Toggle Main Menu Toggle Search

Open Access padlockePrints

Using bidimensional regression to explore map lineage

Lookup NU author(s): M Charlton, Dr Christopher Brunsdon

Downloads

Full text for this publication is not currently held within this repository. Alternative links are provided below where available.


Abstract

This paper is concerned with the exploration of lineage in pre-twentieth century mapping taking Suffolk as an example. A non-parametric bidimensional regression (Tobler, 1994, Geographical Analysis, 26 186-212) is used to investigate patterns of distortion in seven maps of the county (Saxton: 1575, Jansson: 1646, Blome: 1673, Overton: 1713, Harrison: 1790, Rowe: 1831, and Wyld: 1891). For cach map the locations of 50 towns and villages were digitised and are used to predict the position of the same 50 locations on 20C OS mapping. The residuals are used to interpolate a vector field for each map from which the OS grid may be warped to give a visual indication of distortion. Finally, a statistical comparison of the distortion is made using Akaike's Information Criterion (Akaike, 1973, In B. Petrov, & F. Csaki, 2nd Symposium on Information Theory (pp. 267-281), Budapest: Akademiai Kiado). The results suggest that pre-nineteenth century map makers were heavily dependent on the work of their predecessors. © 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.


Publication metadata

Author(s): Symington A, Charlton ME, Brunsdon CF

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Computers, Environment and Urban Systems

Year: 2002

Volume: 26

Issue: 2-3

Pages: 201-218

ISSN (print): 0198-9715

ISSN (electronic): 1873-7587

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0198-9715(01)00042-4

DOI: 10.1016/S0198-9715(01)00042-4


Altmetrics

Altmetrics provided by Altmetric


Share