Papadias Evangelos, Kalogeropoulos Kleomenis, Polykretis Christos, Psarogiannis Athanasios, Chalkias Georgios, Chalkias Christos
Geography Department, School of Environment, Geography and Applied Economics, Harokopio University of Athens, Kallithea, Athens, Attica, Greece.
Department of Surveying and Geoinformatics Engineering, University of West Attica, Aigaleo, Attica, Greece.
Data Brief. 2024 Oct 29;57:111084. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2024.111084. eCollection 2024 Dec.
The geospatial dataset presented in this manuscript, represents elements of the historical, natural, political and cultural environment of Cyprus, as it was recorded by British officials during the early years (1878-1883) of their administration on the island. The data were derived from Horatio Herbert Kitchener's map of Cyprus, published in 1885 in 15 sheets, at a scale of 1:63 360 (1 inch to 1 mile), which is considered a milestone in the cartography of the island. The geospatial layers were extracted my manual on-screen digitization of the geographic features depicted on the georeferenced seamless mosaic created by the individual sheets (Chalkias et al., 2023). The database consists of the following vector layers: (a) road network, (b) hydrographic network, (c) administration boundaries as well as land cover/use in raster format and covers the entire area of the island (9 247 km). In addition, the locations and the population attributes recorded in the census of 1881, have been added to the database as well. Historical maps and censuses are a valuable and the most common source of geospatial data used in historical research, when space and the spatial distribution of phenomena, are considered a critical parameter. However, among other, the availability of historical geospatial data, is recognized as a limitation to the further development of Historical GIS. Therefore, this dataset aims to contribute to this need.
本手稿中呈现的地理空间数据集，代表了塞浦路斯历史、自然、政治和文化环境的要素，这些要素是英国官员在其对该岛进行管理的早期（1878 - 1883年）记录下来的。数据源自霍雷肖·赫伯特·基奇纳的塞浦路斯地图，该地图于1885年以15张图幅出版，比例尺为1:63360（1英寸代表1英里），被视为该岛制图学的一个里程碑。地理空间图层是通过对由各张图幅创建的地理参考无缝镶嵌图上描绘的地理特征进行手动屏幕数字化提取的（查尔基亚斯等人，2023年）。该数据库由以下矢量图层组成：(a) 道路网络，(b) 水系网络，(c) 行政边界以及栅格格式的土地覆盖/利用情况，覆盖了全岛（9247平方公里）的区域。此外，1881年人口普查记录的地点和人口属性也已添加到数据库中。当空间和现象的空间分布被视为关键参数时，历史地图和人口普查是历史研究中使用的地理空间数据的宝贵且最常见的来源。然而，除其他因素外，历史地理空间数据的可用性被认为是历史地理信息系统进一步发展的一个限制因素。因此，本数据集旨在满足这一需求。
