaic to recreate the past. Our objective was to overcome the international boundary between Canada and the United States, a borderland that has succumbed to vast generalizations on the part of the cartographers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through the use of ArcGIS, we georectified and fixed the extent of our maps, creating a series of maps that depict the changing urban growth of Sandwich over 200 years. This methodology can be extended to allow for the cartographic visualization of economic, political, social and spatial relationships that exist beyond a single map.

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Rescaling the Past through Mosaic Historical Cartography

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Rivet

2010

Journal of Maps

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“…However, sometimes maps seem to present an unreliable reality due to such factors as inaccuracy of cartographic technique, imprecise measurement equipment, deliberate or accidental errors, generalization, etc. (Wallace and Heuvel 2005). These factors can affect the results especially strongly when they are used to make measurements of quite small areas or distances.…”

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The history of Lake Rzecin and its surroundings drawn on maps as a background to palaeoecological reconstruction

Barabach

2012

Limnological Review

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The article presents the results of landscape analysis of the surroundings of Lake Rzecin in Noteć Forest depicted on cartographic materials. Morphometrical analysis and analysis of changes in the water conditions of Lake Rzecin were conducted. Thanks to many cartographic data, changes in lake geometry could be observed during almost the whole of the last two centuries. The results show that the major impact on the rate of lake level decrease in the last two hundred years was due to melioration works. Two periods of rapid decrease in the lake surface can be observed during this time. The first occurred as a result of the creation of Rzecin Ditch, which probably took place in the middle of the 19th century; the second, in all likelihood, with its cleaning out; the exact date of this operation is not known but the results of map analysis suggest that it could have happened between 1958 and 1966. Due to these two events the lake surface decreased by 73.6% during the analysed period. Apart from this phenomenon the lake surface area seems to be quite stable: there were some fluctuations; however, changes did not exceed more than 5%. That is why it can be assumed that the human factor has the biggest influence on succession rate of the lake ecosystem. Analysis of the map collection shows that during the last two centuries there were no huge changes in the local landscape; however, other historical sources do not confirm this. According to them, not only man but also fires and insect gradations had an enormous influence on the Noteć Forest ecosystem. Nonetheless, land use structure within the Rzecin Ditch catchment area did not change a great deal; the most significant modification was the increment of forested areas from 74.1 up to 85.1 %.

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“…With access to the Internet, community members are able to continually contribute to an atlas in a data format of their choice, including video, audio and photographs (Caquard, et al, 2009, p.87). A clear example of this is the "Views from the North Atlas", which included community contributions in a variety of formats including: historic and contemporary photographs, audio interviews, and video clips (Views from the North Atlas, 2015). The Inuit Sea…”

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“…This is similar to the space-time composite approach mentioned above, with the appearance of features being determined by a chronology attribute. For example the Lake Huron Treaty Atlas uses this techniques to illustrate the movement of survey teams based on historic journal entries, which are temporally queried using a slider bar (Lake Huron Treaty Atlas, 2015). Another method that is well suited for cybercartography is the use of animation to display temporal change.…”

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Searching for the Past: Archaeological Research Using a Multi-Method Geomatics Approach

Oikle¹

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Adopting a multi-method geomatics approach using cybercartography, a geographic information system (GIS) with fuzzy set theory, and remote sensing software, can overcome limitations encountered with isolated geomatics tools. Using Roman building practices as a test case, the strengths of each geomatics method were utilized to identify ideal locations for Roman fortifications. Cybercartography offered a flexible environment for collecting historical data, presenting research, and developing custom tools and educational aids for users. The combination of GIS with fuzzy set theory provided an improved analysis approach for developing a model of Roman building practices, and supported the successful identification of 36 known Roman fortified sites. Lastly the use of remote sensing software offered an extensive library for analysing multispectral satellite imagery, and was able to identify numerous crop and soil marks.

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Truth and Accountability in Geographic and Historical Visualizations

Cited by 10 publications

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Rescaling the Past through Mosaic Historical Cartography

Rescaling the Past through Mosaic Historical Cartography

The history of Lake Rzecin and its surroundings drawn on maps as a background to palaeoecological reconstruction

Searching for the Past: Archaeological Research Using a Multi-Method Geomatics Approach

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