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Old Maps and its Usage with Contemporary Map in Environment of Geographical Information System (GIS)

Old historical maps made in 19th century or earlier are saved (stored) in museums, libraries and other institutions should be easily accessable to wide users. Bibliographic data, mostly used ISBD(CM), are accessable through internet databases. The pictures of the old historical maps are rarely accessable at internet databases or at digital media (CD, DVD, blue ray), more rarely they are accessable in a certain coordinate system in order to compare them with other contemporary maps in geographical information system (GIS). The main topic of the paper are old historical maps in usable coordinate system as data for geographical information system (GIS). In the article are touched a calibrations of old historical maps and theirs transformation in GIS with some examples and data analysis.

old maps; coordinate system; calibration; transformation; geographical information system (GIS)

Georg Gartner & Felix Ortag (Eds.): Proceedings of the First ICA Symposium for Central and Eastern Europe 2009, Vienna University of Technology, 2009.