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Geospatial Tool Development for the Management of Historical Hiking Trails—The Case of the Holy Site of Meteora

Land (Basel), 2023-08, Vol.12 (8), p.1530 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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  • Title:
    Geospatial Tool Development for the Management of Historical Hiking Trails—The Case of the Holy Site of Meteora
  • Author: Potsiou, Chryssy ; Ioannidis, Charalabos ; Soile, Sofia ; Boutsi, Argyro-Maria ; Chliverou, Regina ; Apostolopoulos, Konstantinos ; Gkeli, Maria ; Bourexis, Fotis
  • Subjects: Archaeology ; Biodiversity ; Community ; Computer software industry ; Crowdsourcing ; Cultural heritage ; Data collection ; Decision making ; Documentation ; Ecotourism ; geodatabase ; Geographic information systems ; Geospatial data ; GIS ; Hiking ; Historic buildings & sites ; Historic sites ; Historic trails ; Information processing ; Information retrieval ; Mosaics ; Multimedia ; Planning ; Redevelopment ; Spatial analysis ; Spatial data ; surveying documentation ; Surveys ; Sustainability ; Sustainable development ; Tourism ; trail hiking ; Trails ; World Heritage Areas
  • Is Part Of: Land (Basel), 2023-08, Vol.12 (8), p.1530
  • Description: This paper presents a holistic guiding methodology for the development of a geospatial tool to be used for the documentation, planning, smart management and dissemination of a country’s network of historic hiking trails. To deal with the challenges and to ensure the sustainability of a historic site, geospatial documentation merging authoritative and crowdsourced data and a WebGIS-based spatial analysis is necessary. Geospatial data collection should include professional field surveys, professional and crowdsourced photographic documentation and video recording of the existing historic walking/hiking trails. A geodatabase, structured using relational model technology, including vector spatial entities (feature classes), mosaics (raster) and tabulated data (geodatabase tables), should be developed on a commercial or open platform; in this case, the ArcGIS Pro is used. Entities with embedded descriptive information and metadata for the technical, legal, historical, and administrative context may then be created. An object-oriented data model is needed to connect spatial and descriptive information. Spatial and descriptive queries or correlations between attribute fields of spatial entities must be enabled for specialized information retrieval by either experts or users. Next, a web GIS application to present the developed geodatabase in a visually appealing and informative way is created. It should integrate 2D maps with built-in tools and should support advanced functionalities, such as: (i) pop-ups that display brief information and images about specific spots along the trails; (ii) dynamic visualization of the vertical profile of each trail; (iii) multimedia information about landmarks, natural features and scenic viewpoints. Finally, the tool includes a feedback service and continuous efficiency monitoring and assessment, and enables adjustments, if and where needed. The tool is tested and used for 10 historical walking/hiking trails of the archaeological and Holy Site of Meteora, Central Greece. This is a UNESCO World Heritage site. The network, with a total length of 35 km, leads to six monasteries, still active since the 12th century, passing by gigantic rocks and beautiful natural landscapes. The site is famous globally and the greater area is continuously overcrowded with visitors. The tool is anticipated to be used for the documentation and management of the whole walking/hiking historic trail network of Greece in the future.
  • Publisher: Basel: MDPI AG
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 2073-445X
    EISSN: 2073-445X
    DOI: 10.3390/land12081530
  • Source: ROAD: Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources
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    DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals
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