I've been looking for a while for Historical GIS datasets. In a lot of places (also in answers here at Stack Exchange), people are referring to a great dataset at ThinkQuest, which contains shapefiles for many years inbetween 2000 BC and 1994 for the whole world (I am interested in Europe, in particular).
But since ThinkQuest has been discontinued, the archive is only accessible through the ThinkQuest Library. Unfortunately, this archive does not contain the actual downloads of the datasets…
Does anybody know where I can find these datasets, or is there maybe someone who downloaded these in the past willing to share them here?
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I have just been trying to find these historical GIS datasets from ThinkQuest Library I was looking for, but this time I was successful!
I managed to find a backup of the file at GitHub, where the complete dataset can be downloaded.