{"id":2586,"date":"2017-11-12T18:28:44","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T02:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/?p=2586"},"modified":"2017-11-12T18:28:44","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T02:28:44","slug":"reflection-on-locating-londons-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/2017\/11\/12\/reflection-on-locating-londons-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflection on Locating London’s Past"},"content":{"rendered":"

For this week\u2019s blog post I chose to look at the DH mapping project – Locating London\u2019s past. Locating London\u2019s past is a project which allows users to search a wide body of digital resources relating to early modern and eighteenth-century London, and to map the results onto a fully GIS compliant version of John Rocque’s 1746 map, a 1869-80 map, and a current map which is operated by google maps. The project used maps as a geographical table, on which users can annotate with geocoded data points from various datasets and study the relationship between the geographical areas and certain societal records of their interests. The map\u2019s appearance and boundaries conveyed a most salient assumption, that London\u2019s past only happened in central London. The main perspective was taken from people or administrative agencies from central London, which makes sense because the parts that were neglected such as west London was not as developed or populated by then.<\/span><\/p>\n

Considering all the available datasets and the maps themselves, the most important aspects that the map reveals are the geographical features (from the maps) and the civilian records (from the datasets) such as crimes or logs of households. For example, a large portion of the mappable data points are from datasets which include information of various aspects of crimes, such as evidence about the locations of suspicious deaths, and jurisdiction records. These datasets can be very useful for evaluating a city\u2019s safety situations and reflecting potential problems such as high crime rates in different geographical regions. Other than that, I also found it interesting that there is a dataset containing 162,973 records detailing the contents of fire insurance policies taken out between 1777 and 1786 with the Sun and Royal Exchange insurance companies. It reflected that during that certain period of time, fire accidents were regarded as the important incidents which the city put in majority effort to avoid. As technology advanced, there are more and more new societal concerns other than fire that people and the city governors would worry about. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The map mostly focused on civilian life, such as household logs, crime\/trial logs, and marriage records, etc. It left out information of aspects other than civilian life of a society, such as economics and industrial records. An alternate map can possibly contain datasets of registered local businesses that were active during a certain period of time. It can also map out the information of domestic and international trading that took place in the area. Moreover, by examining each datasets, there are many individual data points not mappable, given that they lacked the geocoded information. Therefore, an alternated map can contain entries of information that come with registered address on file, so that the whole dataset can be completely mapped out without losing individual records. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For this week\u2019s blog post I chose to look at the DH mapping project – Locating London\u2019s past. Locating London\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":177,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/177"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}