Modern China

– ChinaMap a collection of data layers for browsing online as webmaps, many of which can be freely downloaded. These include datasets on: transportation, high-speed railways, population density, GDP, higher education, minority and language groups, energy infrastructure, watersheds, river systems, nature conservation areas, vegetation and land cover, Buddhist sites, and many more.

– Harvard Geospatial Library The Harvard Library has licenses for the China County-level census with GIS Maps (historically from 1953 to 1990, as well as complete long forms for 2000 and 2010). These are available as a series of layers from HGL, or can be copied in person from the DVD media available at the Map Collection. The Library also subscribes to the online China GeoExplorer system from the University of Michigan China Data Center. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:chinageoexplr

– G. W. Skinner the regional systems analysis datasets include the ChinaA (1990 Census) variables, Core Periphery Zones, and Central Places Study (ChinaT).

– OSM the crowd-sourced OpenStreetMap data is packaged in downloadable shapefiles by Geofabrik. The OSM data contains the most detailed free geographic features anywhere, including streets, landuse, buildings, railways, roads, natural features (such as waterbodies and parks).

– Beijing City Lab publishes excellent datasets on urban areas in China, including some unique analysis of land use derived from Open Street Map.

– USGS China Placenames aggregated by Province and stamped with corresponding 1990 County and Province names (in Chinese)

Historical China

– China Historical GIS the main collection of datasets showing the administrative system of China from 222 BCE to 1911 CE.

– China’s History in Maps an online webmap system for browsing historical China data layers.

– G. W. Skinner historical analysis data include: socio-economic macroregions, physiographic macroregions, ChinaW (19th Cities and towns).

Historical China Map Scans

– CHGIS Archive Scanned maps and atlases of historical interest.

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