ABSTRACT

At the beginning of the twentieth century, a British mapping team led by Captain S. F. Newcombe surveyed and mapped the Negev region, Sinai, and western Jordan. The map was mainly produced for military use. Consequently, it included a network of branched routes, water supplies and facilities, and topographic contours. This study used this map to examine the development of routes in the Negev region between the beginning of and until the end of the twentieth century. First, the individual sheets comprising the study area were pieced together and the accuracy of the map was evaluated. The accuracy found on the Newcombe map was 0.76 mm on the map scale, equivalent to 100.3 m. Route development during the twentieth century was then evaluated by comparing the routes digitized from the Newcombe map to digitized routes on a late twentieth-century map. The results do not reveal tremendous changes in path, shape, or number of routes. Instead, they merely indicate the natural development in their quality. This Historical GIS-based approach provided a useful technique for analyzing and comparing the line segments extracted from historical and modern maps. The implemented approach may also serve other geographical or historical studies aiming to examine the development of branched networks throughout history.

摘要

二十世纪初，由SF Newcombe上尉领导的英国测绘小组对内盖夫地区，西奈半岛和约旦西部进行了测绘。该地图主要用于军事用途。因此，它包括分支路线，供水和设施以及地形等高线的网络。这项研究使用此地图来检查20世纪初至20世纪末内盖夫地区的路线发展。首先，将组成研究区域的各个页面拼凑在一起，并评估地图的准确性。在纽科姆地图上发现的精度在地图比例尺上为0.76 mm，相当于100.3 m。然后，通过比较从纽康比地图上数字化的路线和二十世纪后期地图上的数字化路线，评估了二十世纪期间的路线发展。结果并未显示出路径，形状或路径数量的巨大变化。相反，它们仅表示质量的自然发展。这种基于历史GIS的方法为分析和比较从历史和现代地图提取的线段提供了有用的技术。所实施的方法还可以用于其他地理或历史研究，旨在研究整个历史中分支网络的发展。