Converting the Mental Maps to Digital Data in –GIS in The Old City of Tripoli, Libya
Converting the Mental Maps to Digital Data in –GIS in The Old City of Tripoli, Libya
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18444157Keywords:
The Old City of Tripoli, Islamic city, deterioration, identity, geographic information system (GIS)Abstract
Incorporating the opinions of stakeholders is a challenge for urban planners, particularly when neighborhoods and buildings are important to the history of an entire country. In the other hand, the methodologies was chosen for the study is Geographic information system to analyze the layers that have for area of study. The big challenge is how to use the mental maps information in the GIS layers. This is the case with The Old City of Tripoli, Libya. The methodology proposed here takes a participatory approach (collecting and converting the opinions of a variety of people about the Old City of Tripoli) Most people leam to navigate in their surroundings or even in unknown territory, to draw a way in their mined of most important places and roads to be the roadmap for their daily trips. Most of the time these maps are as with much effort and indecision these observation caried out the different opinions to be the one of main points for the research. The findings of this research are helping to form a viable strategy for residents, former residents, interested people, planners, and developers to understand how people's perceptions can affect the conservation efforts for historical cities. The use of geographic information system (GIS) technology provided layers of the area of study, this research is converting the opinion of people (social information to be a layer in GIS layers of the area of study) by using GIS tools to added to the GIS layer results depicting the contrast between the informants opinions and the realty of the Old City of Tripoli.
Key words: The Old City of Tripoli, Islamic city, deterioration, identity, geographic information system (GIS
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