Rescaling the Past through Mosaic Historical Cartography

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ID16840253
AuthorsDonald Lafreniere (Western University), Douglas Rivet (Western Michigan University)
Year2010
Volume6
Issue1
Pages417-422
Publication date2010-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Maps (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1744-5647 • E-ISSN: 1744-5647
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4113/jom.2010.1120
OpenAlexW2002533076
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited3

Please click here to download the map associated with this article. 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

Archaeology · Cartography · Data mining · Download · Geography · Georeference · Mosaic · Physical geography · Regional science · Visualization · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Geographic Information Systems Studies · Historical Geography and Cartography · Geology

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