Promoting the heritage of the city of San Cristobal de La Laguna through a temporal link with a 16th century map

A novel web application successfully geolocates modern addresses of San Cristóbal de La Laguna, a UNESCO World Heritage city in the Canary Islands, onto its first known 16th-century map. By employing non-parametric natural transform interpolation, researchers achieved high accuracy with a global mean error of just 4.9 meters, reducing to 3.2 meters within the historic city center. This tool offers a unique temporal link between past and present, enhancing heritage promotion and public engagement. The application demonstrated robust performance, handling 50 concurrent users with a latency of 1.4 seconds, making it both precise and user-friendly.

Pérez Nava, F., Sánchez Berriel, I., Pérez Nava, A., Gutiérrez Rodríguez, V., & Pérez Morera, J. (2022). Promoting the heritage of the city of San Cristobal de La Laguna through a temporal link with a 16th century map. Virtual Archaeology Review, 13(26), 62–75. https://doi.org/10.4995/var.2022.15322