Symposium « Paris from plots to pixels: from Vasserot’s plans to ALPAGE GIS »

Slide presentations from the symposium which concluded the funded phase of the project (2006-2010) can be viewed below (French versions only):

• Cartographic conventions of Vasserot’s urban block plans
• Georeferencing the Vasserot plans
• Automatic vectorisation of the Vasserot plans
• Quality assessment of the Vasserot urban block plans
• A webmapping platform: work tool and data dissemination tool
• First morphological analyses of the parisian plots
• Creation of reference plans for the end of the Middle Ages: urban blocks, roads, parishes, parish sub-districts.
• Geolocalisation of the ‘rôle de taille‘ (annual tax records based on the value of personal assets) in 1300
• Geolocalisation of the XVIII century urban ‘censives‘ (territory ruled by a lord)
• Mapping the aristocratic ‘Hôtels’ (aristocratic mansions) in 1300 and in 1400
• Geolocalisation of religious establishments of the early Middle Ages
• The layout of the medevial city walls (10^th to 13^th century)
• The Charles V wall
• The Fossés jaunes wall
• Historians, geographers et computer scientists: three years of trois ans of collaborative work. The future of the ALPAGE tool.