Digital Maps of the Silk Road | Digital Silk Road

Organizing the database of ruins in the Silk Road and digital maps as infrastructure of the database.

Database of Silk Road Ruins

A database that integrates various information about ruins in the Silk Road.

Create the database of Silk Road Place names compiled from various materials, including latitude and longitude information and various properties.

Stein Gazetteer - Gazetteer of Silkroad integrating Aurel Stein's maps and list of placenames.
Stein Gazetteer (Kara-Khoja) - Gazetteer of Kara-Khoja integrating Aurel Stein's maps and list of placenames.
Kara-Khoja Gazetteer - Gazetteer of Gaochang integrating Albert Grünwedel's maps and expedition reports.
Hedin Gazetteer - Gazetteer of Silk Road integrating Sven Hedin's maps and list of placenames.
Huang Wenbi Gazetteer - Gazetteer of Silk Road integrating Huang Wenbi's maps and list of placenames.
German Expeditions Gazetteer - Gazetteer of Silk Road integrating places explored by the German Expeditions。
DSR Gazetteer - Gazetteer of modern placenames used in Digital Silk Road.
Western Region Gazetteer - Gazetteer of western placenames in 『西域文物考古全集』.

Search all Silk Road gazetteers. The total number of places is 24,139.

Mappinning - Interactive georeferencing by pinning old maps
Silk Road Maps - Collection of historical maps and satellite images for exploring the Silk Road.
Silk Road in Photographs - Collection of annotated photographs taken at various places in Silk Road.

2022-11-17: DATABASE OF SILK ROAD RUINS (English Version) was released. This is a partially translated version of シルクロード遺跡データベース (Japanese). We are planning to continue the multilingual translation of these databases.
2022-10-31: The system and data of Silk Road Ruin Database was updated. Mappinning was integrated into the ruin database, and Gazetteers of the Silk Road was extensively reviewed to have 24,139 placenames.
2022-01-28: Integrated Database of Silk Road Ruins for Sharing the Evidence of Ruin Re-Identification has received the Best Paper Award from IPSJ SIG Computers and the Humanities Symposium 2021.
2021-12-10: New Silk Road Ruin Database was released.
2021-09-06: DSR Placename Database was released.
2020-04-13: Mappinning was updated for multiple overlay of maps.
2019-12-02: Hedin Placename Database and Huang Wenbi Placename Database were released.
2014-12-26: In Stein Gazetteer, we added new place names, reaching 6258 place names in total. In addition, we added a KML file for Google Earth and others in map search.
2013-11-26: Kara-Khoja Placename Database was released.
2013-04-06: In Stein Gazetteer, we added accurate latitude and longitude on the map of Stein for most of the places, and released Map Search. The database has 5528 place names.
2013-02-26: Maps of Kara-Khoja were added to Mappinning.
2012-03-27: Mappinning was released.
2010-05-07: Stein Gazetteer was open to the public.