Zhejiang Sheng, China : Towns

Description:

Vector dataset showing populated places (with names in Russian) over an area of the Zhejiang Sheng region, China, 1979. Dataset was derived from 6 sheet maps from a series of Soviet Army topographic maps of China 1:200,000, prepared and printed by the Soviet Army General Headquarters, 1976-1991. Source maps were scanned and georeferenced to the Gauss-Kruger projection by Harvard Map Collection staff. Roads were traced and points were placed in ArcMap from the GeoTIFF using heads-up digitizing by East View Cartographic, Inc.

Creator:

East View Cartographic, Inc., Harvard University. Center for Geographic Analysis., and Soviet Union. Soviet Army. General Headquarters.

Publisher:

Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library

Provider:

Harvard

Resource Class:

Datasets

Resource Type:

Polygon data

Subject:

location, Human settlements, Cities and towns, Villages, and China, roads, Russian, cyrillic

Temporal Coverage:

1979

Date Issued:

2007-07

Spatial Coverage:

China and Zhejiang Sheng

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

Shapefile