CHGIS: China Historical GIS Project

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CHGIS China Historical GIS Project
Merrick Lex Berman
PNC - ECAI, Hong Kong, Jan 2001
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Robert Hartwells China History Project
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Tan Qixiangs Historical Atlas of China
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Skinners Macroregional Analysis
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Crissmans China GIS Datasets
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1. Place-names, variant names
2. Administrative hierarchy
3. Administrative coding system
4. Locations of settlements
5. Identification of capitals and administrative
seats
6. Spatial data in GIS
7. Selection of records by spatial or temporal
query
8. Layer comparison and import of other datasets
Objectives in the CHGIS project design
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Administrative Change Table
Variant Name Table Place Geocode Table Capital
Feature Table Administrative Seat Table Admin
Hierarchy Table Feature Classification
Table Temporal Sequence Table Spatial Data
Table Version Variant Code Table
one to one
one to many
Administrative Feature Table
one to one
Historical Administrative Code Table
Tables in the relational database
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Historical Administrative Units and Codes
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Settlement Points form the base GIS platform
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Depicting uncertain boundaries
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CHGIS China Historical GIS Project
website fas.harvard.edu/chgis