GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM (GIS) FOR THE TRADITIONAL ARGICULTURAL SETTLEMENT OF ASFONTYLITI IN AMORGOS (original) (raw)

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) create the basis for dynamic, integrated data management leading to the creation of a modern recording of our cultural heritage. This feature of GIS is the main tool for the documentation and preservation of our cultural wealth. In this project, we represent an attempt to build on the fundamental characteristics of GIS, which is the connection between spatial and descriptive data into a single reference system in order to create a standard model registration of traditional rural settlements of Greece. Furthermore, we examine different ways in order to use this model in the future to build a web application that will be able to be used by both specialist and non-specialists users as a travel guide of the settlements. As an example of this application, we selected and present the traditional rural settlement of Asfontylitis in Amorgos Island. The settlement of Asfontylitis, is a small rural village in Oxo Meria of Amorgos, which is concerned as a rare and unique example of the traditional Cycladic Architecture. The settlement is also known since pre-historic years as one of the most important historical places of the Island. The data collected using classic topographic methods and architectural analysis with in situ documentation and mapping of the whole area, are recorded and organized in a Geographical Information System (GIS), using as spatial background the topographic mapping of the settlement. After this first “in situ” documentation, the Geographical Information System, is organized and enhanced in different forms and ways that are presented in this project, so as to create a standard recording registry of this rural settlement.

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