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Follow the road: historical GIS for evaluating the development of routes in the Negev region during the twentieth century / Motti Zohar in Cartography and Geographic Information Science, vol 47 n° 6 (October 2020)  

Public [article]  inCartography and Geographic Information Science > vol 47 n° 6 (October 2020) . - pp 532 - 546 Titre : Follow the road: historical GIS for evaluating the development of routes in the Negev region during the twentieth century Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Motti Zohar, Auteur Année de publication : 2020 Article en page(s) : pp 532 - 546 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Systèmes d'information géographique [Termes IGN] carte militaire [Termes IGN] cartographie historique [Termes IGN] Palestine [Termes IGN] point d'appui [Termes IGN] point d'intérêt [Termes IGN] réseau routier [Termes IGN] Sinai [Termes IGN] transformation polynomiale [Termes IGN] vingtième siècle Résumé : (auteur) At the beginning of the twentieth century, a British mapping team led by Captain S. F. Newcombe surveyed and mapped the Negev region, Sinai, and western Jordan. The map was mainly produced for military use. Consequently, it included a network of branched routes, water supplies and facilities, and topographic contours. This study used this map to examine the development of routes in the Negev region between the beginning of and until the end of the twentieth century. First, the individual sheets comprising the study area were pieced together and the accuracy of the map was evaluated. The accuracy found on the Newcombe map was 0.76 mm on the map scale, equivalent to 100.3 m. Route development during the twentieth century was then evaluated by comparing the routes digitized from the Newcombe map to digitized routes on a late twentieth-century map. The results do not reveal tremendous changes in path, shape, or number of routes. Instead, they merely indicate the natural development in their quality. This Historical GIS-based approach provided a useful technique for analyzing and comparing the line segments extracted from historical and modern maps. The implemented approach may also serve other geographical or historical studies aiming to examine the development of branched networks throughout history. Numéro de notice : A2020-605 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : GEOMATIQUE Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1080/15230406.2019.1577176 Date de publication en ligne : 26/02/2019 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2019.1577176 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=95965 [article]

New measures for analysis and comparison of shape distortion in world map projections / Melih Basaraner in Cartography and Geographic Information Science, vol 47 n° 6 (October 2020)  

Public [article]  inCartography and Geographic Information Science > vol 47 n° 6 (October 2020) . - pp 518 - 531 Titre : New measures for analysis and comparison of shape distortion in world map projections Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Melih Basaraner, Auteur ; Sinan Cetinkaya, Auteur Année de publication : 2020 Article en page(s) : pp 518 - 531 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Projections [Termes IGN] déformation géométrique [Termes IGN] mappemonde [Termes IGN] projection Résumé : (auteur) World maps can have quite different depictions of reality depending on the projection adopted, and this can influence our perception of the world. In this respect, shape is a significant property that needs to be considered, especially when representing large regions in general-purpose world maps. A map projection distorts most geometric properties (area, distance, direction/angle, shape, and specific curves) and usually preserves a single property or provides a compromise between different properties when transforming terrestrial features from globe to plane. The distortions are mainly classified based on area, distance and direction/angle and analyzed with Tissot’s theorem. However, this theorem offers a local (pointwise) solution, so the distortion assessment is valid at infinitesimal scale (i.e. for very small regions). For this reason, different approaches are required to analyze the distortions at finite scale (i.e. for larger regions). However, there are very few attempts at analyzing and comparing shape distortion of landmasses in world map projections owing to the fact that shape measurement is difficult and usually involves measuring different characteristics. Seeking to fill this gap, in this study, compactness and elongation distortion measures are introduced. In this regard, 16 world map projections are analyzed and compared with these distortion measures in a GIS environment, based on map datasets of continents and countries. An analysis of the effect of the levels of detail of the datasets is also presented. Numéro de notice : A2020-606 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : GEOMATIQUE/POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1080/15230406.2019.1567394 Date de publication en ligne : 04/02/2019 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2019.1567394 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=95966 [article]