---
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](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.

## 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:
- [TileServer GL](https://github.com/maptiler/tileserver-gl)
- [Martin](https://github.com/maplibre/martin)
- [mbview](https://github.com/mapbox/mbview)

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

## Related Datasets

- [cbdb/cbdb-sqlite](https://huggingface.co/datasets/cbdb/cbdb-sqlite) — China Biographical Database (CBDB) SQLite