Project and Resource Listings

This catalog was originally seeded from John Levin’s Anterotesis DH GIS Projects list and contributions to the DiRT Directory that were identified as geospatial. We are seeking contributions to this list with focus on projects, tools, and resources in the DH community that include spatial, spatial-temporal and “placial” perspectives. Please suggest a new resource using the following form.

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Description A study of 486 feet of present-day Greene Street between Houston and Prince Streets in Manhattan, New York. A remarkable and innovative project, producing a kind of thick description of a small area.
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Description Scottish Post Office directories and contemporary maps. The execution of this project is excellent.
Location Scotland
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Title AfricaMap
Description Part of the Harvard World Map project.
Location Africa
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Description Mapping the Arabic world in the classical epoque (circa 9th and 10th centuries A.D.).
Resource Type Project
Description Flash-based map of Africa, available on the web as downloadable executables for Mac and Windows.
Location Africa
Resource Type Project
Description A pilot for the project ‘Mapping State and Society in Eighteenth-Century Ireland’, this site maps all of the army barracks active between 1690 and 1815.
Resource Type Project
Description OFull site now launched: Mapping artists and their neighbourhoods in 17th and 18th century Paris.
Resource Type Project
Description Maps and data relating to trans-atlantic shipping, including the slave trade.
Location Africa
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Description Mapping the historic local administrations of Portugal, in Portuguese and English.
Location Portugal
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Description Atlas of Literary Landscapes of Mainland Portugal is a project that aims to study literary representations of mainland Portugal and to explore their connections with social and environmental realities both in the past and in the present.
Location Portugal
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Description Given the Digital Humanities’ prediliction for talking about itself, it’s suprising that there aren’t more mappings of it. This Atlas, from the University of Granada, covers the social sciences as well as DH, and has a strong Iberio-American focus. In Spanish and English. See also this english language presentation of the atlas.
Location Global
Resource Type Project
Description Printing in Europe, circa 1450 to 1500.
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Description The Authorial London project is compiling and mapping references to London places found in the works and biographies of writers who have lived there. You can explore and analyze these curated passages from literary, geographical, and biographical perspectives, on dimensions of genre, form, period, social standing, and neighborhood. The site's underlying software platform, "Authorial {X}," will be made available soon, permitting creation of similar sites for other locales.
Location London
Resource Type Project
Description A Cultural Atlas that includes maps, a timeline, and images of Batanes, the northern most province of the Philippines.
Location Philippines
Resource Type Project
Description A Historical GIS Study of Urban Cultures, 1912-1937. In Chinese and English.
Location Beijing
Resource Type Project
Description Photos of the old walled city of Beijing.
Resource Type Project
Description Geo-historical statistics, 1800-1963/2003.
Location Belgium
Resource Type Project
Title Beyond Steel
Description Industry and Society in 19th and 20th century LeHigh County, Pennsylvania.
Location Pennsylvania
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Title Bombsight
Description Bomb Sight is mapping the WW2 bomb census in London using web and mobile mapping technology.
Location London
Resource Type Project
Description The geography of nineteenth and mid-twentieth century newspapers from the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Description Very interesting medical history map and timeline from Duke University’s Haiti Project.
Location Central America & Caribbean
Resource Type Project
Description Mapping memories of slavery in the francophone world. In French.
Resource Type Project
Title CHALICE
Description Under development. Creating a historic placename gazetteer for the U.K.
Location United Kingdom
Resource Type Project
Description Archive of the Victorian social investigator, including his famed poverty maps of London.
Location London
Resource Type Project
Description Covering Chinese history between 221 BCE and 1911 CE.
Location China
Resource Type Project
Description Ambitious project that appears dormant, without having produced any maps.
Location China
Resource Type Project
Title City Witness
Description “This project will create an on-line interactive map of Swansea c. 1300, showing its principal topographical and landscape features, alongside an electronic edition of the fourteenth-century witness testimonies describing the hanging in Swansea of the Welshman, William Cragh, by the lord of Gower. This will provide multiple vantage points on the town and the significations attached to locations within the town by different social and ethnic groups (including Anglo-Norman and Welsh, lay and religious, male and female, lord, burgher, outlaw). Website now live.
Location Swansea
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Description The only mobile phone app produced by academics that I’ve found, now with an improved supporting website.
