Historical GIS: Structuring, mapping and analysing geographies of the past

Progress in Human Geography

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 638-653

  Gregory, Ian N ^a   Healey, Richard G ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Geographical information systems; GIS; Historical geography; Historical GIS; Spatiotemporal analysis

Indexed keywords

GIS; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; MAPPING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 36049035021     PISSN: 03091325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0309132507081495     Document Type: Article

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