In the article, a process of elaboration of a database on afforestation reconstruction in Nowy To... more In the article, a process of elaboration of a database on afforestation reconstruction in Nowy Tomyśl Plain in the modern era was presented. The aim of the publication was to share the materials acquired from old and current maps and written sources, which are used in the reconstruction of the acreage, borders, and type of the forest in the area under scrutiny. It can be treated as a collection of metadata, in which the methodology of each thematic layer acquisition and elaboration is described. The elements in the database can be divided into four main thematic groups: Basemaps, Settlements and Administrative Divisions, Natural Landscape, and Forest Reconstruction Data. The basemaps comprise the Prussian calibrated old maps: Gilly-Crons’ map (1:50,000, the end of the 18th c.) and maps in scale 1:25,000: Urmesstischblätter (first half the 19th c.) and Messtischblätter (second half of the 19th c.). In order to graphically connect the historical to the current data, the topographical map and a Digital Elevation Model acquired from Geoportal were used. The application also includes the settlements, administrative divisions: form the 16th c. (on the basis of the last HAP volume) and the 18th c. (reconstructed for the purpose of this project on the basis of the old maps and written sources). In the Natural Landscape thematic group, there is data on hydrography and afforestation dating back to the end of the 18th century (Gilly-Cron's map) and the first half of the 19th c. (Urmesstischblätter). The crucial objects from the perspective of the conducted analysis are those on afforestation. Their choice was based on the potential to reconstruct the extent, borders, and types of forests in the said area in the 16th century. Thus, worth mentioning are: data on Dutch settlement dynamics in the 18th c., potential forest area per a village, results of Archaeological Survey of Poland, onomastic information, or even the information on the vegetation type acquired from the written sources, and old and current maps. All the above can be analysed in the application, though they can also be downloaded if the need arises in the form of a geodatabase (*.mdb) and analysed further by the more advanced users.
The Usage of 18th c. Dutch-type Settlement in the Context of Afforestation Reconstruction for E... more The Usage of 18th c. Dutch-type Settlement in the Context of Afforestation Reconstruction for Early Modern Times on the Example of Nowy Tomyśl Vicinities
Progress in Cartography, Publications of the International Cartographic Association
The purpose of the paper is to present an ongoing project of AtlasFontium.pl which is intended to... more The purpose of the paper is to present an ongoing project of AtlasFontium.pl which is intended to serve as a platform for publishing spatially-related historical source data along with their cartographic visualization concerning polish territory. The text describes the main assumptions on which the web page was based, its current state, and characteristics.
Currently we can observe a substantial amount of research projects in historical geography elabor... more Currently we can observe a substantial amount of research projects in historical geography elaborated with the usage of Geographic Information Systems. It is no doubt that GIS provides a unified and effective framework for acquisition, analysis and visualization of spatial and textual data. However, the presentation of research process can be concerned rather challenging. It requires a large array of maps and charts in the final publication which elaboration is conditioned by paper size, limited colours and – last but not least – lack of interactivity. These limitations do not concern WebGIS platforms which allow researchers to publish all materials in the way they were created, i.e. in the digital cartographic form. The aim of this paper is to present on the one hand the project of the Dutch-type colonization process in 18 th c. Greater Poland and on the other, the possibilities of geohistorical projects' publishing on the WebGIS platform. Dutch colonization played an important role in the development of settlement network in Early Modern Poland as the colonists usually settled down on marshlands and woodlands therefore thusly significantly transforming natural and cultural landscape. Since the research is based on cartographic and written sources from the turn of 18 th and 19 th c, it is necessary to evaluate their credibility and indicate potential errors such as maps' planar precision, symbols' explicitness or data consistency between sources. Maps and manuscripts are published on the platform: source data as raster (maps are georeferenced) and output data (acquired from them) in vector format for spatial data and tabular format for attribute data. Semantic links between source and output data are also included in order to identify the origin of each set of output data.
The crowd-sourcing approach should be implemented into a new historical geoportal of Poland due t... more The crowd-sourcing approach should be implemented into a new historical geoportal of Poland due to its increasing potential in WebGIS.
