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Title: Shanghai shi jiedao xiangtu (Raster Image)

Dates

• Issued: 2018
• Coverage: 1946

Publishers

• Virtual Shanghai Project

Summary

This layer is a georeferenced image of a map of Shanghai (originally titled '上海市街道详图/Shanghai shi jiedao xiangtu') that was published in 1946. It shows detailed historical street data of Shanghai, including roads, parks, and select structures. 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. Virtual Shanghai Project. (2018). Shanghai shi jiedao xiangtu (Raster Image). Virtual Shanghai Project. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/df634mk1844 This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.

Subjects

• Society
• Structure
• Transportation
• Shanghai (China)
• Maps
• Historical geography
• Imagery and Base Maps
• Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

• Bounding Box: BBOX (121.3882458, 121.5511431, 31.2964845, 31.1856938)
• Geometry: BBOX (121.3882458, 121.5511431, 31.2964845, 31.1856938)

Provider

Stanford

Rights

• Access rights: Public

Citation

Virtual Shanghai Project. Shanghai shi jiedao xiangtu (Raster Image). Virtual Shanghai Project. Raster data. https://purl.stanford.edu/df634mk1844

Format

GeoTIFF

Languages

• English