Literature
The following articles provide further information about the generation and use of different types of visualizations of the accuracy of old maps and the computation of statistical measures. This list has not been updated for a while.
There is another page with articles about MapAnalyst and applications of MapAnalyst for the analysis of old maps.
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Thanks to Alberto Giordano for indicating a few references.