Location Cleveland
Resource Type Project
Title Clio
Description Public history in the United States, delivered by website and mobile app.
Resource Type Project
Description Mapping Mob Violence, Riots and Pogroms against African American Communities, 1824 to 1974. I worked on this project, finding incidents of racist violence in various digital newspaper archives.
Resource Type Project
Description Digitizations of maps, many with added placename information, as part of a large archive on Vancouver Island and British Columbia.
Location Canada
Resource Type Project
Description Important and well-made project mapping colonial violence against indigenous Australians.
Resource Type Project
Description Investigating the literature of the city of Santiago de Compostela. In español.
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Description “An interactive digital map that explores Australian places and spaces as they are represented in and through films, novels, and plays..
Location Australia
Resource Type Project
Description Bilingual (English / Danish) project mapping Danish folklore and Kristensen’s investigations of it.
Location Denmark
Resource Type Project
Description Map of Danish Manors, in Danish.
Location Denmark
Resource Type Project
Title Decima
Description “The Digitally Encoded Census Information and Mapping Archive”, Decima studies Florence under the rule of Duke Cosimo I (1519-1574).
Location Florence
Resource Type Project
Description Important and ambitious attempt to annotate Sydney.
Location Sydney
Resource Type Project
Description How can language technologies and geospatial analysis facilitate answering important questions about the early colonisation of America? How did the Spanish colonial authorities portray and use information about the newly conquered territories and people? Can we identify, map, and analyse the geographies associated with the colonial period of Mexico, and what was said about them in historical sources, through expedite computational means? Using part of the corpus known as Relaciones Geográficas de la Nueva España – one of the most important colonial historical sources of America – concerned with the territory of Mexico, this project is creating and developing novel computational approaches for the semi-automated exploration of thousands of pages contained in these 16th century documents. Tackling important historical and methodological questions, and highly demanding challenges in the study of these written sources, we are extracting, analysing, and visualising information that can improve our understanding of this period, and expedite the process by which we study these documents. Our highly interdisciplinary team is combining techniques from different disciplines, including Corpus Linguistics, Text Mining, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Geographic Information Systems, to address questions related to the recording of information about indigenous cultures, the Spanish exploration of indigenous social and religious concepts, the appropriation and ideas about place and space in the indigenous world, and their attitudes towards politics and economy.
Location Mexico
Resource Type Project
Description Digital Atlas of European Historiography since 1800 provides a free access, web-based historical-geographic information system on the European history of Historiography. For that purpose, the institutional framework conditions for the professionalization and institutionalization of Historiography throughout the 19th and 20th centuries are being documented for all European countries.
Location Europe
Resource Type Project
Description Accompanying, and expanding upon, Robert Cribb’s Historical Atlas of Indonesia (NIAS Press, 2000; ), this site requires a serial number from the book for full access.
Location Indonesia
Resource Type Project
Description Comprehensive coverage of early Eurasian civilizations.
Location Europe
Resource Type Project
Description Bilingual (English / German) site, under construction but with many interesting static maps.
Location Europe
Resource Type Project
Description Beautiful as well as informative mapping of Ancient Rome.
Location Europe
Resource Type Project
Description Very impressive project on the (re)organizations of China during the Song epoch.
Resource Type Project
Description Very fine website focusing on Afro-Americans in inter-war Harlem, New York. Also blogging at http://digitalharlemblog.wordpress.com/ and see Robertson’s article Putting Harlem on the map.
Location New York
Resource Type Project
Description Exploring the History, Society, and Culture of Harrisburg, PA, USA.
Resource Type Project
Description Interesting site mapping – in 2 and 3 dimensions – the Temple complex at Karnak, Egypt.
Location Egypt
Resource Type Project
Description Back from the dead.
Location Ireland
Resource Type Project
Description Visualizing Joyce’s Dublin text in 3D.
Location Dublin
Resource Type Project
Description From UCL Qatar, a map-based history of the city of Doha.
Resource Type Project
Description Taken in the years 1656-1658, the Down Survey of Ireland is the first ever detailed land survey on a national scale anywhere in the world. The survey sought to measure all the land to be forfeited by the Catholic Irish in order to facilitate its redistribution to Merchant Adventurers and English soldiers. Copies of these maps have survived in dozens of libraries and archives throughout Ireland and Britain, as well as in the National Library of France. This Project has brought together for the first time in over 300 years all the surviving maps, digitised them and made them available as a public online resource.
