Abstract
Contemporary organizations have faced the growing management of cartographic documentation, some of them of heritage interest. There are numerous institutions that are digitizing, georeferencing and publishing their historical cartography. The motivation of this research is to facilitate the choice of the most appropriate software to perform these tasks. This article carries out the critical review and analysis of four Geographic Information Systems (GIS) of full significance today. After systematizing the general characteristics and modules that must satisfy this type of application, we proceed to the detailed evaluation of the selected Geographic Information Systems, reaching as a result the discussion of the advantages that each one of them provides, of their distinctive characteristics, as well as their professional adequacy.
Highlights
The digital revolution has led cartography to unprecedented levels of consumption (Cascón-Katchadourian; Ruiz-Rodríguez, 2016: 971). This revolution is marked by essential steps, including improvements in the treatment, dissemination and manipulation of cartography. This is due to the restitution by aerial photogrammetry in digitized cartography (Cortés-José, 2001: 39-113), successes achieved with Global Positioning Systems (GPS), and new procedures in composition, cartographic writing and map printing (Espiago, 2001: 183-220)
From the experience of the authors in the management of ancient cartography through the research project Histocarto at the University of Granada (CascónKatchadourian and others, 2019) (Histocarto, 2020), and from the results of precedent investigations where we identify the most significant points of evaluation for this software (Cascón-Katchadourian and others, 2018b), we proceed to the analysis and evaluation of four types of software which have been qualitatively selected
The general characteristics section includes the analysis of three elements that greatly influence the access of users to each software, in an evaluation of 0-3 (Table 1)
Summary
Maps are not merely descriptive documents of history; they are an active part of it Their evolution and diversity exemplify what society has demanded from geographical and spatial representation systems in each historical moment. This revolution is marked by essential steps, including improvements in the treatment, dissemination and manipulation of cartography This is due to the restitution by aerial photogrammetry in digitized cartography (Cortés-José, 2001: 39-113), successes achieved with Global Positioning Systems (GPS), and new procedures in composition, cartographic writing and map printing (Espiago, 2001: 183-220).
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