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Value proposition

Early Modern Thames geolocated gazetteer for automatic geotagging of places, buildings & topographical features, to be used to increase geospatial searchability of text corpora and scanned maps.

Functionality

• Ingestor for diverse gazetteers
• Name disambiguator
• Name variant equivalents
• Geographic ontology builder
• Assign precise geo-location to vectors and polygons and associate these precise geo-locations with confidence intervals (e.g. within 10 metres, within 100 metres, within 500 metres of central point

Geographic area

• Use the oblong defined by http://www.fragosus.pe.hu/Thames/RumseyCollection.htm

Data sources

• OS Names API: https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/products/os-open-names-api.html
• OS Places API: https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/products/os-places/index.html
• GB1900.ORG: http://geo.nls.uk/maps/gb1900/#zoom=14&lat=51.4970&lon=-0.0006
• MOLA developed concordance or gazeteer for names assigned to vectors and polygons in Morgan Map of London (1682) and Rocque map of London (1746)
• User added data at February 11th-12th, 2017 Maphackathon - from datamining of textual corpora, maps and plans