Ian N. Gregory, and Paul S. Ell, Historical GIS: technologies, methodologies and scholarship, Cambridge studies in historical geography, 39 (Cambridge, UK, and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007), xi, 227pp;

摘要

The age of academic specialization has led History and Geography, the study of change over time and variation through space, to grow ever further apart. The promise of historical GIS is not that it will marry the two but that will facilitate a greater degree of poaching, a matter I shall return to in the second half of this review. Gregory and Ell further that interaction with their Historical GIS, a very useful introduction to and survey of the use of GIS in the study of past places which builds on and supersedes Gregory's A place in history: a guide to using GIS in historical research (Oxford and Oakville, CT: Oxbow; David Brown Book Co., 2003). The authors have deep experience in historical GIS; they were centrally involved in the creation of the Great Britain Historical GIS, the first great national historical GIS.