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 language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | 31st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2023 |
Editors | Maria Luisa Damiani, Matthias Renz, Ahmed Eldawy, Peer Kroger, Mario A. Nascimento |
Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9798400701689 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Nov 13 2023 |
Event | 31st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2023 - Hamburg, Germany Duration: Nov 13 2023 → Nov 16 2023 |
Publication series
Name | GIS: Proceedings of the ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems |
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Conference
Conference | 31st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2023 |
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Country/Territory | Germany |
City | Hamburg |
Period | 11/13/23 → 11/16/23 |
Bibliographical note
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Keywords
- cartography
- historical maps
- temporal analysis
- toponym