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Constructing the first municipal-level GIS for France and a multi-modal transport network

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Constructing the first municipal-level GIS for France and a multi-modal transport network

The COMMUNES project is building the first historical-GIS capturing all changes in the boundaries of French communes since the Revolution and creating a multi-modal dataset of transport networks from 1750 to the present.

It combines the strength and expertise of the Institut National d'Études Démographique (INED, team led by Isabelle Séguy), the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure (CAMPOP) based at the University of Cambridge (team led by Alexis Litvine), and the ThéMA lab at the Université de Bourgogne (team led by Thomas Thévenin). It also counts with the technical expertise of the Institut National de l'Information Géographique et Forestière (IGN) and the active support of some of the most prominent European scholars in our Advisory Board.

The project is funded as part of project COMMUNE HIS-DBD (COllaborative Micro Mapping of UNExploited HIStorical District-Boundary Data) by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR, France) and INED (France).

Progress

In all publications and online communications our datasets should be referred to as follows:

French Historical GIS, 1700-2020. Administrative units, Populations, Transports, Economy (forthcoming 2024), doi. 10.5281/zenodo.3727274

If you would like to use our data or request specific data for one of your projects please contact Alexis Litvine (adl38@cam.ac.uk) or fill in the form available here:

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