Lan, T;
Longley, P;
(2019)
Geo-Referencing and Mapping 1901 Census Addresses for England and Wales.
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
, 8
(8)
, Article 320. 10.3390/ijgi8080320.
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Abstract
Geocoding historical addresses is a primary yet nontrivial application of spatial analysis in historical geographic information systems (GIS) and spatial humanities. We demonstrate our endeavours of geo-referencing and visualising historical census addresses in England and Wales, by matching the residential addresses to a historical gazetteer and a contemporary address database of Britain. The results indicate that it is feasible to standardise and geocode a large share of unique addresses from the historical database. The historical gazetteer and the modern address registers are two complementary data assets that can be used to geo-reference both well-formatted addresses in urban areas and non-standard addresses such as place names or building names in rural areas. The geo-referenced historical census data open up new opportunities for a broad spectrum of geo-demographic research on historical population characteristics at the micro level in England and Wales.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Geo-Referencing and Mapping 1901 Census Addresses for England and Wales |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.3390/ijgi8080320 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi8080320 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2019 by the Authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | historical censuses; geocoding; address matching; historical geo-demographics; spatial humanities |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Geography |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10079594 |
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