Molnár Gábor – Timár Gábor – Biszak Előd: Can the First Military Survey maps of the Habsburg Empire (1763-1790) be georeferenced by an accuracy of 200 meters? Conference: 9th International Workshop on Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage, Budapest, 2014. Volume: 9. 127–132.

9th International Workshop on Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage

Budapest, 4-5 September 2014

Figure 3. The Wolfgangsee is in wrong position at the western margin of Upper Austria, because of the lack of the control points on the province boundary.

The online version

The result of the completed Habsburg provinces is available for the public via the MAPIRE initiative/project (Biszak et al., this volume). The geo-referred mosaics can be analyzed in a modern (OpenStreetMap or Google) cartographic background. Using the geo-reference of all historic databases in the MAPIRE, the Habsburg military topographic surveys can also be analyzed by coupling them (Fig. 4); providing a virtual time machine for natural or historical environmental and/or landscape studies. Now, with the results of the present study, with the same horizontal reliability.

Figure 4. First Military Survey (left) vs. the Second Military Survey (right) or vicinity of Vienna: virtual time machine, a simultaneous display based on the georeference.