02 Dec 2003

New China Time Series Historical GIS released
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Supplied note: "For those who are interested the new Time Series CHGIS Version 2.0 datasets have been released and published [...]
In Version 2 a completely new set of county-level polygons (circa 1911 CE) have been constructed using the 1990 ArcChina Basemap. Draft prints of the 1911 county maps were used to construct space-time composite polgyons to show boundary changes over time, which were then digitized into GIS. The process is described [in:]
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~chgis/data/chgis/downloads/v2/compilation.html
The resulting Time Series database, showing continuous series of historical changes from 222 BCE to 1911 CE has been completed for the Southeast Coastal area (including Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangsu). Work continues on the areas for which the 1911 counties have been completed (including Guangdong, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei, Henan, Shanxi), as does the reconstruction of additional 1991 counties.
All of the data is available for download from the main CHGIS website: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~chgis/
or on CD-ROM from Cheng & Tsui Company.
The CHGIS data has also been integrated with NIMA and CITAS datasets (totaling 250,000 records) in our online search engine, allowing the user to search by place-name, feature type, year, and dataset. Access the search engine from the main website SEARCH TOOLS section. - mlb."
[The CHGIS project has been established in Dec 2000 under the aegis of the Harvard-Yenching Institute and Harvard University. The CHGIS develops a standardized coding system to identify historical administrative units and settlements for different periods in Chinese History. It provides a GIS platform for spatial analysis, temporal statistical modeling, and representation of selected historical units as digital maps. The project, which builds on the work of the late Robert M. Hartwell, intends to make the multi-lingual base GIS available to the scholarly community at no charge through download sites throughout the world. - ed.]
URL http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~chgis/
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