Newcastle had a full working UAD GIS (pts/line & polygons linked to mon/event/source db) from about 1994.

Dave

David Heslop

Tyne & Wear Archaeology Specialist

& Monument Manager

Development Management

5th floor Civic Centre

Barras Bridge

Newcastle NE1 8QH

From: Issues related to Historic Environment Records [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Chris Webster
Sent: 17 July 2015 11:51
To: Heslop, David
Subject: Re: HER/SMRs and GIS

Somerset started GIS (well, digital mapping) in late 1994 using software called FastMap that EH paid for to do the EUS project. We were a (?the) pilot EUS and certainly got a lot more money than subsequent projects when EH realised that they couldn’t do all the work that they thought could be done. I seem to recall that the original suggestion was an average of 3 days per town (including digitising all the listed buildings).

Roy Canham’s Wiltshire work was also not really GIS in that it used AutoCAD to prepare digital maps (on separate Ordnance Survey sheet lines). It was all very wizzy at the time but actually led to a lot of work when the data had to be converted to a seamless GIS layer.

Chris Webster

Somerset Historic Environment Record

Somerset Heritage Centre

Brunel Way

Taunton

TA2 6SF

01823 347434

Online HER at www.somerset.gov.uk/her

The Somerset HER is managed for Somerset County Council by the South West Heritage Trust.

South West Heritage Trust is a charity and a company limited by guarantee registered in England.

Registered office: Somerset Heritage Centre, Brunel Way, Norton Fitzwarren, Taunton, Somerset TA2 6SF

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From: Issues related to Historic Environment Records [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mike Shaw
Sent: 17 July 2015 11:16
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: HER/SMRs and GIS

Interesting...I had thought that SMRs were early adopters of GIS but this is earlier than I had expected.

Thanks,

Mike

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From: [log in to unmask]">Hopkins, David (ENV)

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Sent: Friday, July 17, 2015 10:13 AM

Subject: Re: HER/SMRs and GIS

You might look at Berkshire or Wiltshire. It was in the very late 1980s that Berkshire was using GIS to display data – In Berkshire we had a lady called Janice in our IT Dept who had specialised in GIS (which was all vey new) for her doctorate and in rolling it out at BCC used the SMR as the test data base to demonstrate the system, so we were able to do really quite good maps at a very early stage. But Wiltshire might have pipped us to the post because I seem to recall Roy Canham was an early adopter and he and I jointly provided some of the early advice to ACAO.

Anyway, very late 1980’s

David

David Hopkins
County Archaeologist
Economy, Transport and Environment Department
Elizabeth II Court West, The Castle, Winchester SO23 8UD

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01962 832339

From: Issues related to Historic Environment Records [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mike Shaw
Sent: 17 July 2015 09:56
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: HER/SMRs and GIS

It’s Friday so....another set of questions on HER/SMR history, tangentially related to my research, but I thought also of interest to a wider group.. Which was the first HER/SMR to use GIS? I know Essex and Northants were both using it from around 1995. Also which were the first EUS, UAD and HLC projects to use GIS? EUS possibly Somerset from 1994? Which would also make them an early adopter of GIS for HER. UAD – Winchester? HLC – Lancashire? Comments please – Chris, Bob, Pete etc. Of course there used to be an SMR Newsletter so maybe something in there if anyone still has copies.

Thanks,

Mike

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