Crowdsourced-based mapping of historical west-to-east routes from the textual accounts of European Travelers
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Crowdsourced-based mapping of historical west-to-east routes from the textual accounts of European TravelersOthers authors
Huerta Guijarro, Joaquín; Schade, Sven; Granell Canut, CarlosDate
2014-06Abstract
Through the centuries, numerous travellers and orientalists visited Persia (Iran) and described the country and its inhabitants in their travel writings. These travel accounts comprise valuable historical information ... [+]
Through the centuries, numerous travellers and orientalists visited Persia (Iran) and described the country and its inhabitants in their travel writings. These travel accounts comprise valuable historical information about the people and their traditions. A literature on travel writings indicate that surprisingly, despite the importance of these recordings, the studies related to the different aspects of these travels, such as the travel routes and the varieties of the possible application of them on the modern time are relatively scarce. The current research deals with the travel routes of nine the most famous early modern European explorers. Accordingly, in addition to digitalizing and mapping the taken routes, the dynamics of their itineraries are analysed. [-]
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Ponencias, comunicaciones y pósters presentados en el 17th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science
"Connecting a Digital Europe through Location and Place", celebrado en la Universitat Jaume I del 3 al 6 ... [+]
Ponencias, comunicaciones y pósters presentados en el 17th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science
"Connecting a Digital Europe through Location and Place", celebrado en la Universitat Jaume I del 3 al 6 de junio de 2014. [-]
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Huerta, Schade, Granell (Eds): Connecting a Digital Europe through Location and Place. Proceedings of the AGILE'2014 International Conference on Geographic Information Science, Castellón, June, 3-6, 2014. ISBN: 978-90-816960-4-3ISBN
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