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Text recognition in both ancient and cartographic documents [article]

Nizar Zaghden, Badreddine Khelifi, Adel M. Alimi, Remy Mullot
2013 arXiv   pre-print
This paper deals with the recognition and matching of text in both cartographic maps and ancient documents.  ...  We applied fontspotting on both ancient documents and cartographic ones.  ...  We so calculated the terms precision and recall for two various methods which we adopted: 101 TEXT RECOGNITION IN BOTH ANCIENT AND CARTOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTS We can notice also that the best rates of  ... 
arXiv:1308.6309v1 fatcat:d5bt46s2mjcvpmjjpvranbx6ja

Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600

Jonathon F. Lewis
2009 Cartographic Perspectives  
, solidly documented case that is both organizationally and stylistically well constructed.  ...  Convinced of his own view, Hiatt's reasoning and documentation are uncharacteristically thin in one or two spots.  ... 
doi:10.14714/cp63.161 fatcat:rw4hpeeox5ffpo3un6kv2c4p2u

Bertin's map reading theory: an enlightening tool for "clearing up" concepts and analysis of old maps content

Angeliki Tsorlini, Chryssoula Boutoura, Evangelos Livieratos
2022 Abstracts of the International Cartographic Association  
Research Projects to support Faculty members and Researchers and the procurement of high-cost research equipment" (Project Number: 96594).  ...  Acknowledgements The research project is supported by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (H.F.R.I.) under the "1st Call for H.F.R.I.  ...  for grafein (graphique), the latter word meaning in ancient Greek both the text writing and the map drawing (Dilke, 1998 ).  ... 
doi:10.5194/ica-abs-5-137-2022 fatcat:jjg754cuzja4zajdwh42w4yrxe

Uses and applications of georeferencing and geolocation in old cartographic and photographic document management

Jesús Cascón-Katchadourian, Antonio-Ángel Ruiz-Rodríguez, Jordi Alberich-Pascual
2018 El Profesional de la Informacion  
Jesús Cascón-Katchadourian has a degree in history and a degree in documentation from the University of Granada (UGR).  ...  He got a first national award for his documentation studies by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport.  ...  To make these as small as possible, the projections are used, although in old cartography they are unusual.  ... 
doi:10.3145/epi.2018.ene.19 fatcat:jj777nrpfndepomuvymf6uiste

Cartographer's experience of time in the Mercator-Hondius Atlas (1606, 1613)

Janne Tunturi
2016 Approaching Religion  
Firstly, the atlas reflects the sense of the past as the cartographers had to assess the information included in ancient texts in relation to modern testimonies.  ...  Secondly, Hondius had to take into account the worldview provided by the explorers in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.  ...  Britannia, like most topographic studies, consisted of both maps and texts, thus paving the way to both Mercator and Hondius.  ... 
doi:10.30664/ar.67582 fatcat:f6yz4nax4nfxrd2q7fz24wf6iy

Two Web-GIS Projects on Russian Historical Sources of the 15–19th Centuries

Aleksei A. Frolov, Aleksei A. Golubinskiy
2018 Proceedings of the ICA  
The second project offers the results of localization of toponyms and land parcels from various documents (15–19th cc.) connected with one region of the Russian State called Bezhetsk Upland (  ...  These results were arranged in the set of layers which may be combined by the user.  ...  Acknowledgements We are grateful to Russian State Archive of Ancient Documents and personally to its director M. Ryzhenkov. Also we appreciate help of our colleagues -T. Bazarova, A. Deduk. I.  ... 
doi:10.5194/ica-proc-1-39-2018 fatcat:vdvnophf6zflhm2gstwesfak54

HGIS AND ARCHIVE RESEARCHES: A TOOL FOR THE STUDY OF THE ANCIENT MILL CHANNEL OF CESENA (ITALY)

G. Bitelli, F. Bartolini, G. Gatta
2016 The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences  
Using the QGIS open source platform, a Historical GIS was created, encompassing the current cartographic base and all historical maps, with their vectorized elements; each archive document was linked to  ...  This simple and interactive tool offers a new approach to archive searches, as it allows reconstruction in space and time of the evolution of the ancient channel and the history of this important mill  ...  The great utility of GIS in management of historical cartographic data is proved by many HGIS projects that have been developed in recent years for various purposes, at both national and urban scale (  ... 
doi:10.5194/isprsarchives-xli-b5-183-2016 fatcat:muhrr6misncinlj5kjqup5l6fm

HGIS AND ARCHIVE RESEARCHES: A TOOL FOR THE STUDY OF THE ANCIENT MILL CHANNEL OF CESENA (ITALY)

