Shapefiles of the Great Wall of China and the Silk Road

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I am looking for shapefiles of two Chinese landmarks.

Great Wall of China. Format: spatial lines. The sources mentioned in another post are apparently not available anymore.
Silk Road. Format: spatial lines, points or polygons.

Comments on maps that can be geocoded are also welcome.

Have you searched on this web-site worldmap.harvard.edu/data — Taras, Sep 8, 2020 at 11:56
Yes. And there is only this inadequate shapefile: worldmap.harvard.edu/maps/13529/info. — user, Sep 8, 2020 at 12:12
Actually, I did find data on the Silk Road. But I still need a shapefile on the Great Wall of China. — user, Sep 8, 2020 at 12:26
Chr, could you please help me to find Silk Road GISdata as well. Thank you advance!) — Evgenii Shibkov, Oct 28, 2020 at 9:41

Maksym Kozlenko · Accepted Answer · 2020-10-29 22:34:43Z

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You can use Overpass API to get data in GeoJSON format. You can query using WikidataID parameter (Q12501)

answered Oct 29, 2020 at 5:39

Maksym Kozlenko

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For that to work the Great Wall of China needs to be a feature in OpenStreetMap, right? However, OpenStreetMap only covers tiny isolated pieces.
– user
Oct 29, 2020 at 11:52
But all these features have same Wikidata ID. Check map using OSM data on this page geoattractions.com/details/55971
– Maksym Kozlenko
Oct 29, 2020 at 22:28

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Chemo · Accepted Answer · 2023-06-01 21:06:56Z

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Since I stumbled upon this thread on my search for a historic Silk Road GPX track, I will leave my finding here for others who might find it useful.

I found this website, that displays this GPX-Track, as can be found in the network communication dev tools of your browser.

answered Jun 1 at 21:06

Chemo

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