{
  "id": "world-history-atlas",
  "title": "AP World History Atlas",
  "version": "2026-06-23-seed-atlas-v1",
  "status": "starter corpus / source-aware MVP foundation",
  "description": "A source-aware temporal atlas foundation for states, cities, wars, population, routes, religions, universities, and AP thematic map rooms from antiquity to the present.",
  "public_warning": "This seed atlas is a project foundation. Starter layers are intentionally labeled as source-registered, interpretive, or seed records. They are not a final world-historical reconstruction.",
  "benchmark_periods": "/data/world-history-atlas/benchmark_periods.json",
  "sources": "/data/world-history-atlas/world_history_sources.json",
  "layers": [
    {"id":"starter-boundaries","label":"Starter historical boundary context","path":"/data/world-history-atlas/starter_boundaries.geojson","kind":"interpretive_boundary_context"},
    {"id":"seed-cities","label":"Historical city and place seeds","path":"/data/world-history-atlas/seed_cities.geojson","kind":"place_seed"},
    {"id":"seed-battles","label":"War and battle seeds","path":"/data/world-history-atlas/seed_battles.geojson","kind":"event_seed"},
    {"id":"seed-universities","label":"Universities and learning centers","path":"/data/world-history-atlas/seed_universities.geojson","kind":"institution_seed"},
    {"id":"major-routes","label":"Major route corridors","path":"/data/world-history-atlas/major_routes.geojson","kind":"route_corridor"},
    {"id":"religion-overlays","label":"Religion and cultural-region starter overlays","path":"/data/world-history-atlas/religion_overlays.geojson","kind":"interpretive_cultural_region"}
  ],
  "ap_existing_handoffs": [
    {"id":"world-war-i-atlas","label":"First World War Operational Atlas","url":"/projects/world-war-i-atlas/","temporalCoverage":"1914/1918"},
    {"id":"world-war-ii-atlas","label":"Second World War Operational Atlas","url":"/projects/world-war-ii-atlas/","temporalCoverage":"1939/1945"},
    {"id":"genocide-atlas","label":"Genocide Atlas","url":"/projects/genocide-atlas/","temporalCoverage":"1890/1923"},
    {"id":"cultural-heritage-atlas","label":"Armenian Cultural Heritage Atlas","url":"/projects/cultural-heritage-atlas/","temporalCoverage":"ancient/present"},
    {"id":"world-transport-atlas","label":"World Transport Atlas","url":"/projects/world-transport-atlas/","temporalCoverage":"modern"},
    {"id":"conflict-systems-atlas","label":"Conflict Systems Atlas","url":"/projects/conflict-systems-atlas/","temporalCoverage":"modern"}
  ],
  "next_ingestion_targets": ["CShapes 2.0", "Pleiades", "World Historical Gazetteer", "HYDE", "Wikidata SPARQL seed layers", "Natural Earth", "OpenHistoricalMap license-aware extracts"]
}