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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 |
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| # CHGIS Map — MBTiles |
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| This dataset contains a [MBTiles](https://github.com/mapbox/mbtiles-spec) file of raster PNG tiles generated from the **natural geography shapefiles** of the **China Historical GIS (CHGIS) Version 6** project. |
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| ## Source |
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| **CHGIS Version 6** is produced by: |
| - Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University |
| - Center for Historical Geographical Studies, Fudan University |
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| Published December 2016. Project homepage: https://chgis.fas.harvard.edu/data/chgis/v6/ |
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| Recommended citation: |
| > *CHGIS, Version: 6*. © Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies of Harvard University and the Center for Historical Geographical Studies at Fudan University, 2016. |
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| ## Contents |
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| | File | Description | |
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| | `chgis_map.mbtiles` | Raster (PNG) tiles derived from CHGIS v6 natural geography shapefiles. | |
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| ## Coverage |
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| - **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) |
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| ## License |
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| Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International ([CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)). |
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| Free for academic research. No commercial use, resale, or redistribution permitted. |
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| ## Usage |
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| The `.mbtiles` file can be served with tools such as: |
| - [TileServer GL](https://github.com/maptiler/tileserver-gl) |
| - [Martin](https://github.com/maplibre/martin) |
| - [mbview](https://github.com/mapbox/mbview) |
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| Or accessed programmatically via any SQLite client (MBTiles is a SQLite database). |
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| ## Related Datasets |
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| - [cbdb/cbdb-sqlite](https://huggingface.co/datasets/cbdb/cbdb-sqlite) — China Biographical Database (CBDB) SQLite |
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