Toolbox for the management of historic centers

Abstract

In Honduras as an action of urban management Historical Centers have initiated recovery processes, as goal to protect cultural patrimony. Among the identified actions in these processes, is the patrimony documentation. In order to facilitate later retrieval, several criteria and methodologies are required in the gathering of information. So that there is a need to identify instruments that guide these processes territorial management.

Technologies as well as specialized software in cartographic data are very useful in this area. Now days the systems of geographic information are a strong tool for the analysis socio - spatial and the territorial planning. As a substantial contribution of the thesis investigation “The geographic information system as a technological tool for the patrimony management”, has been generated conceptually and a methodologically since technical criteria, a box of tools for the historical centers management to provide technological support to the process patrimony management.

We present the necessary tools for building geographic information systems, designed as a support tool in the management of the territory, in this case historical centers Hondurans.

Revista Ciencias Espaciales, Volumen 8, Número 2 Otoño, 2015; 193-210