In the article, a process of elaboration of a database on afforestation reconstruction in Nowy To... more In the article, a process of elaboration of a database on afforestation reconstruction in Nowy Tomyśl Plain in the modern era was presented. The aim of the publication was to share the materials acquired from old and current maps and written sources, which are used in the reconstruction of the acreage, borders, and type of the forest in the area under scrutiny. It can be treated as a collection of metadata, in which the methodology of each thematic layer acquisition and elaboration is described. The elements in the database can be divided into four main thematic groups: Basemaps, Settlements and Administrative Divisions, Natural Landscape, and Forest Reconstruction Data. The basemaps comprise the Prussian calibrated old maps: Gilly-Crons’ map (1:50,000, the end of the 18th c.) and maps in scale 1:25,000: Urmesstischblätter (first half the 19th c.) and Messtischblätter (second half of the 19th c.). In order to graphically connect the historical to the current data, the topographical map and a Digital Elevation Model acquired from Geoportal were used. The application also includes the settlements, administrative divisions: form the 16th c. (on the basis of the last HAP volume) and the 18th c. (reconstructed for the purpose of this project on the basis of the old maps and written sources). In the Natural Landscape thematic group, there is data on hydrography and afforestation dating back to the end of the 18th century (Gilly-Cron's map) and the first half of the 19th c. (Urmesstischblätter). The crucial objects from the perspective of the conducted analysis are those on afforestation. Their choice was based on the potential to reconstruct the extent, borders, and types of forests in the said area in the 16th century. Thus, worth mentioning are: data on Dutch settlement dynamics in the 18th c., potential forest area per a village, results of Archaeological Survey of Poland, onomastic information, or even the information on the vegetation type acquired from the written sources, and old and current maps. All the above can be analysed in the application, though they can also be downloaded if the need arises in the form of a geodatabase (*.mdb) and analysed further by the more advanced users.
The Usage of 18th c. Dutch-type Settlement in the Context of Afforestation Reconstruction for E... more The Usage of 18th c. Dutch-type Settlement in the Context of Afforestation Reconstruction for Early Modern Times on the Example of Nowy Tomyśl Vicinities
Progress in Cartography, Publications of the International Cartographic Association
The purpose of the paper is to present an ongoing project of AtlasFontium.pl which is intended to... more The purpose of the paper is to present an ongoing project of AtlasFontium.pl which is intended to serve as a platform for publishing spatially-related historical source data along with their cartographic visualization concerning polish territory. The text describes the main assumptions on which the web page was based, its current state, and characteristics.
Currently we can observe a substantial amount of research projects in historical geography elabor... more Currently we can observe a substantial amount of research projects in historical geography elaborated with the usage of Geographic Information Systems. It is no doubt that GIS provides a unified and effective framework for acquisition, analysis and visualization of spatial and textual data. However, the presentation of research process can be concerned rather challenging. It requires a large array of maps and charts in the final publication which elaboration is conditioned by paper size, limited colours and – last but not least – lack of interactivity. These limitations do not concern WebGIS platforms which allow researchers to publish all materials in the way they were created, i.e. in the digital cartographic form. The aim of this paper is to present on the one hand the project of the Dutch-type colonization process in 18 th c. Greater Poland and on the other, the possibilities of geohistorical projects' publishing on the WebGIS platform. Dutch colonization played an important role in the development of settlement network in Early Modern Poland as the colonists usually settled down on marshlands and woodlands therefore thusly significantly transforming natural and cultural landscape. Since the research is based on cartographic and written sources from the turn of 18 th and 19 th c, it is necessary to evaluate their credibility and indicate potential errors such as maps' planar precision, symbols' explicitness or data consistency between sources. Maps and manuscripts are published on the platform: source data as raster (maps are georeferenced) and output data (acquired from them) in vector format for spatial data and tabular format for attribute data. Semantic links between source and output data are also included in order to identify the origin of each set of output data.
The crowd-sourcing approach should be implemented into a new historical geoportal of Poland due t... more The crowd-sourcing approach should be implemented into a new historical geoportal of Poland due to its increasing potential in WebGIS.
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