Location Ireland
Resource Type Project
Description The landscape of the Blue Ridge Parkway, USA, a 469 mile ‘elongated park..
Resource Type Project
Description Very interesting collection of projects centered on Edmonton, Canada.
Location Canada
Resource Type Project
Description Mapping the sites of the ‘holocaust by bullets’ in Eastern Europe and Russia, that have been investigated by Yahad-in Nunum http://www.yahadinunum.org/.
Resource Type Project
Description reVilna is a digital mapping project dedicated to understanding how the residents of the Ghetto lived, how the ghetto functioned — even, given the circumstances, flourished — how it emerged, and how, ultimately, it was liquidated. Using geographical science and technology, reVilna seeks to reimagine the Vilna Ghetto.
Location Vilnius
Resource Type Project
Description Architecture and history of the town of Falmouth, Jamaica.
Location Jamaica
Resource Type Project
Description Mapping Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Quite the model example in terms of methodological explanation, supporting documentation and data curation.
Resource Type Project
Description Excellent site mapping “the trade of the Société Typographique de Neuchâtel (STN), a celebrated Swiss publishing house that operated between 1769 and 1794.” New URL:n
Location Europe
Resource Type Project
Description A database of some 750 items, plotted on the 1584 Buonsignori Map of Florence.
Location Florence
Resource Type Project
Description Thousands of paintings plotted. See comments for more details.
Resource Type Project
Title GeoBib
Description Geo-referencing ‘early’ (pre-1949) holocaust and concentration camp literature. In German, English and Polish.
Location Europe
Resource Type Project
Title Geodia
Description Visualizing the temporal, geographic, and material aspects of ancient Mediterranean civilizations.
Location Maritime: Mediterranean
Resource Type Project
Description This visualization maps the spread of the postal network on its western periphery by charting the opening and closing of more than 14,000 post offices west of the hundredth meridian. It allows the user to visualize the shape of the network for any period of time and how those patterns changed over the course of the century.
Location United States
Resource Type Project
Description The German presence in New York City. Available in three different flavours: for mobile phones, as web page and augmented reality application.
Location New York
Resource Type Project
Description Mapping the Jewish history of Hamburg. In German; a useful resume in English can be found at http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/mapping-jewish-history-in-hamburg.html
Location Hamburg
Resource Type Project
Description Plotting the global reach of the U.S. from Independence to Civil War, via diplomatic, military, commercial, religious, and other, missions.
Resource Type Project
Description Mapping movie-going in North Carolina.
Location North Carolina
Resource Type Project
Description Mining Google Books for Geographic data relating to Antiquity.
Location Europe, Maritime: Mediterranean
Resource Type Project
Description Very interesting mapping of early modern London’s literature and publishing using contemporary maps.
Location London
Resource Type Project
Title Gulag Map
Description Mapping the Soviet Gulag, and showing the number of prisoners by year. In Russian, but a brief intro can be found at http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2018/05/mapping-history-of-gulag.html.
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Title Gulag Online
Description Remarkable multi-disciplinary approach to the Gulag, combining archaeology, biography, history and geography into a map-based site.
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Title Hestia
Description Mapping the ancient Mediterranean via Herodotus.
Location Europe, Maritime: Mediterranean
Resource Type Project
Description “Un sistema de información histórico-geográfica para Hispanoamérica, 1701-1808).” Very impressive historical geography of eighteenth century Latin America. In Spanish.
Resource Type Project
Title HGIS Germany
Description Various maps and data relating to German.
Location Germany
Resource Type Project
Description Smartphone app guiding users around early Modern Florence, with some of the material downloadable from the website.
Resource Type Project
Description A set of interrelated projects on the American Civil War, of which 5 are maps.
Location United States
Resource Type Project
Title HISGIS
Description Dutch National GIS under development (and in Dutch).
Location Netherlands
Resource Type Project
Location Australia
Resource Type Project
Description In English and Czech, maps and terrain of the Czech Republic.
Location Czech Republic
Resource Type Project
Description Under development; a blurb can be found a.
Location Europe
Resource Type Project
Title Hypercities
Description “A digital research and educational platform for exploring, learning about, and interacting with the layered histories of city and global spaces..
