Historical GIS and Guidebooks: Czechoslovak Tourist Attractions

The following dataset of geolocated travel guide toponyms was compiled in the process of a research project Historical GIS and Guidebooks: A Scalable Reading of Czechoslovak Tourist Attractions (Bechmann Pedersen & Johansson, forthcoming) in which we performed a scalable reading of three travel guides of the former Czechoslovak lands as they were cirka 1959. We used a specialized, open-sourced tool CITADEL created for this project, which in itself relies on open-sourced data from GeoNames and WikiData. Our primary sources were the following three travel guides: Čedok/Nagel, 1959, Czechoslovakia Čedok, 1928 Guide to the Czechoslovak Republic Baedker, 1905 Austria–Hungary including Dalmatia and Bosnia All files are tab separated values (.tsv) files with utf-8 encoding. Three lists of positions with associated toponyms Two lists of clusters There are three files of the first type: CITADEL_1905Baedeker_toponyms.tsv CITADEL_1928Cedok_toponyms.tsv CITADEL_1959Nagel_toponyms.tsv Columns for toponym files Column Explanation Toponym_first_used First toponym recorded in the database that is linked to the position Toponym_added The toponym as spellled in the travel guide Source A shorthand used to identify the travel guide PositionID The unique identifier of a position, using the GeoNames or WikiData identifiers where applicable. Longitude - Latitude - Year The year of the travel guide Weight The weight reflects the number of entries the toponym has in the index. Nagel1928 does not use this convention, and the weight is instead based on the relative page count. There are two files of the second type: CITADEL_1905,1928,1959_4km_clusters.tsv CITADEL_1928,1959_4km_clusters.tsv Columns for the cluster files Column Explanation years The years represented in the cluster Latitude - Longitude - cnt_points The number of points represented in the cluster cnt_toponyms The number of toponyms represented in the cluster cnt_toponyms_<source> The number of toponyms from <source> represented in the cluster