An Automatic Approach to Finding Geographic Name Changes on Historical Maps

Rhett M. Olson, Jina Kim, Yao Yi Chiang

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Abstract

Changes in place names offer insight into regions' culture, politics, and geographical characteristics. This paper proposes an automatic approach to generate time-sequenced maps that show place name changes on a large number of maps from different time periods. The proposed approach utilizes gazetteers (i.e., indexes for geographic names) to retrieve a place's coordinates and name variants and searches for text labels from maps matching those coordinates and names. The resulting maps give rich, visual insights into how place names change over time and could facilitate historians' investigation of geographic name changes at a large scale.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication31st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2023
EditorsMaria Luisa Damiani, Matthias Renz, Ahmed Eldawy, Peer Kroger, Mario A. Nascimento
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Electronic)9798400701689
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 13 2023
Event31st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2023 - Hamburg, Germany
Duration: Nov 13 2023Nov 16 2023

Publication series

NameGIS: Proceedings of the ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems

Conference

Conference31st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2023
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityHamburg
Period11/13/2311/16/23

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Keywords

  • cartography
  • historical maps
  • temporal analysis
  • toponym

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