Location Global
Resource Type Project
Title Ieldran
Description Mapping early Anglo-Saxon cemetaries in England.
Location England
Resource Type Project
Title Imagine Rio
Description “Illustrates the social and urban evolution of Rio de Janeiro over the entire history of the city, as it existed and as it was often imagined..
Resource Type Project
Description Based on Giambattista Nolli’s important map and Giuseppe Vasi’s comprehensive documentation to portray Rome in the eighteenth century and as part of the Grand Tour.
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Description An ambitious project to map the nineteenth century Tsarist Empire. Also notable for curating and releasing.
Resource Type Project
Description Interesting crowd-sourcing project to locate Irish speakers in New York, circa 1910.
Location New York
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Description Mapping Istanbul with a variety of data including historic maps, aerial photography, transport plans, and social data covering the spaces of everyday life and squatter zones.
Resource Type Project
Description In Japanese, so I’m relying on Google Translate. Historic maps from the early Meiji period, mid to late nineteenth century, geo-corrected.
Location Japan
Resource Type Project
Title JoyceWays
Description From Boston College (USA), an iPhone app mapping James Joyce’s work onto Dublin.
Location Dublin
Resource Type Project
Description Mapping Brugge / Bruges house by house. In Dutch, but for an Enlgish language intro see the talk given by Vannieuwenhuyze at the IHR Digital History seminar.
Resource Type Project
Description Marking literary landmarks across Kansas, Texas, USA.
Location Kansas City, United States
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Description From Bristol Council, a project to map that city’s history, using current and historical maps, and allowing the public to add items.
Location Bristol, England
Resource Type Project
Description Collating and analysing the slave owners paid compensation on the abolition of slavery in 1833. Now with added mappings of Britain, Jamaica, Barbados and Grenada.
Resource Type Project
Description Studying English dialects in the USA.
Location United States
Resource Type Project
Description Investigating the Gough Map of circa 1360.
Location United Kingdom
Resource Type Project
Description Revitalised! Very interesting investigations into European literature.
Location Europe
Resource Type Project
Description Just launched, drawing on data from Old Bailey Online, http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/, and London Lives, http://www.londonlives.org/. Blog: http://locatinglondonspast.wordpress.com/
Resource Type Project
Description Mapping the art market in nineteenth century London. See also Fletcher and Helmreich’s article based upon the project, Local/Global: Mapping Nineteenth-Century London’s Art Market
Location London
Resource Type Project
Description Lviv, in the Ukraine, mapped in various historical dimensions.
Location Ukraine
Resource Type Project
Description Based on Agas’ map from circa 1560. Much updated, with a large gazetteer of early modern London places names: http://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/gazetteer.htm
Location London
Resource Type Project
Description Mapping the Historical Memory of the Second Republic, the Civil War, and Francoism, in the city of Granada. En español.
Resource Type Project
Description The geographic chronology of Willa Cather.
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Description Mapping Balzac’s ‘Comedie Humaine’: not only the geography of his series, but the relationships between characters and the events. Old site: New site: http://blogs.memphis.edu/mappingbalzac/
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Description Various experiments in mapping books.
Location North America
Resource Type Project
Description A collection of projects produced by the Mapping Cultural Space fellowship seminar at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.
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Description Mapping all the geographic references in Dante’s Divine Comedy.
Resource Type Project
Description Mapping the networks of the late nineteenth century Parisian decadents. /
Location France
Resource Type Project
Description Fascinating investigation into urban decline in St Louis.
Location St. Louis, United States
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Description Aims “to provide a more complete picture of slavery in the Detroit area for the general public, students, and scholars..
Location Detroit, United States
Resource Type Project
Description Recreating Du Bois’ survey of Philadelphia’s Seventh War.
Location Philadelphia
Resource Type Project
Description Mapping James Joyce’s stories.
Resource Type Project
Description Mapping elections in the early American republic, 1787 to 1825. No maps as yet, but plentiful free and open data.
Resource Type Project
Description 12th and 13th century French architecture considered in 3 ways: time, space and narrative.
Location France
Resource Type Project
Description Time-based maps covering 4 continents, in English and German.
Location Global
Resource Type Project
Description Prototype for an all-UK project, this site allows visitors to contribute their spaces and places of LGBTQ life.
Resource Type Project
Description Completed project exploring space, place and identity in Medieval Chester.
