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Geographic Information Sciences

2014

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Mapping And Analyzing Historical Sanborn Maps Of San Luis Obispo From 1905 And 1950, Troy A. Lawson Jun 2014

Mapping And Analyzing Historical Sanborn Maps Of San Luis Obispo From 1905 And 1950, Troy A. Lawson

Social Sciences

This project was conducted to map, analyze, and determine historical changes in the city of San Luis Obispo, California. Sanborn maps from 1905 and 1950 were drawn showing streets, parcels, creeks, and buildings of the city. These publications had limited use because they were in a physical format without any geographic reference. Here, these maps were digitized into a GIS format to analyze building trends and identify cultural and historical buildings not on the City’s list of Historic and Culturally Contributing Buildings, as well as published online on the City of San Luis Obispo’s website and on ArcGIS Online. Additionally, …

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The Role Of Geospatial Technology In Bridging The Gap Between Physical And Human Geography, Pankaj Roy Apr 2014

The Role Of Geospatial Technology In Bridging The Gap Between Physical And Human Geography, Pankaj Roy

Pankaj Roy

The interaction between physical and human geography is obvious as both are two sub disciplines of parent subject Geography. But it has been felt that the gap between the two sub disciplines has been increasing as time passed. It has been tried to seek answer of the question that why the gap between these two sister disciplines has been increasing day by day putting the Tobler’s first law of Geography, ‘Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things’ as the base statement in the growth of specialization also. If we follow the first …

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