Citizen humanities is the term for citizen 'science'in the humanities. It has a long tradition
and, since the object of investigation is human culture, raises questions about values …

Sanborn Fire Insurance maps contain a wealth of building-level information about US cities
dating back to the late 19th century. They are a valuable resource for studying changes in …

Cliometrics is the application of economic theory and quantitative methods to the study of
economic history. The methodology rose to favor in economics departments in the 1960s. It …

Abstract The Grand Canal is one of the most important hydraulic engineering projects in
Chinese history. The city of Suzhou has abundant and concentrated cultural heritage sites in …

Geocoding historical addresses is a primary yet nontrivial application of spatial analysis in
historical geographic information systems (GIS) and spatial humanities. We demonstrate our …

Address and location challenges are global, yet sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA) is the most
poorly referenced geographically due to poor spatial referencing of mobility infrastructure …

This paper aims to present and discuss the method of geocoding historical place names
from historic maps that cannot be georeferenced in the GIS environment. This concerns …

Locating points of interest (POIs) from descriptions can support intelligent location‐based
services. Available research achieves it through address matching and spatial reasoning …

Contemporary literature on the dynamics of economic activities in growing cities has mainly
focused on time frames of a few years or decades. Using a new geohistorical database …

In this paper, we propose and discuss a methodology to map the spatial fingerprints of
novels and authors based on all of the named urban roads (ie, odonyms) extracted from …