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Hajime Kato
Modern-style
Historical Map Design
with QGIS
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CONTENTS 01
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Who am I?
Background
Method
Result
Future prospects
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01 Who am I?
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Graphic Designer
Hajime Kato
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Self-introduction
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●~2022 Tokyo
●2022~ Hokkaido
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Self-introduction
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●~2022 Tokyo
●2022~ Hokkaido
© MIERUNE | © MapTiler © OpenStreetMap contributors
I am here!
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Self-introduction
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●Favourite musician in Korea
○Peppertones
Apple Music
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●MIERUNE Inc.
●Graphic designer
●Company's promotional tools, novelties, etc.
Works
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보이네
MIERUNE ݟ͑ΔͶ
means
p[b]oine
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visualizing geospatial data
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FOSS4G 2023 Prizren
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2023.10.26-27
PyCon APAC
2023.10.28
Vue Fes Japan 2023
Sponsored PyCon / Vue Fes
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Reserve Sapporo Streetcar
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Are you just enjoying
the events? 🤔
No, We’re working properly! 😀
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G7 Sustainable Urban Development Ministers'
Meeting in Takamatsu - Making Minecraft data
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Japanese Forestry Agency
Forest data processing / WebGIS development
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And so on...We're doing a lot of things.
Information is sent via X and website!
Website
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Okay, so what are you
doing?😏
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Make things related to
company design!🎨
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Hobby works
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●Like maps and route maps,
so I’ve posted my hobby works on Twitter.
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Lake Biwa
Lake Toya
© MIERUNE | © MapTiler © OpenStreetMap contributors
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02 background
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Background in Society
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●Walking around town, walking old highway
are popular in Japan
●Related services such as books and maps
are existed
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Background in Personal
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●I've liked maps all long, and interested in old
maps. However…
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Tenpo-kuniezu “Awa-no-kuni” National Archives Digital Archive
Written with an
ink brush, so
hard to read😭
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“Tsukiji Hatchobori Nihombashi-minami ezu” National Diet Library Digital Collection
Orientation of
random
letters…😢
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Actually, the
orientation of the
letters indicates
the location of
the front gate to
the building! 😲
NHK “Bi-no-tsubo”
https://www.nhk.or.jp/tsu
bo/arc-20081010.html
Front
Gate
“Tsukiji Hatchobori Nihombashi-minami ezu” National Diet Library Digital Collection
Front
Gate
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●Poor visibility/readability
●Orientation of random characters
●Low map accuracy
Issue
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Create with modern map design!
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05 Method
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Periodization of Japan
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Edo Modern
Contem-
porary
1868 1945
1603
Middle Edo
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●Compared to modern maps, accuracy is low
Accuracy of Edo maps
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Tempo-kuniezu “Musashi-no-kuni” National Archives Digital Archive
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“Ansei Kaisei Edo Oezu” National Diet Library Digital Collection
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●1880s Map ‘Jinsoku-zu’ “Historical Agricultural
Environment Browsing System” *
●Old Edition Maps “Konjaku Map” **
Use early modern maps
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* https://habs.rad.naro.go.jp/
** https://ktgis.net/kjmapw/
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“Jinsoku-zu” Historical Agricultural Environment Viewing System,
National Agriculture and Food Research Organization
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●Open source GIS
software
●used worldwide
https://qgis.org/
Build the basis of map
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●Use Edo map, early modern map, and current
map
●Draw coastlines, roads, borders, shipping
routes, etc. on QGIS
Build the basis of map
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National Archives Digital Archive Historical Agricultural Environment
Browsing System
Edo Map Early modern Map
Geographical Survey Institute
Current Map
Draw routes,
coastlines, etc.
Correct errors
Determine and
extract routes,
coastlines, etc.
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Basemap: Geographical Survey Institute
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●Plot POIs based on old maps and documents
from the time.
●The locations of villages and towns were
estimated from modern maps and dictionaries.
Adding POI
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“Edo-meisho-zue vol.7 [1] 1-3:1” National Diet Library Digital Collection
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Nihombashi
Kyobashi
Basemap: Geographical Survey Institute
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●Create original map cartography and icons!
Cartography / Map Icons
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Pass Ferry/
Port
Temple Theatre Barrier Gate Tea-
house
Mountain Post-
town
Shrine Land-
mark
Bridge Castle Market
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●Use public organization sources
●NOT use information from commercial maps
such as Google Maps.
Points of attention
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●Export tiles on QGIS
Create map-tile
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https://qgis.org/
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●Display map with MapLibre
Mapping Libraries
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https://maplibre.org/
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●Tiles are divided into folders by zoom level
Upload tiles
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●Data become larger as the zoom level increases
Upload tiles
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●Unzip compressed
files on server
Upload tiles
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06 Result
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https://rekichizu.jp/map/
Rekichizu Search
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07 Future prospects
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●Fewer POIs
●Only up to zoom level 15
●Raster tile
Current issues
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●Split-screen view
●Information display
●Multilingual display
●Route Searching
Future prospects
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Split-screen view
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Geographical Survey Institute
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Information display
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“Meisho-edo-hyakkei Gohyaku-Rakan-
Sazuido”
National Diet Library Digital Collection
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Multilingual display
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“Meisho-edo-hyakkei Gohyaku-Rakan-
Sazuido”
National Diet Library Digital Collection
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Route searching
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●Plan to use historical place name open data*
to update the map.
Using opendata
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* https://codh.rois.ac.jp/
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One more thing…
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●MIERUNE has decided to develop “Rekichizu” as
a project.
Developed by the company
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Thank you!
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My website
Rekichizu