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Ontologies of Place: What are gazetteers about?

Ontologies of Place: What are gazetteers about?. Humphrey Southall (University of Portsmouth/ Great Britain Historical GIS). What kinds of geographical entity?. Traditional GIS very focused on landscape features But interpretation of historical texts is about units and places.

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Ontologies of Place: What are gazetteers about?

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  1. Ontologies of Place:What are gazetteers about? Humphrey Southall(University of Portsmouth/Great Britain Historical GIS)

  2. What kinds of geographical entity? • Traditional GIS very focused on landscape features • But interpretation of historical texts is about units and places

  3. England’s most deprived areas • NB units are SOAs, so blame Dave Martin

  4. Jaywick versus Breckfield

  5. Breckfield? No such place

  6. Argleton, the town that does not exist • ‘All Google is saying on the matter is that it does experience "occasional errors" and that the mapping information was provided by a Dutch company called Tele Atlas. And all Tele Atlas's spokesperson will add is that "I really can't explain why these anomalies get into our database.“’

  7. The Sun in the Sands

  8. Sun in the Sands Rotary

  9. Sun in the Sands as a place

  10. Sun in Sands bus map

  11. Sun in the Sands as a neighborhood

  12. Nag’s Head, Islington, c.1905

  13. Nag’s Head today

  14. Nag’s Head in Wikipedia

  15. Nag’s Head Town Center

  16. Elephant and Castle then and now

  17. Elephant and Castle is definitely a place

  18. Four features or one place?

  19. Feature types in C19 Gazetteers

  20. What kinds of geographical entity? • Crowd-sourced extraction of names from geo-referenced historical maps are the obvious basis for rapid construction of large historical gazetteers

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