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Placing Names - Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,205
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Placing Names - Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (Hardcover): Ruth Mostern, Humphrey Southall, Merrick Lex Berman

Placing Names - Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (Hardcover)

Ruth Mostern, Humphrey Southall, Merrick Lex Berman; Preface by Peter Bol; Contributions by Michael Frank Goodchild, Helen Kerfoot, Ryan Shaw, Raj Singh, Karl Grossner, Krzysztof Janowicz

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Well before the innovation of maps, gazetteers served as the main geographic referencing system for hundreds of years. Consisting of a specialized index of place names, gazetteers traditionally linked descriptive elements with topographic features and coordinates. Placing Names is inspired by that tradition of discursive place-making and by contemporary approaches to digital data management that have revived the gazetteer and guided its development in recent decades. Adopted by researchers in the Digital Humanities and Spatial Sciences, gazetteers provide a way to model the kind of complex cultural, vernacular, and perspectival ideas of place that can be located in texts and expanded into an interconnected framework of naming history. This volume brings together leading and emergent scholars to examine the history of the gazetteer, its important role in geographic information science, and its use to further the reach and impact of spatial reasoning into the digital age.

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Imprint: Indiana University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: August 2016
First published: 2016
Editors: Ruth Mostern • Humphrey Southall • Merrick Lex Berman
Preface by: Peter Bol
Contributors: Michael Frank Goodchild • Helen Kerfoot • Ryan Shaw • Raj Singh • Karl Grossner • Krzysztof Janowicz
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Paper over boards
Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 978-0-253-02244-8
Categories: Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Historical geography
Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Human geography > General
Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Maps, charts & atlases > Place names & gazetteers
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LSN: 0-253-02244-4
Barcode: 9780253022448

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