Nung-Yao Lin, Qun Che, Shih-Pei Chen, Sean Wang

This workshop will introduce CHMap, an open-access web GIS platform developed by the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, to researchers in Chinese and East Asian history and digital humanities. CHMap provides large-scale, geo-referenced land survey maps of China produced in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as base layers via Web Map Tile Service. It allows researchers to integrate image collections from other sources on top of those base layers for exploratory and comparative analyses.