<resource xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4" xsi:schemaLocation="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4 http://schema.datacite.org/meta/kernel-4.1/metadata.xsd"><identifier identifierType="Handle">10622/DRXWLN</identifier><creators><creator><creatorName nameType="Personal">Stapel, Rombert</creatorName><givenName>Rombert</givenName><familyName>Stapel</familyName><nameIdentifier nameIdentifierScheme="ORCID">0000-0001-6394-260X</nameIdentifier><affiliation>International Institute of Social History</affiliation></creator></creators><titles><title>Historical GIS for geographic regions in Morse's The American Gazetteer (1797)</title></titles><publisher>IISH Data Collection</publisher><publicationYear>2020</publicationYear><subjects><subject>Arts and Humanities</subject><subject>Historical GIS</subject><subject>North America</subject><subject>South America</subject><subject>Latin America</subject><subject>West Indies</subject></subjects><contributors><contributor contributorType="ContactPerson"><contributorName nameType="Organizational">Stapel, Rombert</contributorName><affiliation>International Institute of Social History</affiliation></contributor></contributors><dates><date dateType="Submitted">2020-01-31</date><date dateType="Updated">2020-07-04</date></dates><resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="Dataset"/><sizes><size>725430</size><size>46890</size><size>226938</size></sizes><formats><format>application/octet-stream</format><format>application/octet-stream</format><format>application/octet-stream</format></formats><version>3.0</version><rightsList><rights rightsURI="info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess"/><rights rightsURI="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">CC0 Waiver</rights></rightsList><descriptions><description descriptionType="Abstract">Historical GIS polygons (convex hulls) for the areas and administrative units mentioned in &lt;em>The American Gazetteer&lt;/em> by Jedidiah Morse (Boston 1797). The dataset was specifically created for use with the text, but draws on resources of the &lt;a href="https://nhgis.org" target="_blank">NHGIS&lt;/a> and &lt;a href="https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/hgis-indias" target="_blank">HGIS de las Indias&lt;/a>.</description></descriptions><geoLocations><geoLocation><geoLocationBox><northBoundLatitude>90</northBoundLatitude><eastBoundLongitude>20</eastBoundLongitude><southBoundLatitude>-90</southBoundLatitude><westBoundLongitude>-135</westBoundLongitude></geoLocationBox></geoLocation></geoLocations></resource>