1921 shapefiles depict telegraph and telephone lines, roads, and light rail networks across Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. The data provides a snapshot of key transport and communications infrastructure from that historical period. Author Nejjar, Sawsene contributed this dataset to the Historic shapefiles organization.
Use Cases
- Map historical transportation corridors based on main and caravan road data.
- Analyze colonial communications infrastructure based on telegraph and telephone line networks.
- Study the extent and proposed development of rail transport based on light and proposed rail data.
- Reconstruct historical travel and trade routes based on surveyed and unsurveyed road classifications.
Strengths
- Data provides a specific temporal snapshot from 1921.
- Covers multiple infrastructure types: telegraph/telephone lines, roads, and rail networks.
- Includes proposed infrastructure, offering insight into historical planning.
Limitations
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- Historic shapefiles organization via Dataverse.
- Time Range
- 1921
- Freshness
- Last updated 2025-10-14 16:50:28; freshness should be verified
- Geography
- Anglo-Egyptian Sudan