Tuscany Region — Soil Uses and Castastali Rendite as at 1835

The Dataset is the result of a research project ‘After Castore — A geo-referenced regional database, the use of agroforestry land and the 19th century Tocana cadastral incomes’, born from the collaboration between the Geography Laboratory of the Department of History of the University of Siena and the Territorial and Environmental Information System of the Tuscany Region that co-financed the project. The project started from the results obtained by the Castore Project (Regional Historical Catasto - http://www.regione.toscana.it/-/castore-catasti-storici-regionali ) by topologically correcting the vector dataset of the cutout polygons of the Tuscan General Cadastre produced by Castore and integrating them of the gaps present in the original data, in order to obtain a continuous surface referring to the administrative limits of the cadastral section of the early nineteenth century. The work continued by digitising the data of the Prospectus for Measurement and the Estimate relating to the extension of the cadastral sections, which, following their control and correction of errors (the data that occurred during the transcription of manuscripts were reported during the work), the data relating to the individual Communities were enclosed in a single database. The result is a dataset that shows the nineteenth-century distribution of the Tuscan territory in the following macro-classes: ‘vine-cultivated area’, ‘vine crop yield’, ‘area of cultivation of olive trees and vines’, ‘income of cultivation to olive trees and vines’, ‘area of bare work’, ‘income of bare work’, ‘forested area’, ‘return of the area to wood’, ‘chest forest area’, ‘income of the forested area of chestnut trees’, ‘paed hard surface area’, ‘strewn hard surface yield’, ‘natural and artificial grassland area’, ‘natural and artificial grassland surface yield’, ‘different product area’, ‘surface yield different products’, ‘produced areas’, ‘surface yields manufactured’. More information can be found in the scientific report (http://www502.regione.toscana.it/geoscopio/hotlinks/uso_suolo_storico/relazioni_tecnico_scientifiche/uso_suolo_agroforestale_ottocentesco_relazione_scientifica.pdf ) and the technical report ( http://www502.regione.toscana.it/geoscopio/hotlinks/uso_suolo_storico/relazioni_tecnico_scientifiche/uso_suolo_agroforestale_ottocentesco_relazione_tecnica.pdf ).