On Spatial History

Different aspects of history are expressed most effectively in alternate methods. In the geographical realm, maps over time are expressions and proofs of how the human race  represented their understading of the world, society, factors which are overlapped and explain phemomena.

If one explains a variant over the same map while it would change over time, we can show snippets of these data points and the illusion of change over static data. In parallel, statistic data that would be expressed over a slope cannot be precisely explained at a single time because it is ever changing. However, we can provide aspects of truth over different periods through expressions with descriptions.

Put simply, over a plane, if a point is in two positions, we assume that the first moves to the latter in the shortest distance. With more data marked with time, the allusion of movement. This can apply to anything with a variety of dimensions, hence the nomenclature ‘spatial’.

Maps have been used since the beginning of man* to share the knowledge of known information and understanding of the universe with other people. In electronic historical documents, maps are easily lain over with other bits of information that support the truths that can no longer be witnessed from the fluidity of time.

However, just like any historical document, with the perfect amount of information given or retracted, the favored truth can be presented. Typically, when the angle of information is so limited to focus on single data points, the observer is limited in seeing the data only through that lens. Like any statistic, when the information is presented in such a way, any argument can be protrayed. However, in the historic projects provided by the University of Richmond and George Mason – we can find that the information given simply shows phenomena over time, and specifically in one area. There are flaws in assumption when similar phenomena that arise in different areas could be related, and each  of these examples give descriptions why these situations are so particular.