Special Issue on the Past Informing the Future: Applied Geospatial Solutions

摘要

Historical GIS began to achieve critical mass in the late 1990s and early 2000s with such major projects as the Great Britain Historical GIS (Gregory & Southal1,1998), and was made more visible soon thereafter largely through a book and a special journal issue edited by Anne Kelly Knowles (2000, 2002). Several books (Bodenhamer et al., 2010b; Gregory, 2003, 2007; Knowles, 2008b) and special issues (Bailey & Schick, 2009; Ell & Bodenhamer, 2009; Ell & Gregory, 2001; Knowles, 2005) later, we can now in many respects say that historical GIS has come of age.