Historical geocoding assistant
Historical geocoding assistant
Mertel, A.; Zbíral, D.; Stachoň, Z.; Hořínková, H.
The growing use of geographic information systems (GIS) and geographical analyses in different areas of the digital humanities highlights the need for geocoding, i.e. assigning geographic coordinates to records in a dataset. Such spatially-referenced datasets are a precondition for any spatial analysis and visualization. While GIS in general is a dynamically evolving branch of software development, there is a need for specialized applications which would assist researchers in geocoding datasets in history, archaeology, and the digital humanities. Therefore, we developed the “Historical Geocoding Assistant”, an open-source web tool that meets the specific needs of historical research and brings a solution to geocoding historical data in a convenient, fast, and reliable way.
Keywords: geocoding; geohumanities
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SoftwareX 14(2021), 100682
DOI: 10.1016/j.softx.2021.100682
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