ABSTRACT As digital projects continue to grow in popularity, traditional concerns around evidence and argumentation linger. Some of these concerns are very old, such as the consequences of using European sources to write the history of West Africa. In response to this, some scholars have turned to digital platforms to expand the range, analysis, and design of their historical research. New Maps of Old Lagos, for instance, is a web-based collection of cartographic narratives focusing on the history of Lagos. It demonstrates how, with ArcGIS and other mapping tools, European colonial maps can be used in combination with indigenous knowledge as sources to reconstruct local urban spatial patterns in old Lagos. In the eighteenth and nineteenth century, Yoruba-speaking peoples settled and built towns and cities on West Africa’s Bight of Benin. However, very little evidence of the history of cities like Lagos exists outside of oral traditions passed down through generations, and beneath the uneven settlement of the British colonial city that was built on top of and around it. New Maps deploys archival evidence and urban fieldwork to begin the process of plotting the old city by finding its boundaries, its physical features, and plotting meaningful sites and scenes around Lagos Island. These vignettes are hosted online at newmapsoldlagos.com

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绘制旧的拉各斯：过去的数字历史和地图

摘要随着数字项目的继续流行，围绕证据和论证的传统担忧持续存在。这些担忧中的一些已经很久了，例如使用欧洲资源撰写西非历史的后果。为此，一些学者转向数字平台，以扩大其历史研究的范围，分析和设计。例如，旧拉各斯的新地图是一个基于网络的制图故事集，重点放在拉各斯的历史上。它演示了如何通过ArcGIS和其他地图工具将欧洲殖民地地图与本地知识结合使用，以重建旧拉各斯当地的城市空间格局。在18世纪和19世纪，讲约鲁巴语的人在西非的贝宁湾定居并建造了城镇。然而，像拉各斯这样的城市的历史的证据很少存在于几代人传承下来的口头传统之外，而在建立在其上空或周围的英国殖民城市的不平衡定居点之下。新地图部署了档案证据和城市野外工作，通过查找旧城区的边界，其物理特征以及在拉各斯岛周围绘制有意义的地点和场景，开始了绘制旧城区的过程。这些小插曲在线托管在newmapsoldlagos.com上 它的物理特征，并在拉各斯岛周围绘制有意义的景点和场景。这些小插曲在线托管在newmapsoldlagos.com上 它的物理特征，并在拉各斯岛周围绘制有意义的景点和场景。这些小插曲在线托管在newmapsoldlagos.com上