Title: Military Staff Map, Central Asia, 1885 (Raster Image)
- Raster data
- 2013
- Not owned by MIT (Owned by Harvard)
Dates
- Issued: 2013-11
- Coverage: 1885
Publishers
- Harvard Map Collection, Harvard Library
Summary
This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Wyld's military staff map of Central Asia and Afghanistan, published by James Wyld, Geographer to the Queen. It was published by James Wyld in 1885. Scale ca. 1:2,027,520. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Asia North Lambert Conformal Conic coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as drainage, cities and other human settlements, territorial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Includes also international boundaries, railways and roads. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.
Subjects
- Boundaries
- Transportation
- Asia
- Turkmenistan
- Uzbekistan
- Afghanistan
- Tajikistan
- Kyrgyzstan
- Pakistan
- Maps
- Human settlements
- Cities and towns
- Villages
- Landforms
- Bodies of water
- Land use
- Infrastructure (Economics)
- Military topography
- imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
- intelligenceMilitary
- Datasets
Geospatial coordinates
- Bounding Box: BBOX (44.116089, 84.118155, 50.970525, 20.915866)
- Geometry: BBOX (44.116089, 84.118155, 50.970525, 20.915866)
Provider
Harvard
Rights
- Access rights: Public
Citation
Harvard Map Collection, Harvard Library, Wyld, James, 1812-1887. Military Staff Map, Central Asia, 1885 (Raster Image). Harvard Map Collection, Harvard Library. Raster data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-g7405-1885-w9
Format
GeoTIFF