FUTURE FOUNDATIONS: MAPPING THE PAST
Links to Projects and Info
The following is a list of links recommended by panelists and speakers at the Future Foundations: Mapping the Past symposium organized for the planning of the Greater Philadelphia GeoHistory Network. Additional links have been contributed by advisory committee members, all with the goal of providing a wide survey of existing GIS, history, and historical GIS resources for study.
| General GIS References | |
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| Recomended by | Reference |
| Merrick Lex Berman | China Historical GIS |
| Electronic Cultural Atlas | |
| Harvard Geospatial Library | |
| Berkeley Mapper | |
| TimeMap | |
| Going Places in the Catalog | |
| Map Junction (Boston Atlas) | |
| Lloyd Benson | Secession Era Editorials Project (with "proof of concept" mapping interface) |
| Historical United States County Boundary Files (HUSCO) |
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| Newberry Library Atlas of Historic County Boundaries |
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| UVA, Valley of the Shadow Project | |
| Perseus Digital Library Interactive Digital Atlas |
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| John Hutchinson | Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation |
| Diana Stuart Sinton | NITLE's GIS Initiative |
| A good example of how to organize/distribute digital assets with a geographical search: Harvard's Geospatial Library | |
| Mark Lecher | ESRI Homepage |
| National Ocean Service, NOAA: Historical chart project |
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| Pennsylvania GIS References | |
| Recomended by | Reference |
| Noel Strattan | CRGIS is a map-based inventory of the historic and archaeological sites and surveys stored in the files of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.Access. |
| Philadelphia GIS References | |
| Recomended by | Reference |
| Domenic Vitiello | Design competition for the reuse of vacant land in Philadelphia organized by the City Parks Association. (GIS layers provided by the Cartographic Modeling Lab at Penn). |
| Adam Levine's site on Philadelphia creeks, sewers, and development history. | |
| Robert Cheetham | PhillyHistory |
| Phila HistoricStreets | |
| Phila Print Index | |
| Dennis Culhane | Cartographic Modeling Lab provides access to Philadelphia-area geographic layers, integrated and aggregated administrative records from municipal agencies, and analysis. |
| Cartographic Modeling Lab | |
| Amy Hillier | This website presents some of my historical GIS research on redlining in Philadelphia |
| Link to Neighborhood Change Database | |