Transcript Mapping Migration in Macedonia

Martyn Jessop, King’s College London.
Email: [email protected]
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The Project
• Project Description
• Budget £5000.
• Pilot project – establish approaches,
techniques and novel solutions.
• One of a group of spatial data projects
within the Centre for Computing in the
Humanities (CCH).
• Did not involve GIS specialists.
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Location of Kastoria
Romania
Former
Yugoslavia
Italy
Bulgaria
Albania
Greece
Turkey
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Dividing Time
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Sources and ‘Products’
Digital Resource
for General Use
Legacy
Database
Geographical Maps
Web Site
Information
Paper Maps
System
Archive
Existing
Multimedia
Presentation
Documents
GIS for use by
academics at museum
Old Photos
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Presentation of Maps on the Web
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Static image files.
Image Library software.
Limited Interactivity (Image Maps, Java).
Animated sequences of maps.
Medium Interactivity (Geotools)
Fully Interactive GIS
What’s used in the project?
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The aims of the GIS
• Preserve the database and open it to a wider
audience via the web.
• Produce maps for the website.
• Desktop GIS for academics (MapInfo)
- move from map drawing to analysis.
- visualisation tool.
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Data Flow Through the Project
Location
Data
(Paper
Maps)
Attribute
Data
(legacy
database)
Desktop A4
Size Scanner
On Screen
Digitisation
Static Maps
(produces image
files)
Microsoft
Excel
(Preprocessing
and further
data
generation)
Mapinfo
Image Maps
Map Drawing
Animations
(Javascript)
Future Simple Web-based GIS??
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Spatial and Attribute Data
120 Villages.
50 Data items per village.
6000 items.
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Additional Geographic Data
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Maps from GIS
• Summaries of data – population etc. Example
• Location of events – exchanges, violence,
etc. Example
• Data access. Example
• Exploratory.
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Exploratory Maps
Animation Example
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What happened 1900-1905?
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Experiences of the Project
Views and aims changed substantially during project
• There are novel solutions to cartographic
problems utilising the Web.
• Even simple maps are (very) useful.
• Levels of expertise/experience required
• Cost need not be high.
• Expect to digitize.
• Use ‘multi-application’ approach
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Experiences of the project (II)
• Must keep data well organised.
• Tyranny of the Web site – keep to project
objectives.
• Keep notes about processes and progress.
• It’s about people not phenomena.
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GIS in the Humanities
• Designed by scientists for scientists - philosophy
is fundamentally different.
• Can GIS link human agency to change?
• Problems with generalisation and uncertainty.
• Is it worth it?
• What’s next
- web based toolkit (open souce)
- wider role for CCH?
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