AGSL GeoDiscovery

China East coast: City of Shanghai (Raster Image)

Description:

This layer is a georeferenced image of a map of Shanghai that was published in 1944. It shows historical city data including roads, parks, and select buildings. The original map was created by the United States Office of Strategic Services. 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/zh462pr5572

Identifier:

https://purl.stanford.edu/zh462pr5572

Language:

eng

Creator:

Virtual Shanghai Project and United States. Office of Strategic Services

Publisher:

Virtual Shanghai Project

Provider:

Stanford

Resource Class:

Datasets and Maps

Resource Type:

Raster data

Subject:

Maps, Imagery and Base Maps, Structure, and Transportation

Theme:

Imagery, Land Cover, Structure, and Transportation

Temporal Coverage:

1944

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