GIS: Visualising Changing Land Use

Visualising Changing Land Use in GIS

This visualisation shows changing land usage on the home farm of the Courtown Estate, Co. Wexford between 1915 and 1928.

I scanned a second series Ordnance Survey map and uploaded it to ArcGIS where I georeferenced it. I then digitised those fields that made up the home farm, creating a layer for each of the years. In the attribute table I noted the land use. Using the time slider functionality I created this visualisation.

Note the symbology:

• Brown – land ‘in hand’

• Green – let land

• Grey – land not let

• Purple – land taken up by the Land Commission