Location Chester
Resource Type Project
Description Small project on Modernist Paris, based on John Glassco’s memoirs, by Dr Anouk Lang
Location Paris
Resource Type Project
Description Interesting idea: to map classical mythology in Post-Antique art. Initially covering New York.
Location New York
Resource Type Project
Description Mapping Force, Freedom and the Army in Reconstruction United States.
Resource Type Project
Description Mapping Australia’s first world war recruits.
Location Australia
Resource Type Project
Description Exploring the provenance records of paintings across time. Just one map so far.
Resource Type Project
Description Mid-Victorian entertainments in the Midlands.
Location England
Resource Type Project
Description A project to map the Petersburg Text, starting with Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment.
Location Russia
Resource Type Project
Description Mapping population change during the Great Famine in Ireland.
Location Ireland
Resource Type Project
Description Mapping the Radical history of North East England.
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Description Now live! Graduate project from Kings College London.
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Description Excellent site mapping slavery’s heritage in the Netherlands and Dutch New York, with maps of Indonesia ‘under construction.’ In Dutch and English.
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Description A project “experimenting with new methods for finding and analyzing meaningful patterns embedded in massive collections of digital newspapers..
Location Texas
Resource Type Project
Description Nascent project mapping Liverpool on celluloid.
Location Liverpool
Resource Type Project
Description This project focuses on the European periphery in seventeenth and eighteenth century enlightenment networks.
Resource Type Project
Description An important project, but so far only using static maps.
Location Russia
Resource Type Project
Description Very interesting project, now with added maps. The interface is significant, aiming to take spatial and temporal uncertainties into account.
Location Europe
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Description From Virginia Commonwealth University, a project to map the ‘second’ Klan, from 1915 to 1940.
Resource Type Project
Description Examining literary accounts of the Lake District in Britain, with some excellent theoretical articles.
Location Lake District
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Description “An experiment with indexing, using, and ultimately understanding oral history in new ways”, based upon accounts of feminist activism in the late twentieth century.
Resource Type Project
Description Completed in 2005, a study of new Towns of the late 1200s.
Location United Kingdom
Resource Type Project
Description Suite of projects – mostly blurbs rather than the goods – centred on enlightenment correspondence. (Formerly had a flash map of correspondence, but that seems to have disappeared..
Location Europe
Resource Type Project
Description Technically and historically very interesting mapping of slavery in the US, 1790-1860. Project: Blog post: http://lincolnmullen.com/blog/the-spread-of-american-slavery/
Location United States
Resource Type Project
Title Media NOLA
Description Histories of culture and cultural production in New Orleans.
Location New Orleans
Resource Type Project
Description Ambitious project to develop both an atlas of Edinburgh, 1000 – 2000 AD, and create open source tools for creating historic maps.
Resource Type Project
Description Very interesting project, mapping China Miéville’s sci-fi novel The City and the City; and exploring the possibilities for a “palimpsest or crosshatch” type of mapping.
Resource Type Project
Description Downloadable maps and data (requiring ArcExplorer), focussed on Montreal. In French and English.
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Description Micro-mapping project of area now occupied by Columbia University’s main campus in New York.
Resource Type Project
Description Mapping classical Greek mythology.
Location Greece
Resource Type Project
Description “Assured Protection for the Negro Traveler.” Mapping the 1956 edition of the travel guide for Afro-Americans.
Location United States
Resource Type Project
Description Depicting German Cities in Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia.
Resource Type Project
Description Flickr, mobile phones and Google maps mash-up investigating NYC street art.
Resource Type Project
Title Nolli Map
Description Interactive version of Giambattista Nolli’s 1748 map of Rome.
Location Rome
Resource Type Project
Description A search portal for historical maps hosted elsewhere.
Location Global
Resource Type Project
Title On The Line
Description Under construction, but fascinating already, a project on how schooling, housing, and civil rights shaped Hartford, Connecticut (USA) and its suburbs.
Location Hartford
Resource Type Project
Title Orbis
Description The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman Worl.
Location Rome
Resource Type Project
Description Mapping “the sprawling world of perhaps the greatest literary work of the Italian Renaissance, Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso..
Resource Type Project
Title Othello Map
Description Prototype mapping of literary publishing, using German editions of Othello. Longer description: http://blog.okfn.org/2013/02/08/version-variation-visualisation/
Location Germany
Resource Type Project
Description Mapping the detention of Japanese and Japanese-Americans in 1942.
