China Historical GIS Datasets, Pre-Release Version 12 October 2001

China Historical GIS Datasets, Pre-Release Version 12 October 2001

Location:	Massachusetts, United States
Publication Begins:	2001-10-12 (Archive)
Date Submitted:	2001-10-12
Announcement ID:	128727

China Historical GIS (Geographic Information System) datasets have been made available for download from our website.

There are two sets of ArcView shapefiles:

10,880 Cities and Towns and 412 Prefecture Level Polygons (circa Qing Dynasty 1820)
a spatio-temporal database for the Songjiang - Taihu Region (Han Dynasty to Present Day

The shapefile attributes contain placenames (in Pinyin and GBK characters), adminstrative units, lat-long coordinates and present day locations.

This Pre-Release Version was developed for the CHGIS International Workshop on Historical GIS, held recently at Fudan University in Shanghai. We are currently working on revising and improving this data for an Official Release scheduled for Spring of 2002.

For more information on the CHGIS Project, the Shanghai Workshop, and CHGIS online searching tools, please visit our website below.

CHGIS - Harvard Yenching Insitute
Van Serg Hall 20, 25 Francis Ave
Cambridge, MA 02138
Email: chgis@fas.harvard.edu
Visit the website at http://fas.harvard.edu/~chgis

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