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The paper presents a new approach in the research and data management of historical 2D topographic documentation, by means of potentially widely accessible and various technologies. Although historical maps and city plans database archives are plenty on the web, none apparently address their detailed information content (graphic elements such as streets, plots, houses etc.; attached text such as street and building names, toponyms etc.). Still, the content of a map or city plan is usually what interests us the most, whether we are historians, architects, real estate developers, students or simply amateurs for our city's history. Starting from a quite different range of interest – antique urban settlements' configuration, with all it implies –, the many challenges that occurred in the research flow often brought me to various technical issues of data management, of which one is data content of image based documentation. In this material I've detailed such issues related to cartographic representations, through a case study on the antique city of Callatis(today Mangalia, Romania).

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2D Topographic Data Management: A Case Study on Callatis' General Site Plans

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