Resource Type Project
Title OutGoing
Description Mapping New York City’s lgbt nightlife.
Resource Type Project
Description Open maps of Palestine, from 1880 to 1951, with contemporary mapping via Open Street Map, and the post-1945 status of many Palestinian localities.
Resource Type Project
Title Palimpsest
Description Just starting out, Palimpsest will visualize Edinburgh’s literary heritage.
Location Edinburgh
Resource Type Project
Title Pelagios
Description PELAGIOS stands for ‘Pelagios: Enable Linked Ancient Geodata In Open Systems’ – hooray for recursive acronyms.
Location Global
Resource Type Project
Title PhilaPlace
Description Great site from the Historical Society of Pennsylvania on the city of Philadelphia.
Location Philadelphia
Resource Type Project
Title Phone Booth
Description Project underway, repackaging the Charles Booth poverty maps into mobile phone formats.
Location London
Resource Type Project
Title Photogrammar
Description “Organizing, searching, and visualizing the 170,000 photographs from 1935 to 1945 created by the United States Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information (FSA-OWI)..
Location United States
Resource Type Project
Description Crowdsourcing literary locations.
Location Global
Resource Type Project
Description Mapping racial segregation in three cities in the 1860s and 1870s: Washington, Nashville and Omaha.
Resource Type Project
Title Pleiades
Description Repository of historical geographic information about the Greek and Roman World.
Location Greece
Resource Type Project
Description Text-mining the movement’s newspapers, this project maps notices of Chartist meetings from the Northern Star newspaper.
Resource Type Project
Description Major project mapping the demography (and more) of England and Wales, 1851 to 1911.
Resource Type Project
Description Constructing a geography of indigenous legal culture through digital maps and visualizations.
Resource Type Project
Description To accompany a book of the same name, a mapping of the American Small Pox epidemic of 1775-1782.
Location United States
Resource Type Project
Description Mapping England’s LGBT past via crowd-sourcing.
Resource Type Project
Description Part of a larger digital history of drinking culture in New Orleans.
Resource Type Project
Description The history of Queensland, Australia.
Resource Type Project
Description Mapping the places and patrons of early English theatre.
Location England
Resource Type Project
Description Mapping the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation’s surveys of 1930s Richmond, VA., including their assessment of “‘infiltration of a lower grade population’ (by which they meant African Americans, Jews, and immigrants)..
Location Virginia
Resource Type Project
Description From the Weiner Library, a map of the family papers of Jews fleeing the Nazi regime.
Resource Type Project
Description Interactive maps of early medieval Europe, 614-840.
Location Europe
Resource Type Project
Description Under development, but looking very promising. A manipulation of a giant axonometric scenic map of the French city of Lyon created during the height of the French Renaissance.
Resource Type Project
Description A research project by Matthew Sangster exploring life and culture in London in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries using Richard Horwood’s map of London from the 1790s.
Resource Type Project
Description Impressive Google-supported project mapping Jewish history in Spain.
Location Spain
Resource Type Project
Title Sagnagrunnur
Description A geographically mapped database of the main published collections of Icelandic folk legends.
Resource Type Project
Description An archive of materials, and a very interesting animated map.
Location Massachussetts, Salem
Resource Type Project
Description Using data from the ‘Legacies of British Slave-ownership’ project, a map of Edinburgh’s involvement in the slave trade.
Resource Type Project
Description Most definitely a ‘Digital Humanities’ project, but unique on this list for its contemporary political engagement, Separados / Torn Apart maps the United States’ anti-migrant infrastructure and money flows
Resource Type Project
Description Mapping the cutlery industry in Sheffield, made by Museums Sheffield.
Resource Type Project
Description A cartographic analysis of ‘ the greatest slave insurrection in the eighteenth century British Empire..
Location Jamaica
Resource Type Project
Description Project in the planning stages, examining Slovenian writing, 1780-1940. Has a very useful overview of literary mapping. [url updated]
Resource Type Project
Description Many projects and articles.
Location Brazil
Resource Type Project
Description A community-driven resource for the spatial humanities.
Resource Type Project
Description Due to launch in August, an interactive map of Lancaster’s First World War casualties. Announcement.
