Historical Country Boundaries Here is a set of shape file boundaries I just found. Accuracy for old dates is debatable. Accuracy of the boundaries for newer dates is claimed to be withing about 40 miles. http://www.mflan.com/temp/allfiles.zip You don't need these if you get the single file above. http://www.mflan.com/temp/1000.zip http://www.mflan.com/temp/1000bc.zip http://www.mflan.com/temp/1279.zip http://www.mflan.com/temp/1492.zip http://www.mflan.com/temp/1530.zip http://www.mflan.com/temp/1650.zip http://www.mflan.com/temp/1715.zip http://www.mflan.com/temp/1783.zip http://www.mflan.com/temp/1815.zip http://www.mflan.com/temp/1880.zip http://www.mflan.com/temp/1914.zip http://www.mflan.com/temp/1920.zip http://www.mflan.com/temp/1938.zip http://www.mflan.com/temp/1945.zip http://www.mflan.com/temp/1994.zip http://www.mflan.com/temp/1bc.zip http://www.mflan.com/temp/2000bc.zip http://www.mflan.com/temp/200bc.zip http://www.mflan.com/temp/323bc.zip http://www.mflan.com/temp/400.zip http://www.mflan.com/temp/500bc.zip http://www.mflan.com/temp/600.zip http://www.mflan.com/temp/800.zip http://www.mflan.com/temp/a-readme.txt Mike On 4/2/2019 11:00 PM, MAPS-L automatic digest system wrote: > Subject: > Re: Historical French colonial boundaries in Africa > From: > "Weessies, Kathleen" <[log in to unmask]> > Date: > 4/2/2019, 11:09 AM > > > We’ve been talking about having a GIS student create some historical > world boundary shapefiles. They don’t seem to exist as shapefiles, > only as a web service. If we develop some, we could host the > shapefiles on our ArcOnline site, or we could host it on the Big Ten > Academic Alliance ArcOnline site (or both). > > French West Africa is an area of interest to us, something to > consider. If your student does end up making one before we get around > to it, please encourage her to share it! We will host it permanently > and of course plaster her name all over the metadata! > > One question we ran into right away is, whose version of boundaries do > you follow? For world post-1945 we’ll probably use United Nations > maps as reference. For French West Africa it makes sense to use IGN, > an easier decision. > > Kathleen Weessies > > Social Sciences Coordinator; Head, Map Library > > Michigan State University > > [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> > > 517-884-0849 >
