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- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Copyright
- © 2010 Maney Publishing
- ISSN
- 2040-8153
- eISSN
- 1466-2035
- DOI
- 10.1179/lan.2010.11.2.80
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
l a n d s c a p e s (2010), 2, pp. 80–84 © Review Article Review Article: New Approaches to Mapping Historic Landscapes Glenn Foard, David Hall and Tracy Partida, Rockingham Forest: an Atlas of the Medieval and Early-Modern Landscape (2) 900 Northamptonshire Record Society Vol. XLIV, Northampton. 312 pages, illustrated, ISBN 0901275670, £20. The preface to this volume promises much from the sophisticated technology it employs to integrate and analyse in digital form information derived from fieldwork and historical research using Geographical Information Systems (GIS). This, we are urged, ‘is the most effective way of interacting various types of evidence to display the character of the landscape and show how it changed through the centuries’. As someone daunted by any form of technology more advanced than the wheel, I have to come clean at the outset of this review by admitting that I struggle to understand GIS. Having tried very hard to read up on this process and still failed to make much sense of it, I had arrived at the somewhat jaundiced conclusion that the rhetoric about its potential was in danger of exceeding any meaningful achievements in its application. This book has confounded all
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Landscapes – Taylor & Francis
Published: Oct 1, 2010