Description
The Online Spiritual Atlas of China (OSAC), created by the Center on Religion and Chinese Society at Purdue, was constructed as a complement to the print volume, Atlas of Religion in China: Social and Geographical Contexts, by Fenggang Yang (Brill, 2018), as a way to visually demonstrate the extent and distribution of religious sites in China. OSAC is power by ArcGIS online, and some features were developed with ArcGIS JavaScript SDK. The site allows users to visualize the spatial distribution of individual religious sites in China, as well as see how provinces, prefectures, and counties compare with each other in terms of the number of religious sites. Currently, the data comes from China’s 2004 Economic Census, which listed 72,887 religious sites from all of China’s 31 provinces or provincial-level regions and municipalities, but there are plans to update this with data gleaned from other sources in the future.. It also allows for user-generated edits or additions to the religious site information. In addition, OSAC uses the ArcGIS Storymap platform to display visual essays for a select number of specific religious sites.
Start Date
11-2019
Document Type
Other
Keywords
China religious site, spatial distribution, esri
Session List
Lightning Talk
Included in
Spatial Distribution of Religious Sites in China: A web-based data-rich application using Esri
The Online Spiritual Atlas of China (OSAC), created by the Center on Religion and Chinese Society at Purdue, was constructed as a complement to the print volume, Atlas of Religion in China: Social and Geographical Contexts, by Fenggang Yang (Brill, 2018), as a way to visually demonstrate the extent and distribution of religious sites in China. OSAC is power by ArcGIS online, and some features were developed with ArcGIS JavaScript SDK. The site allows users to visualize the spatial distribution of individual religious sites in China, as well as see how provinces, prefectures, and counties compare with each other in terms of the number of religious sites. Currently, the data comes from China’s 2004 Economic Census, which listed 72,887 religious sites from all of China’s 31 provinces or provincial-level regions and municipalities, but there are plans to update this with data gleaned from other sources in the future.. It also allows for user-generated edits or additions to the religious site information. In addition, OSAC uses the ArcGIS Storymap platform to display visual essays for a select number of specific religious sites.