Mid-19^th-century building structure locations in Galicia and Austrian Silesia under the Habsburg Monarchy

Abstract. We produced a reconstruction of mid-19^th-century building structure locations in former Galicia and Austrian Silesia (parts of the Habsburg Monarchy), located in present-day Czechia, Poland and Ukraine and covering more than 80 000 km². Our reconstruction was based on a homogeneous series of detailed Second Military Survey maps (1:28,800), which were the result of cadastral mapping (1:2,880) generalization. The dataset consists of two kinds of building structures based on the original map legend – residential and outbuildings (mainly farm-related buildings). The dataset's accuracy was assessed quantitatively and qualitatively using independent data sources and may serve as an important input in studying long-term socio-economic processes and human-environmental interactions or as a valuable reference for continental settlement reconstructions. The dataset is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.17632/md8jp9ny9z.1 (Kaim et al., 2020).