CHINA MAPS BIBLIOGRAPHY DATABASE

Dataset Records

The China Maps Bibliographic Database is an information collection of public China maps. This dataset contains 415 map records published from 1765 to 1994.

Dataset Variables

There are 72 variables in the dataset. They are:

ID	Title (WG)	Title (code)	Title (pinyin)
Title (Chinese)	Title (Englsh)	Title (Other)	Author
Series	Imprint	Map/series	Imprint
Map/series	ISBN	Edition	Lineage
Notes	Bibliographic	Scale	Scale(num)
Projection	Grid	Grid units	Coordinates
Situation date	Language	Coverage (scope)	Coverage
Provincial level	Township level	County level	Other boundaries
Cities	Towns	Rural settlements	Other settlements
Railroad levels	Railroads	Roads	Road levels
Canals	Canals	Navigability	Navigability
Interval	Other transportation	Contour	Elevation points
Metric	Other relief	Rivers and Lakes	Watershed
Marshes/swamps	Ponds	Other hydrography	Vegetation
Crops	Woods	Grasslands	Deserts
Rice paddies	Orchards	Industrial Use	Other vegetation
Residential Use	Urban	Commercial Use	Other urban
Salt fields	Other land cover	Thematic contents	Other contents

All the records are in both English and Chinese Characters (GB code for Chinese Characters).

(Provided by Ms. Alana Boland)

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