Placing history; how maps, spatial data, and GIS are changing historical scholarship. (CD-ROM included).9781589480131 Placing history; how maps, spatial data Data that is represented as 2D or 3D images. A geographic information system (GIS) is one of the primary applications of spatial data (land maps). See spatial analysis, spatial resolution and GIS glossary. , and GIS are changing historical scholarship. (CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). included) Ed. by Anne Kelly Knowles Anne Kelly Knowles is US geographer, and a specialist in Historical GIS. She received her MA and PhD from University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is currently works as an assistant professor of geography at Middlebury College. . ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc., Redlands, CA, www.esri.com) The world's leading developer of geographic information systems (GIS) software, including programs that plot ZIP codes and addresses, demographic information and detailed, color-coded data. Press 2008 313 pages $49.95 Paperback G70 Historians are now using new technologies to locate events in places still standing or eroded by time, and old misconceptions, assumptions, errors and outright lies are falling away. This collection of articles and case studies gives students and professionals the basics on using such technologies as geographic information systems (GISs) and spatial data systems and methods and a good idea of what the results can be. Contributors describe teaching history using GISs, applying statistics to historical study, and using temporal GIS, and case studies include creating a GIS for the history of China, finding if poor farming methods resulted in the US Dust Bowl of the 1930s, analyzing the environmental impact of farming methods in early New England New England, name applied to the region comprising six states of the NE United States—Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The region is thought to have been so named by Capt. , locating the Roman empire, and showing what Lee could see from his position at Gettysburg. This would serve professionals new to the technology as well as students. ([c]20082005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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