Historical geographic information system

A historical geographic information system (also written as historical GIS or HGIS) is a geographic information system that may display, store and analyze data of past geographies and track changes in time. It can be regarded as a subfield of historical geography and geographic information science.

GIS was originally developed for use in environmental sciences, military and for computer assisted cartography. The tools developed for these uses are ill suited for the features of historical data.

Techniques used in HGIS

Notable Historical GIS projects

Software or web services developed for Historical GIS

See also

Literature

Notes

  1. HGIS Germany (in German)
  2. Web site for the HisGIS Netherlands
  3. Web site for the Belgian Historical GIS
  4. Project homepage
  5. Announcement of the feature at the Google Earth blog

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