Japan Historical GIS Lex Berman - Harvard Yenching Inst

Components of the Project placename feature type coordinates valid date source note spatial objects digital gazetteerGIS layers

Digital Gazetteer placename admin unit, populated place, natural feature, religious site, archaeological site, trade route, place where an event occurred, etc feature type city, village, mountain, temple, ruin, trade route, etc coordinate latitude and longitude for each feature source note citation of data source, commentary on feature valid date date or range of time for which this record is valid

Using the Digital Gazetteer search by placename, type, date, source sort by placename, type, date, source export subsets of records to working tables

GIS Layers and Spatial Objects point layers line layers grid layers polygon layers

Browsing the GIS layers

source map for Edo circuits and provinces

working with scanned maps

identify objects on map image

data entry of all placenames from map image

georeferenced scanned map

digitize polygons based on map image

tabular data joined with the GIS layers

selection of labels for spatial objects

thematic mapping of spatial objects

zoomed out on thematic map

thematic mapping of statistical information (raw)

thematic mapping of statistical information (by area)

thematic mapping 1995 census

thematic mapping 1995 census (zoom)

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