Land Survey Maps of China, 1895-1944

CATEGORY

GIS and Spatial Research

INSTITUTION

Max Planck Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Academia Sinica

URL

https://chmap.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/lgtu-new/

DESCRIPTION

CHMap provides quick access to 4,088 land survey maps of China produced by either China's central and provincial governments or the land survey department of the Japanese Army during the late 19th and the early 20th centuries. They are the first maps that provide accurate and large-scale outlooks (1:50,000) to a wide geography of proper China. In CHMap, users can access these land survey maps digitized by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and hosted at Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, as well as those hosted at Academia Sinica.