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Internet Gis As A Historic Place-Making Tool For Mammoth Cave National Park, Ann E. Epperson Dec 2010

Internet Gis As A Historic Place-Making Tool For Mammoth Cave National Park, Ann E. Epperson

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This project laid the groundwork for an Internet-delivered Public Participation Geographic Information System to facilitate exploration and discovery of the past communities of the Mammoth Cave Park area. The emergence of Internet Web 2.0 design along with distributed GIS services allows for anyone to interact with and add to the information found on central Internet sites. Historical geography often relies upon public participation from individuals outside the academic world to provide narrative descriptions, photographs and manuscripts of past places and events to augment information held by institutions and academia. A public-participation website for the Mammoth Cave Historic GIS (MCHGIS) created …