Practice question · True or false
A GIS layer labelled 'as they were in the eighteenth century' can misrepresent the past even when every feature on it is accurate.
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- Did all the features exist at one moment?
- A century-wide layer is a composite.
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True
Why
True. Features drawn from across a century may never have coexisted, so the map shows a moment that never happened. Each element can be individually correct while the composite is false, which is why historical GIS layers carry a date range and are queried by date rather than displayed whole.
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