Trove digitised maps – coordinates

This dataset contains was generated from the harvest of digitised maps metadata. Coordinate strings in the metadata (points and bounding boxes) were parsed and converted to decimal values.

The dataset is formatted as a CSV file and contains the following columns:

Column	Contents
`title`	title of the map
`url`	url to the map in the digitised file viewer
`coordinates`	map coordinates as a string, either a point or a bounding box (format is 'W--E/N--S', eg: 'E 130⁰50'--E 131⁰00'/S 12⁰30'--S 12⁰40')
`latitude`	point from coordinates or centre of box
`longitude`	point from coordinates or centre of box
`north`	north bounds of box
`south`	south bounds of box
`east`	east bounds of box
`west`	west bounds of box