Abstract
Historical geography study group ofthe human geographical society of Japan and computerand humanities study group of information processing society of Japan co-organized the symposium on the perspective of the historical GIS at Tezukayama University on 25, 26 July, 2009. The symposium was composed of five sessions; digital gazetteer, 4DGIS architecture, old maps, historical demography, and historical settlements. It became clear that the following four points are the most important subjects for historical geographers to accept HGIS as an essential method. 1. To propose a new viewpoint for analyzing the region, common people, and history with HGIS. 2. To store, open, and share the result of the research work with HGIS. 3. To develop a new architecture for 4DGIS having geo-temporal data analysis function. 4. To construct a digital gazetteer having address matching function.
