PhDs Tapio Salminen and Jenni Lares (Tampere University) are currently working on the project Viabundus Finland 1350-1650. The aim of the research project (2022-25) is to compile historical geospatial data (HGIS) on traffic routes and traffic related infrastructure of medieval and early modern Finland into a unified database, to create a map interface based on this, and to make them open to the public. The project is part of the European Viabundus project, founded in 2019 by Institut für Historische Landesforschung (University of Göttingen) and The Research Center for Hanse and Baltic History in Lübeck, Germany. In the presentation Tapio will focus on the project in general and the research of history of medieval and early modern roads in Finland and Jenni will discuss the role of different kinds of inns in the organisation of roadside services in 1350-1650, both from the point of view of Historical Geospatial Information Systems and data.

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