A special GIS application – military historical reconstruction

Geographic epidemiology of gonorrhoea and chlamydia on a large military installation: application of a GIS system.

OBJECTIVES The geographic epidemiology of infectious diseases can help in identifying point source outbreaks, elucidating dispersion patterns, and giving direction to control strategies. We sought to establish a geographic information system (GIS) infectious disease surveillance system at a large US military post (Fort Bragg, North Carolina) using STDs as the initial outcome for the model. ME...

The Great Britain Historical GIS

Although the first censuses were the only practical means of surveying a nation’s population, the development of sample survey methodologies means censuses are increasingly justified by the specifically geographical detail they uniquely provide. The same is arguably true of historical census studies: a two per cent sample taken from many millions is quite sufficient to study national class or h...

Great Britain Historical Gazetteer/GIS

Possibly the single most important commitment of the Great Britain Historical GIS project under its funding from the New Opportunities Fund is the construction of a systematic historical gazetteer covering the administrative units of Great Britain over the last two centuries. This is important both as a reference resource in its own right and to tie together our diverse but always place-specifi...

A Microsoft Excel Application for Automatically Building Historical Geography GIS Maps

The ability to visualize location and time information on satellite-generated maps using geographic information systems (GIS) such as Google Earth has enabled researchers with limited mapping expertise to use GIS for a wide range of applications. GIS holds special benefits for research in historical geography involving visualization of events and time-based changes in geographical information. ...

Sydney Timemap: Integrating Historical Resources using GIS