An open-source based toolchain for the georeferencing of old cadastral maps
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- Subject Areas
- Spatial and Geographic Information Systems
- Keywords
- QUALITY ASSESSMENT, OLD CADASTRAL MAPS GEOREFERENCING, GEOMETRIC TRANSFORMATION
- Copyright
- © 2016 Follin et al.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2016. An open-source based toolchain for the georeferencing of old cadastral maps. PeerJ Preprints 4:e2222v3 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2222v3
Abstract
More and more historical data are available on the web. In France, old cadastral maps are regularly published by the “départements”. Such material is relevant to various applications (on-the-field search of specific objects such as old boundary stakes, historical studies of demography, human activities, land cover…). The GeF laboratory is working on the development of a complete methodological toolchain to vectorise, correct and analyse cadastral parcels and their evolution, using open source software and programming language only (QGIS, GDAL, Python). This article details the use of a part of this toolchain - georeferencing old cadastral data - on parcels located near the Loir river, in two villages of southern Sarthe: Vaas and Aubigné-Racan. After a presentation of our methodological toolchain, we will discuss our first results.
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- abstract reformatted according to common template
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- results updated for the RNG method after identification of an error in the code