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license: cc-by-nc-sa-4.0
language:
  - zh
tags:
  - geography
  - gis
  - china
  - historical
  - mbtiles
  - map-tiles
pretty_name: CHGIS Map (MBTiles)
size_categories:
  - 100M<n<1B

CHGIS Map — MBTiles

This dataset contains a MBTiles file of raster PNG tiles generated from the natural geography shapefiles of the China Historical GIS (CHGIS) Version 6 project.

Source

CHGIS Version 6 is produced by:

  • Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University
  • Center for Historical Geographical Studies, Fudan University

Published December 2016. Project homepage: https://chgis.fas.harvard.edu/data/chgis/v6/

Recommended citation:

CHGIS, Version: 6. © Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies of Harvard University and the Center for Historical Geographical Studies at Fudan University, 2016.

Contents

File Description
chgis_map.mbtiles Raster (PNG) tiles derived from CHGIS v6 natural geography shapefiles.

Coverage

  • Temporal scope: Historical China through ~1911
  • Layers: Natural geography only — DEM, hillshade, rivers, lakes. Does not include administrative divisions.
  • Tile format: PNG (raster)
  • Zoom levels: 3–8
  • Projection: EPSG:3857 (WGS 84 / Pseudo-Mercator, Web Mercator)

License

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0).

Free for academic research. No commercial use, resale, or redistribution permitted.

Usage

The .mbtiles file can be served with tools such as:

Or accessed programmatically via any SQLite client (MBTiles is a SQLite database).

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