Late Ottoman Empire and Mandate Palestine are two important periods preceding independent Israel, characterized by increased attention to Palestine along with modernization processes and substantial landscape changes. Significant increase is also noted in survey and mapping, resulting in a wealth of visual sources. However, while textual sources were used intensively in various studies, the latter were analyzed to a much lesser extent. A major discipline based on the study of visual sources is historical geography. However, lately it seems that historical geography worldwide seeks for new approaches while struggling to retain dominancy in an environment becoming more computerized and technological. In this article I review the opportunities, pitfalls, and challenges of incorporating GIScience into the historical geography of late Ottoman and Mandate Palestine. Accordingly, it is suggested that a proper integration will contribute a substantial theoretical and methodological novelty while boosting the discipline of historical geography as well as other social sciences and humanities disciplines.

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利用GIS科学推进奥斯曼帝国晚期和英国授权巴勒斯坦的历史地理学

奥斯曼帝国晚期和巴勒斯坦统治是以色列独立之前的两个重要时期，其特点是人们对巴勒斯坦的关注日益增加，同时现代化进程和景观也发生了重大变化。在勘测和制图中还注意到显着增加，从而产生了大量的视觉资源。但是，尽管在各种研究中都大量使用了文本来源，但对后者的分析程度却要低得多。基于视觉资源研究的主要学科是历史地理学。但是，最近看来，世界范围内的历史地理学都在寻求新方法，同时努力在越来越计算机化和技术化的环境中保持优势地位。在本文中，我回顾了机遇，陷阱，以及将GIS科学纳入奥斯曼帝国和巴勒斯坦统治后期的历史地理的挑战。因此，建议适当的整合将在促进历史地理学以及其他社会科学和人文学科的发展的同时，为理论和方法上的新颖性带来实质性的贡献。