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The 18th century Cassini roads and cities dataset

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Title The 18th century Cassini roads and cities dataset
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/28674
 
Creator Perret, Julien
Gribaudi, Maurizio
Barthelemy, Marc
Abadie, Nathalie
Baciocchi, Stéphane
Bertelli, Carlo
Bonin, Olivier
Bordin, Patricia
Costes, Benoît
Cristofoli, Pascal
Dumenieu, Bertrand
Gravier, Julie
Hubert, Jean-Paul
Le Ny, Pierre-André
Mermet, Eric
Motte, Claude
Pardoen, Mylène
Raimond, Ana-Maria
Robert, Sandrine
Vouloir, Marie-Christine
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description The evolution of infrastructure networks such as roads and streets are of utmost importance to understand the evolution of urban systems. However, datasets describing these spatial objects are rare and sparse. The database presented here represents the road network at the french national level described in the historical map of Cassini in the 18th century. The digitalization of this historical map is based on a collaborative platform methodology that we describe in detail. These data can be used for a variety of interdisciplinary studies, covering multiple spatial resolutions and ranging from history, geography, urban economics to the science of network.
 
Subject Social Sciences
 
Date 2015-01