Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are becoming increasingly popular in historical research, especially in urban contexts. However, digitizing historical sources in a way that can be mapped using the Cartesian co-ordinate systems of a GIS is often challenging, especially so in the case of records pre-dating centralized property registers or street numbering. This article explores how the vernacular spatial descriptions used in several case-studies of documents from late medieval and early modern London can be translated and geocoded into GIS compatible co-ordinates in a sympathetic way. Translating this data from a historical spatial paradigm into a modern one unlocks a whole range of new insights into spatial patterns, networks and relationships which would not have been feasible to construct using traditional methods

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重新诠释空间：使用 GIS 绘制中世纪晚期和现代早期英国城市中的人物和关系图

地理信息系统 (GIS) 在历史研究中越来越受欢迎，尤其是在城市环境中。然而，以一种可以使用 GIS 的笛卡尔坐标系统映射的方式对历史资源进行数字化通常具有挑战性，尤其是在记录早于集中财产登记或街道编号的情况下。本文探讨了如何将中世纪晚期和现代早期伦敦的几个案例研究中使用的白话空间描述翻译和地理编码为与 GIS 兼容的坐标。将这些数据从历史空间范式转化为现代数据，开启了对空间模式、网络和关系的一系列新见解，而使用传统方法构建这些数据是不可行的