The “Historical Geocoding Assistant” is an open-sourced browser-based application for assigning geographic coordinates in a more convenient and faster way than copy-pasting them from services such as Google Maps. The application was designed with historical projects in mind but is suitable for any geocoding work
To cite the software:
Adam Mertel, David Zbíral, Zdeněk Stachoň, and Hana Hořínková, ‘Historical Geocoding Assistant’, SoftwareX 14 (2021): 100682, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2021.100682.
- works online with a live Google Spreadsheets table;
- gathers suggestions of coordinates from gazetteers for instant use (GeoNames, Wikipedia, Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names, Pleiades, and China Historical GIS);
- integrates search services (Google Maps, Google Search, Peripleo);
- supports multiple base layers (OpenStreetMap, satellite images, Imperium, etc.);
- supports multiple overlay layers;
- allows setting relevant spatial extent;
- allows spatial uncertainty levels.
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- integration of additional gazetteers and other relevant services (World-Historical Gazetteer)
- possibility to load a custom map service directly from the GUI
- further improvement of the algorithm to rank and sort geocode suggestions
- management of the custom parametrization of gazetteer calls
- integration of line and polygon topologies
- user management
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