Location Europe
Resource Type Project
Description Analyzing the spread of American slavery into the borderlands between the United States and Mexico in the decades between 1820 and 1850.
Location Texas
Resource Type Project
Description Very interesting PhD research project into the non-use of maps.
Location Global
Resource Type Project
Description A soundmap of New York in the 1920s.
Location New York
Resource Type Project
Description Mapping Moscow’s experience of the Great Terror, covering prisons, and mass execution and burial sites. In Russian.
Resource Type Project
Description West Yorks Archive Service putting historic tithe maps online. A digitisation project, but notable for the way the maps are displayed, alongside (rather than superimposed) contemporary maps.
Location York
Resource Type Project
Description “What happens when a historian of slavery teams up with a computer scientist? A stunning visualization of the transatlantic slave trade.” Such gee-whizery about the slave trade is obviously inappropriate. And it’s not stunning, but a rather poor visualization to boot.
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Title Travelogue
Description Mapping the travels of twentieth century American authors, starting with Ernest Hemingway and Zora Neale Hurston. New URL.
Location Global
Resource Type Project
Description The US News Map allows users to search http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ and visualize the results across space and time.But not the caveats concerning the distribution of the newspapers digitized in this article from Viral Texts. http://viraltexts.org/2015/05/22/computational-methods-for-uncovering-reprinted-texts-in-antebellum-newspapers/
Resource Type Project
Description Very interesting prototype of a set of ways in which to interpret a collection of maps; a sort of ‘distance reading’ for cartography.
Resource Type Project
Description Using historical census data to examine the United States’ urban transition in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Location United States
Resource Type Project
Description Documenting two counties at the time of the American Civil War, with animated battle maps.
Location Virginia
Resource Type Project
Description “Aims at building a multidimensional model of Venice and its evolution covering a period of more than 1000 years..
Resource Type Project
Description Mapping Nazi bookburnings. In German, but a brief overview is given by Google Maps Mania.
Location Germany
Resource Type Project
Title Vias Romanas
Description Roman roads of Castilla and Leon, Spain.
Resource Type Project
Title Vici
Description A very interesting, and here successful, idea: a geospatial wiki. Vici crowdsources the archaeology of classical antiquity.
Resource Type Project
Description Mapping Vienna through a wide range of texts. Mainly in German, but has some English texts in there as well. German translation of ‘The Third Man’, before you ask.
Resource Type Project
Description Mapping the literature of Vilnia, Lithuania. In Lithuanian.
Location Vilnius
Resource Type Project
Description Seemingly dormant project to build a virtual reconstruction of Morgantown, West Virginia, circa 1900.
Location West Virginia
Resource Type Project
Description Remarkable compendium of surveys of Britain.
Location United Kingdom
Resource Type Project
Description Using GIS to build a virtual reconstruction of pre-1814 Washington DC.
Location Washington DC
Resource Type Project
Description Visualizing Emancipation organizes documentary evidence about when, where, and how slavery fell apart during the American Civil War.
Location United States
Resource Type Project
Description “A digital project that explores different ways of visualizing real place names extracted from literary and non-literary texts composed along the arc from England to the Eastern Mediterranean over some four centuries (11-15th c)..
Resource Type Project
Description Title says it all. Just as well, given there’s no blurb or description whatsoever.
Location Iceland
Resource Type Project
Description An archive of documents relating to the ‘Red Summer’ of 1919, “a series of over three dozen (known) riots and lynchings throughout the U.S. .
Resource Type Project
Description An open source suite of ‘noGIS’ tools. Examples focus upon Edinburgh.
Location Edinburgh
Resource Type Project
Description Visualizing Venice is a series of inquiries into how social and economic change shaped the city of Venice over time.
Location Venice
Resource Type Project
Description An old database created by the University of Portsmouth, given a new lease of life via the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, with a Google maps interface. See also the IHR blog post for more information.
Location United Kingdom
Resource Type Project
Description Mapping US elections, 1840 – 2008.
Location United States
Resource Type Project
Description Annotating Joyce’s Ulysses upon contemporary and current maps of Dublin.
Location Dublin
Resource Type Project
Description Maps Danish folklore and tales by theme. Wins best project name award.
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Description Excellent site mapping ghettoization and the Holocaust in Budapest. In English and Hungarian.
Location Budapest

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