Tài liệu lịch sử, chẳng hạn như tài liệu, chứng cứ được khai quật, là chính nguồn nghiên cứu lịch sử. Những nguồn này thường cho thấy một số mối quan hệ không gian ở thời đại học. Để có hiệu quả xử lý thông tin đó, địa lý hệ thống thông tin (GIS) có thể được áp dụngts Through Spatial Reasoning Yasushi Asami, Takanori Kimura, Masashi Haneda, and Naoko Fukami CONTENTS Introduction 153 Spatial Data. 155 Search for the Route 156 Consistency with Building Use. 156 Consistency of Branching Off of Road 156 Consistency of Turning. | 11__ Estimation of Routes and Building Sites Described in Premodern Travel Accounts Through Spatial Reasoning Yasushi Asami Takanori Kimura Masashi Haneda and Naoko Fukami CONTENTS Spatial Search for the Consistency with Building Consistency of Branching Off of Consistency of Turning Direction Left or Right .157 Consistency of Direction North East South and West .157 Judgment of Judgment of Priority in Route Route of Maximum Degree of Fitness and Estimation of Locations of Introduction Historical materials such as documents and excavated evidences are major sources of historical studies. These sources often show some spatial relationships at the era studied. To efficiently handle such information geographical information systems GIS can be applied. Sometimes the location of historical facilities is of particular interest when they are critical to revealing historical evidences. If excavated evidence is 153 Copyright 2006 Taylor Francis Group LLC 154 GIS-based Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences FIGURE Isfahan in Iran. already known there will be no need to search for the location. There are however a number of facilities whose locations are not known. In such cases historical documents if any are the only source of inferring the location. For this purpose spatial reasoning can be of potential use. Spatial reasoning is an attempt to infer the spatial location and relationship in spatial-information science. It involves the coding of information concerning spatial locations and inference concerning spatial relationship Hernandez 1994 Vieu 1997 . By coding the spatial information specific spatial relationships can be focused on and topologically or quantitatively analyzed. This chapter illustrates the .