G. Bitelli, F. Bartolini, G. Gatta
2016 The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences  
Using the QGIS open source platform, a Historical GIS was created, encompassing the current cartographic base and all historical maps, with their vectorized elements; each archive document was linked to  ...  This simple and interactive tool offers a new approach to archive searches, as it allows reconstruction in space and time of the evolution of the ancient channel and the history of this important mill  ...  The great utility of GIS in management of historical cartographic data is proved by many HGIS projects that have been developed in recent years for various purposes, at both national and urban scale (  ... 
doi:10.5194/isprs-archives-xli-b5-183-2016 fatcat:jcststmdavhdhpjefguqnrhi4e

Analysis of Pre-Geodetic Maps in Search of Construction Steps Details [chapter]

Gabriele Bitelli, Stefano Cremonini, Giorgia Gatt
2012 Cartography - A Tool for Spatial Analysis  
Acknowledgement We are grateful to the Venice National Archive, for the consultation of the map by Fabri and the map by Lorini et al., and to the Engineering Faculty Library Gian Paolo Dore of the University  ...  and represent the degree of deformation recorded in the ancient document.  ...  Introduction Cartographic Heritage consists in the whole amount of ancient cartographic documents (not only maps, but also atlas, planispheres, globes, ...) the history has brought us, today perceived  ... 
doi:10.5772/46189 fatcat:p663zrj5tbeblbvyaxxmtic574

Contested Ideologies of Space in Hispanic American Cartographic Practices: From the Abstract to the Real in Spanish and Indigenous Maps of Yucatán

Cody Barteet
2013 RACAR Revue d art canadienne  
This suggests they understood how maps could document lands in abstract terms and were familiar with the use of both text and pictographs to do so.  ...  by blending text and image to create an abstract signifier of the province in both Spanish and Maya terms.  ... 
doi:10.7202/1020792ar fatcat:mgydtgjvqnazvgqeeln72vn3be

Analysis of the Language of the Historical Maps of Abruzzo from 1550 to 1800. Between the Objective Portrayal and the Reading of Unconventional Codes

Alessia Maiolatesi
2017 Proceedings (MDPI)  
In particular, it is analyzed the geographical language on one hand, and the illustrative apparatus with the graphic techniques that enclose apparently hidden but extraordinary meanings on the other.  ...  territories bathed by a imaginary creatures populated sea, that allow a double reading dense with objective meanings and a series of metaphors of fictional and surreal impact.  ...  this is unchanging in time and for himself circumscribable to the already know.  ... 
doi:10.3390/proceedings1090908 fatcat:6ic6vp6xnjcjtdqrteaqxbjyku

Networks, Territories, and the Cartography of Ancient States

Monica L. Smith
2005 Annals of the Association of American Geographers  
With broad lines and dark shading, the cartographic depictions of ancient states and empires convey the impression of comprehensive political entities having firm boundaries and uniform territorial control  ...  Archaeological and textual evidence suggests that ancient states are better understood through network models rather than bounded-territory models.  ...  culture areas with distinct boundaries and urges the recognition of cultural trajectories that may have extenuated edges in both space and time.  ... 
doi:10.1111/j.1467-8306.2005.00489.x fatcat:lqbw3vn7z5c2lftssop5fk6pgu

The Facsimile Editions of El Colegio Mexiquense, A.C

María Teresa Jarquín Ortega
2002 Jahrbuch für Geschichte Lateinamerikas – Anuario de Historia de America Latina  
Two interesting maps in which native and Spanish cartographic elements are mixed, serve as an introduction and geographic reference.  ...  Our Colegio decided to publish it in a facsimile format accompanied with an appendix containing texts about its process of restoration and scientific studies on the ámatl paper and color.  ... 
doi:10.7767/jbla.2002.39.1.325 fatcat:ewnqcgijwzfdzlojouitmips5e

THE DOCUMENTATION OF HISTORIC MAPS OF WORLD HERITAGE SITE CITY SUZHOU

Z. Guangwei
2013 The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences  
Through the work both quantitative and qualitative, a clear vision of the evolution and characteristics of the urban structure of ancient Suzhou is achieved.  ...  , this inspire as well on the cautious utilization of historical materials from ancient time in the recording, documentation work.  ...  at both the north and south ends of the city).  ... 
doi:10.5194/isprsarchives-xl-5-w2-295-2013 fatcat:p5chwbb42zevrmin34atvyntp4

Unlocking Textual Content from Historical Maps - Potentials and Applications, Trends, and Outlooks [chapter]

Yao-Yi Chiang
2017 Communications in Computer and Information Science  
This paper presents the potentials of using historical maps in scientific research, describes the current trends and challenges in extracting and recognizing text content from historical maps, and discusses  ...  Digital map processing has been an interest in the image processing and pattern recognition community since the early 80s.  ...  Acknowledgements This research is based upon work supported in part by the National Science Foundation under award number IIS1564164 and in part by the University of Southern California under the Undergraduate  ... 
doi:10.1007/978-981-10-4859-3_11 fatcat:hl2ytvj755hjvmelznvjtdbedm
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