2026/04/22 by Alexis Litvine, Guillaume Proffit, Arthur Starzec · 1 voice
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Engineering · Social Sciences · #Geographic Information Systems Studies #Historical Economic and Social Studies #Urban Design and Spatial Analysis
paper · pdf · doi:10.17863/cam.129351
openalex publication_date 2026/04/22 · openalex created_date 2026/04/23 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/01
This dataset provides a nationwide geospatial inventory of buildings in nineteenth-century France, extracted from the historical État-Major maps produced by the French military cartographic services. The underlying maps were surveyed between 1825 and 1866 and subsequently updated through partial revisions until 1889. All mapped buildings have been vectorised and harmonised into a single, consistent dataset, allowing a large-scale analysis of settlement patterns, urbanisation, and spatial economic change during the nineteenth century.