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Road Network, London, 1746

Stanford University. Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis · 1746 Full Details

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Title
Road Network, London, 1746
Description
This line shapefile contains the road network digitized from a map entitled "Composite Map: (Facsimile) Rocque's Map of London. 1746." Published in 1919, this composite map is considered one of the best facsimiles of the original Rocque Map ("A plan of the cities of London and Westminster, and borough of Southwark"), created by John Rocque and first published in 1746. A scanned version of this map available from The David Rumsey Map Collection was georeferenced by the Kindred London mapping project. Segments of roads, paths, bridges, tunnels, water crossings, and stairs, were digitized using route name and type, traffic volume, and access., The broad goal of the Kindred London project is to create four digitized road networks from four historic maps of London that will be used for an online, interactive web platform that will allow users to experience what it would have been like to travel the streets of London., This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.
Creator
Kindred London Mapping Project
Publisher
Stanford University. Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis
Subject
Roads, Trails, Bridges, Tunnels, Stairs, Transportation
Temporal Coverage
1746
Date Issued
2017
Rights
For questions about any use of this dataset, please contact Nicholas Jenkins (njenkins@stanford.edu).
Rights Holder
Copyright © 2018 Nicholas Jenkins and Erik Steiner
Access Rights
Public
Format
Shapefile
Language
English
Date Added
October 01, 2025

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  • Citation
    Kindred London Mapping Project (2017). Road Network, London, 1746. Stanford University. Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis. (dataset)
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