During my recent internet explorations, I stumbled upon a fascinating website: Soviet Military Maps of China. I was taken aback by what I found. This collection consists of 381 declassified map sheets, originally part of the Soviet Union's military mapping of China. The creator has georeferenced these maps and built them into an online WebGIS. I tested it myself and confirmed it can also be loaded in QGIS and ArcGIS Pro.
Previously I recommended historical GIS resources include:
Recently discovered OldMapsOnline - a globally-oriented historical mapping solution.
Following our previous article 《「GIS Resource」Sharing WMTS Service for Chinese Historical Maps》, many users adopted the historical territory maps. However, those maps lacked contextual historical figures and events. Based on reader recommendations, we present a more comprehensive solution:
Recently, someone in the Malagis GIS group was looking for historical maps of Chinese dynasties. While a friend from Qingdao shared some high-resolution scanned maps, I remembered seeing an online historical map service maintained by an institute in Taiwan. After asking GPT, I found it again. If you're interested in historical geography, this is a valuable resource.
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