Towards the automated large-scale reconstruction of past road networks from historical maps

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2202.04883v2
• Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2022 09:44:02 GMT
• Title: Towards the automated large-scale reconstruction of past road networks from historical maps
• Abstract summary: We propose a framework that employs increasingly available scanned and georeferenced historical map series to reconstruct past road networks. We tested our method on over 300,000 road segments representing more than 50,000 km of the road network in the United States.
• Score: 5.902781409284461
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Transportation infrastructure, such as road or railroad networks, represent a fundamental component of our civilization. For sustainable planning and informed decision making, a thorough understanding of the long-term evolution of transportation infrastructure such as road networks is crucial. However, spatially explicit, multi-temporal road network data covering large spatial extents are scarce and rarely available prior to the 2000s. Herein, we propose a framework that employs increasingly available scanned and georeferenced historical map series to reconstruct past road networks, by integrating abundant, contemporary road network data and color information extracted from historical maps. Specifically, our method uses contemporary road segments as analytical units and extracts historical roads by inferring their existence in historical map series based on image processing and clustering techniques. We tested our method on over 300,000 road segments representing more than 50,000 km of the road network in the United States, extending across three study areas that cover 53 historical topographic map sheets dated between 1890 and 1950. We evaluated our approach by comparison to other historical datasets and against manually created reference data, achieving F-1 scores of up to 0.95, and showed that the extracted road network statistics are highly plausible over time, i.e., following general growth patterns. We demonstrated that contemporary geospatial data integrated with information extracted from historical map series open up new avenues for the quantitative analysis of long-term urbanization processes and landscape changes far beyond the era of operational remote sensing and digital cartography.

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