Use of GIS Tools in Sustainable Heritage Management—The Importance of Data Generalization in Spatial Modeling

Mateusz Ciski, Krzysztof Rząsa and Marek Ogryzek
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Mateusz Ciski: The Faculty of Geodesy, Geospatial and Civil Engineering, Institute of Geography and Land Management, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Prawocheńskiego Street 15, 10-720 Olsztyn, Poland
Krzysztof Rząsa: The Faculty of Geodesy, Geospatial and Civil Engineering, Institute of Geography and Land Management, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Prawocheńskiego Street 15, 10-720 Olsztyn, Poland
Marek Ogryzek: The Faculty of Geodesy, Geospatial and Civil Engineering, Institute of Geography and Land Management, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Prawocheńskiego Street 15, 10-720 Olsztyn, Poland

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, issue 20, 1-21

Abstract: Cultural heritage is a very important element affecting the sustainable development. To analyze the various forms of spatial management inscribed into sustainable development, information on the location of objects and their concentration at specific areas is necessary. The main goal of the article was to show the possibility of using various GIS tools in modeling the distribution of historical objects. For spatial analysis, it is optimal to use the point location of objects. Often, however, it is extremely difficult, laborious, expensive, and sometimes impossible to obtain. Thus, various map content generalizations were analyzed in the article; the main goal was to find the level for which the data with an acceptable loss of accuracy can be generalized. Such analyses can be extremely useful in sustainable heritage management. Article also shows how cultural heritage fits into the sustainable heritage management. The research included non-movable monuments in Poland. The obtained results showed the universality of this type of research both in the thematic sense (can be used for various types of objects) and spatial sense (can be performed locally, at the country level, or even at the continental level).

Keywords: cultural heritage; sustainable heritage management; GIS; geographic information system; hexagonal grid; data generalization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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