Historic Boston Shoreline
Item Information
- Title:
- Historic Boston Shoreline
- Description:
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This dataset represents the extents of Boston's historic shoreline. It covers the City of Boston and includes some parts of Cambridge, Somerville, Chelsea and Winthrop. This data is structured as temporal snapshots capturing the shoreline extent at different years. The years included in the dataset are 1635, 1795, 1852, 1880, 1916, 1934, 1950, 1995 and the present day. Different versions of this data have existed in the past, digitally 'hand-drawn' by cartographers creating maps for print publications. The datasets used to create these maps until now haven't been archived in GIS-compatible formats. This LMEC-maintained dataset is a stable, standardized GIS boundary file of historic shoreline extents. The LMEC has standardized and preserved data submitted by cartographers working on the Atlas of Boston History book project.
- Creator:
- Boston Public Library. Norman B. Leventhal Map and Education Center
- Date:
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2019
- Format:
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Data sets
- Genre:
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Polygon data
Geospatial data
- Location:
- Boston Public Library
- Collection (local):
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GIS Data Sets
- Subjects:
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Historic GIS
Coastal mapping
Coasts
1630–1995
- Places:
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Somerville
Cambridge
Charles River
Boston
- Permalink:
- https://ark-dc3dev.bpl.org/ark:/50959/cj82kw19m
- Terms of Use:
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No known copyright restrictions.
This work is in the public domain under a Creative Commons No Rights Reserved License (CC0).
