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Subject:        China place names
Date:   Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:14:21 -0500
From:   George E. Clark <[log in to unmask]>
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To:     Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>



The China Historical GIS may be helpful in this project, though it is
not the thing that you are asking for:

http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~chgis/

> A genealogist friend of mine would like to plot old place names on a
> shaded relief map of China.  He is looking for mapping software
> (preferably free or relatively inexpensive) that would allow him
> to do this and that would be relatively easy to use.

--
George E. Clark, Ph.D.
Environmental Research Librarian
Harvard University
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~clark5