AGSL GeoDiscovery

Plan of Shanghai published under the authority of the Municipal Council (Raster Image)

Description:

This layer is a georeferenced image of a map of Shanghai that was published in 1904. It shows historical city data such as roads, parks, neighborhoods, and select buildings. Virtual Shanghai is a research and resource platform on the history of Shanghai from the mid-nineteenth century to nowadays. It incorporates various sets of documents: essays, original documents, photographs, maps, quantitative data, etc. The objective of the project is to write a history of the city through the combined mobilization of these various types of documents. The implementation of this approach relies on the use of digital and GIS technologies. On the research side, the platform offers various ways to step into the history of the city and follow its course at different levels over time. On the resource side, apart from providing original textual and visual documents, it develops a powerful cartographic tool for spatial analysis and real-time mapping. The authors of the present project subscribe to the idea of sharing scholarship and research tools for the benefit of scholars, students, and citizens at large. This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.

Resource Link:

https://purl.stanford.edu/mz293bw8065

Identifier:

https://purl.stanford.edu/mz293bw8065

Language:

eng

Creator:

Virtual Shanghai Project

Publisher:

Virtual Shanghai Project

Provider:

Stanford

Resource Class:

Datasets and Maps

Resource Type:

Raster data

Subject:

Maps, Historical geography, Imagery and Base Maps, Society, Structure, and Transportation

Theme:

Imagery, Land Cover, Society, Structure, and Transportation

Temporal Coverage:

1904

Date Issued:

2018

Spatial Coverage:

Shanghai (China)

Rights:

This work is in the public domain. There are no restrictions on use.

Rights Holder:

This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.

License:

https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

GeoTIFF

Georeferenced:

true