Historic shapefiles

This subdataverse contains original shapefiles relating to the Arabic-speaking Middle East and North Africa produced by researchers at the University of Oxford's Middle East Centre.

These shapefiles recover geospatial information from publicly-available maps produced by both governmental and non-governmental cartographers. The focus is on capturing historic features that predate the availability of satellite imagery and open-source spatial data. These include economic, political, and demographic features at varying scales, e.g., historic national borders, internal administrative boundaries, building locations, etc.

For more information on shapefile attributes, the georeferencing process, and how to cite the data, see: https://osf.io/nfeh4/.

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kuwait.cpg Mar 20, 2024 - Kuwait transportation infrastructure 1991 Unknown This Dataset is harvested from our partners. Clicking the link will take you directly to the archival source of the data.
kuwait.dbf Mar 20, 2024 - Kuwait transportation infrastructure 1991 dBASE Table for ESRI Shapefile This Dataset is harvested from our partners. Clicking the link will take you directly to the archival source of the data.
kuwait.prj Mar 20, 2024 - Kuwait transportation infrastructure 1991 ESRI Shapefile This Dataset is harvested from our partners. Clicking the link will take you directly to the archival source of the data.
kuwait.qmd Mar 20, 2024 - Kuwait transportation infrastructure 1991 HTML This Dataset is harvested from our partners. Clicking the link will take you directly to the archival source of the data.
kuwait.shp Mar 20, 2024 - Kuwait transportation infrastructure 1991 Shape This Dataset is harvested from our partners. Clicking the link will take you directly to the archival source of the data.
kuwait.shx Mar 20, 2024 - Kuwait transportation infrastructure 1991 Shape This Dataset is harvested from our partners. Clicking the link will take you directly to the archival source of the data.
mena_historic_shapefiles.pdf Mar 20, 2024 - Kuwait transportation infrastructure 1991 Adobe PDF This Dataset is harvested from our partners. Clicking the link will take you directly to the archival source of the data.
road.cpg Mar 20, 2024 - Kuwait transportation infrastructure 1991 Unknown This Dataset is harvested from our partners. Clicking the link will take you directly to the archival source of the data.
road.dbf Mar 20, 2024 - Kuwait transportation infrastructure 1991 dBASE Table for ESRI Shapefile This Dataset is harvested from our partners. Clicking the link will take you directly to the archival source of the data.
road.prj Mar 20, 2024 - Kuwait transportation infrastructure 1991 ESRI Shapefile This Dataset is harvested from our partners. Clicking the link will take you directly to the archival source of the data.

kuwait.cpg

Mar 20, 2024 - Kuwait transportation infrastructure 1991

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