出版社：National Centre for Maps and Cartographic Heritage
摘要：This paper tests the potential of MapAnalyst for reconstructing and visualizing the production process of historical maps. MapAnalyst is an open source computer program for analyzing historical maps in various ways, accessible also for the technically inexperienced user. Within a German-Israeli research project on Holy Land cartography in the mid-19th century, we examined two editions of the “Map of the Holy Land” (1858 and 1865) by Charles William Meredith van de Velde with the help of MapAnalyst. Aided by additional sources, published and archival, we could not only prove that the map is much more heterogeneous than visible at first sight, but that the third party sources the cartographer used to make his map were verified and ranked according to an internal system of reputation that not necessarily resulted in increased planimetric accuracy.
关键词：map production; Holy Land; planimetric accuracy; Charles William Meredith van de Velde; Justus Perthes
