The purpose of this study is to restore the traffic routes around Gwangju, Gyeonggi province in Joseon Dynasty period using the Historical Geographic Information System(HGIS) accordingly. For this, a variety of relevant literatures, including old maps...
The purpose of this study is to restore the traffic routes around Gwangju, Gyeonggi province in Joseon Dynasty period using the Historical Geographic Information System(HGIS) accordingly. For this, a variety of relevant literatures, including old maps, gazetteers(地理志) and road guidebooks(程里考) have been analyzed to identify the characteristics of space and attributes of traffic information. The restoration of traffic routes has been conducted
through seven different stages. Stage 1 has conducted building a place-names database and identified the locations
in old maps, gazetteers, and road guidebooks. Stage 2 has built a separate database for intersections on the old maps in addition to the names of places. Stage 3 has extracted the road network of a contemporary topographical map for a precise restoration of roads. Stage 4 has restored the road network in late Joseon period. Stage 5 has restored the arterial roads in Joseon Dynasty period, Stage 6 has restored the traffic routes in Gwangju district in a county map and the stage 7 has restored connections among counties nationwide.