Abstract
<p class="western"><span style="color: #00000a;"><span lang="en-GB">Reconstruction of historical spatial relationships is still a topical issue in historical geography. In this respect, the Church history has not been well explored. The parish administration in the Czech lands is evolving since the advent of Christianity in 863, and a number of reforms have passed over the centuries. Significant changes in the administration also underwent during recatholisation of the Czech lands in the 17th</span></span><span style="color: #00000a;"><span lang="en-GB"> and 18th</span></span><span style="color: #00000a;"><span lang="en-GB">century. From this Baroque era, there are written sources which have been preserved, so they can be utilized to reconstruct historical Church administration in the form of web mapping application. The paper briefly introduces methods which were used to build a spatial database filled with historical data. However, the main outcome of this paper is to describe the creation of the web mapping application that provides visualisation of this data. Discussed are topics like cartographic project, choice of map symbols, data generalization for different levels of detail and placement of annotations. Display of cartographic data were performed using the ArcGIS platform, through a combination of map tiles and feature services that are bundled into the application template created in Web AppBuilder.</span></span></p>
Highlights
Nowadays, spatial data processing and creation of map outputs by applying geographic information systems (GIS) are conventional practice in many fields
The current state what ArcGIS Online can do is good to draw directly from product pages1, respectively from Help2. It is important for the web mapping application of Church administration that data and map compositions from the fat client ArcMap can be transferred into ArcGIS Online
Are some of the tips that would benefit ArcGIS Online in the future – support of access to the attribute table of auxiliary vector layer connected to raster tile layer; the possibility of bringing multiple layers into one, where details would remain hidden for end user; or the ability to view only designer-selected layers at web map, i.e. there would be all layers in the map window but service layers would be hidden in the list of layers, so they would not confuse the user
Summary
Spatial data processing and creation of map outputs by applying geographic information systems (GIS) are conventional practice in many fields. The need to devote time to Church administration in the 18th century became apparent during the preparation of the Academic Atlas of Czech History [23]. This topic was developed within the author’s thesis [21]. The main outcome of the research is a web mapping application presenting collected data – in more detail discussed in the following text. The site contains other useful materials, such as texts about history of Church administration and religious communities in the Czech lands, specialized dictionary of religious terms, map application help, FAQs, downloads and so on. General public may use website to ease genealogical search for ancestors
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