The Great Britain Historical GIS.

Abstract

The goal of the Great Britain Historical GIS Project is to create a common framework within which the majority of spatially referenced official statistics published since the early nineteenth century can be integrated, locating this information in time and space. Fundamental to the project is the use of Geographical Information System (GIS) technology, which links the statistical data and the places they refer to. Geographical Information Systems model the world in layers or themes, and so enable us to integrate many datasets collected at different times and published using different administrative units into a common structure. The historian, unlike the contemporary researcher, has limited control over the data they have to work with; but the GIS creates new and powerful ways of manipulating available data to answer previously unanswerable questions.

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