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What are the requirements for building a historic deep map using literary data? This is the question we sought to address as part of an exploratory prototype in Lancaster University Geospatial Innovation in the Digital Humanities: A Deep Map of the English Lake District project. We created a prototype deep map based on Thomas Wests A guide to the Lakes, and a historic map of Derwent Water Lake created by Peter Crosthwaite. Our prototype maps the locations of Wests picturesque viewing stations and creates connections between the literary work and visual representations of the places described. This article describes our approach to building this prototype and discusses what we learned and the issues we revealed about creating a historic deep map.
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Crosthwaite Maps http://www.geog.port.ac.uk/webmap/thelakes/html/crosth/ct1fram.htm.
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Spatial Humanities: Text, GIS, Places project http://www.lancs.ac.uk/spatialhum.
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Carrot Search: Foam Tree https://carrotsearch.com/foamtree/.
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This research received funding from the Leverhulme Trust (RPG-2015-230), as part of the ‘Geospatial Innovation in the Digital Humanities’ project.
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Reinhold, A., Donaldson, C., Gregory, I., Rayson, P. (2018). Exploring Deep Mapping Concepts: Crosthwaite’s Map and West’s Picturesque Stations. In: Fogliaroni, P., Ballatore, A., Clementini, E. (eds) Proceedings of Workshops and Posters at the 13th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2017). COSIT 2017. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63946-8_43
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