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Overview The THL Places Portal supports scholarly projects and
participatory projects by local communities on the culture,
ecology, and geography of the Tibetan plateau and southern
Himalayas. All resources will be published in a scholarly format
in the Tibetan and Himalayan Historical & Cultural Geography
Portal, and in more accessible formats in the Tibetan Geotourism
Portal. The former serves scholars, teachers, students, and
others with a scholarly bent, while the latter serves visitors
to the region while promoting tourism that benefits local
communities and features immersive engagement. Resources include
maps, images, audio-video, essays, and place studies. The
technical core is GIS (Geographical Information Systems), which
documents places by latitude and longitude, and thus allows for
analysis of places in relationship to other associated data, the
visualization of relationships with maps, and the indexing of
large pools of resources by place