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With Farouk, we have set up he data model for geographical time-space cartography. This consist in four tables. The two central table are for cities and networks. As we want to explore time-space through time, it is necessary to have time data on the population of cities. The idea is to introduce a threshold so that only cities with a given population will show at a given period in time.[caption id="attachment_93" align="alignleft" width="580"] Geographical time-space relief cartography data model[/caption]Transport networks are described as graphs with cities as edges. An edge in the network has a starting year, and also an end year. Transport modes are described through transport modes, characterized by their commercial speed. Start year and end year are provided in order to describe, for instance, the Concorde period. For the twentieth and twenty first centuries, the transport modes are road, motorway, rail, high-speed rail, planes, and supersonic planes.To each transport mode is associated a table of speed varying in time, in order to consider the temporal acceleration of trains, of places in the historical time.