новые библиотеки
16:39 | 17-09-2012 | Geography, History, Lifeform | No Comments
A map is a text, just spread out spatially or on many pages in an atlas going in all directions. I think it’s why I love them so much. While I love to read books, I really like that text going everywhere. It’s just the way my brain is.
тем важнее, оборачиваясь назад, суметь прочесть любые возможные изменения:
It will allow us to create historical gazetteers. A gazetteer is a dictionary of names of places. They exist now but the biggest challenge has been showing changes in names of places over time. It may sound a little arcane but it’s actually incredibly important for historians and genealogists.
In addition there’s the whole question of land use, human and natural. There’s a group of environmental historians in France who have used my Cassini survey maps that I have in Google Earth to measure in analog the entire forest cover of Germany in the 1700’s and then compare it to today. Today we get that through satellite imagery. So: land use, natural coverage, historical gazetteers, roads, railroads, all the information that is in maps that you just won’t find elsewhere because it’s either highly spatial or simply not around. The idea is that it would fill in the gaps.