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Title: パプア五十万分一圖 -- Papua 1:500,000, Maps Index

Contributors:

Dates

  • Issued: 2023
  • Coverage: 1943

Publishers

  • Stanford Digital Repository

Summary

This polygon shapefile is an index to the map series, 'パプア五十万分一圖 -- Papua 1:500,000.' This map series was originally produced by the Japanese Land Survey Department of the General Staff Headquarters [1943]. Stanford University Libraries holds a large collection of Japanese military and imperial maps, referred to as gaihōzu, or 'maps of outer lands.' These maps were produced starting in the early Meiji (1868-1912) era and the end of World War II by the Land Survey Department of the General Staff Headquarters, the former Japanese Army. The Library is in the process of scanning and making available all of the maps in the collection. This layer provides an index map that can be used to locate individual scanned map sheets. This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.

Subjects

  • Military
  • Papua (Indonesia)
  • Netherlands New Guinea
  • Military maps
  • Topographic maps
  • Index maps
  • Grids (Cartography)
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (125.0, 155.0, 1.666667, -11.666667)
  • Geometry: BBOX (125.0, 155.0, 1.666667, -11.666667)

Provider

Stanford

Rights

  • Access rights: Public

Citation

Stanford Geospatial Center. パプア五十万分一圖 -- Papua 1:500,000, Maps Index. Stanford Digital Repository. https://purl.stanford.edu/br506xz3944

Format

Shapefile

Languages

  • English