Comments on: Session on use of historical maps in GIS

By: Hilton A Cordoba

Hilton A Cordoba — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 05:02:41 +0000

Looking forward to this interesting session! I hope you are able to join in the “Intro to GIS” session I recently proposed.

By: Thomas Cauvin

Thomas Cauvin — Thu, 26 Feb 2015 21:41:14 +0000

Great stuff. I think we will be able to have three sessions on GIS. Hilton Cordoba may have an opening session Wednesday to introduce campers to GIS. Then, we could have a session on tools in the afternoon. Jason, we can have a session Thursday morning on more technical aspects of using GIS software.

By: Andrew Sluyter

Andrew Sluyter — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 15:02:44 +0000

I am interested in seeing what others are discovering about the rapidly moving frontier of GIS on the Web. To me, the most interesting aspect of GIS these days is that it has moved onto the web, allowing new ways of thinking about scholarship, teaching, and collaboration. There seem to be various models emerging, from good old Google Maps, which has a low-level free version, to MapStory, which is free but still rough and hopes to become the Wikipedia of web maps, to ArcGIS Online, which is sophisticated but costs so much and is so corporate that it contradicts the sort of openness I find appealing about the digital humanities. But the number of options is proliferating so rapidly, and each is changing all the time (as cloud apps like Google Maps can, often in major ways without much advance notice) that it’s difficult for any one person to keep up. Within all that, I am most interested in ways of using historical maps, a particular issue given the focus of Google Maps, MapStory, and others on vector rather than raster sources.

By: Jason Theriot

Jason Theriot — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 14:37:47 +0000

Andrew et al, I am interested in a workshop on the basics of GIS and other mapping platforms for my research on historical oil and gas fields in Louisiana. At this moment, my only window to attend is Thursday morning.
Thanks
Jason Theriot

By: Jim Coby

Jim Coby — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 16:07:05 +0000

I’d be interested in attending this session. As a southern literature scholar, I often find myself using maps in the classroom to help students understand the fluidity of geographic boundaries, particularly how they have shaped notions of “regional” literatures.

By: Andrew Sluyter

Andrew Sluyter — Sun, 22 Feb 2015 17:49:41 +0000

Sounds tres bon to me.

By: Thomas Cauvin

Thomas Cauvin — Sun, 22 Feb 2015 17:05:39 +0000

Thank you for your post Andrew. GIS will be a key topic for the conference. I think my colleague Hilton Cordoba can have an introductory session about GIS (the basics uses, tools, limits….). Jason Theriot (who can only make it on Thursday) is also using GIS for Environmental History, I think we could have another great session on Thursday morning (also the morning is supposed to be more about workshops). We could also have a session on Wednesday afternoon about open access GIS tools. I started using Mapwindow, you know about QGIS, others will help.