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Historical population data in Geographic Information System environment

Publication at Faculty of Science |
2016

Abstract

The article describes the main applied results of a four-year research project supported by the Czech Ministry of Culture, which has been realised in cooperation of geographers, demographers, historians and cartographers. The main objective of the conducted research was to enable cartographic visualisation of historical population data in Geographic Information System environment.

The article offers a description of the main research outputs of the project, which were focused on the development of demographic, social and ethnic structure in Prague and Czechia during the 20th century, to specific audience of historical demographers.