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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Project
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.
Link
www.greenestreet.nyc
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Project
Title
Addressing History
Description
Scottish Post Office directories and contemporary maps. The execution of this project is excellent.
Location
Scotland
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Project
Title
AfricaMap
Description
Part of the Harvard World Map project.
Location
Africa
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Project
Title
al-Ṯurayyā Project
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
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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.
Link
barracks18c.ucd.ie/
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Project
Title
Artists in Paris
Description
OFull site now launched: Mapping artists and their neighbourhoods in 17th and 18th century Paris.
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Project
Description
Maps and data relating to trans-atlantic shipping, including the slave trade.
Location
Africa
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Project
Description
Mapping the historic local administrations of Portugal, in Portuguese and English.
Location
Portugal
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Project
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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Project
Title
Atlas of Digital Humanities and Social Science / Atlas de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Digitales
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.
Link
grinugr.org/mapa/
Location
Global
Resource Type
Project
Title
Atlas of Early Printing
Description
Printing in Europe, circa 1450 to 1500.
Link
atlas.lib.uiowa.edu/
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Project
Title
Authorial London
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
Title
Beijing in Transition
Description
A Historical GIS Study of Urban Cultures, 1912-1937. In Chinese and English.
Location
Beijing
Resource Type
Project
Title
Beijing of Dreams
Description
Photos of the old walled city of Beijing.
Resource Type
Project
Title
Belgisch HISGIS
Description
Geo-historical statistics, 1800-1963/2003.
Link
www.hisgis.be/
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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Project
Title
Bombsight
Description
Bomb Sight is mapping the WW2 bomb census in London using web and mobile mapping technology.
Link
bombsight.org/
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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Project
Title
Caribbean Cholera Map
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.
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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.
Link
booth.lse.ac.uk/
Location
London
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Project
Title
China Historical GIS
Description
Covering Chinese history between 221 BCE and 1911 CE.
Location
China
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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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Project
Title
Cleveland Historical
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.
Link
theclio.com/web/
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Project
Title
Collective Violence
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.
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Project
Title
Colonial Dispatches
Description
Digitizations of maps, many with added placename information, as part of a large archive on Vancouver Island and British Columbia.
Link
bcgenesis.uvic.ca/
Location
Canada
Resource Type
Project
Description
Important and well-made project mapping colonial violence against indigenous Australians.
Resource Type
Project
Title
Compostela Geoliteraria
Description
Investigating the literature of the city of Santiago de Compostela. In español.
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Project
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
Title
Danish Folklore
Description
Bilingual (English / Danish) project mapping Danish folklore and Kristensen’s investigations of it.
Location
Denmark
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Project
Title
Danske Herregaarde
Description
Map of Danish Manors, in Danish.
Location
Denmark
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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
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Project
Title
Dictionary of Sydney
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
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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.
Link
daeh.uni-trier.de/
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
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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.
Link
www.atlas-europa.de/
Location
Europe
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Project
Title
Digital Augustan Rome
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.
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Project
Title
Digital Harlem
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.
Link
digitalharlem.org/
Location
New York
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Project
Title
Digital Harrisburg
Description
Exploring the History, Society, and Culture of Harrisburg, PA, USA.
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Project
Title
Digital Karnak
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
Title
Dislocating Ulysses
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
Title
Down Survey of Ireland
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
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Project
Title
Driving Through Time
Description
The landscape of the Blue Ridge Parkway, USA, a 469 mile ‘elongated park..
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Project
Title
Edmonton Pipelines
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/.
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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.
Link
www.revilna.org/
Location
Vilnius
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Project
Title
Falmouth Project
Description
Architecture and history of the town of Falmouth, Jamaica.
Location
Jamaica
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Project
Title
Frankenstein Atlas
Description
Mapping Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Quite the model example in terms of methodological explanation, supporting documentation and data curation.
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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
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Project
Title
Geo-Coded Art
Description
Thousands of paintings plotted. See comments for more details.
Link
www.geocodedart.com/
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Project
Title
GeoBib
Description
Geo-referencing ‘early’ (pre-1949) holocaust and concentration camp literature. In German, English and Polish.
Location
Europe
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Project
Title
Geodia
Description
Visualizing the temporal, geographic, and material aspects of ancient Mediterranean civilizations.
Location
Maritime: Mediterranean
Resource Type
Project
Title
Geography of the Post
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
Title
German Traces NYC
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
Title
Geschichtomat
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
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Project
Description
Plotting the global reach of the U.S. from Independence to Civil War, via diplomatic, military, commercial, religious, and other, missions.
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Project
Title
Going to the Show
Description
Mapping movie-going in North Carolina.
Location
North Carolina
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Project
Title
Google Ancient Places
Description
Mining Google Books for Geographic data relating to Antiquity.
Location
Europe, Maritime: Mediterranean
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Project
Title
Grub Street Project
Description
Very interesting mapping of early modern London’s literature and publishing using contemporary maps.
Location
London
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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.
Link
gulagmap.ru
Resource Type
Project
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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Project
Title
Hestia
Description
Mapping the ancient Mediterranean via Herodotus.
Location
Europe, Maritime: Mediterranean
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Project
Title
HGIS de la Indias
Description
“Un sistema de información histórico-geográfica para Hispanoamérica, 1701-1808).” Very impressive historical geography of eighteenth century Latin America. In Spanish.
Link
www.hgis-indias.net/
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Project
Title
HGIS Germany
Description
Various maps and data relating to German.
Link
www.hgis-germany.de/
Location
Germany
Resource Type
Project
Title
Hidden Florence
Description
Smartphone app guiding users around early Modern Florence, with some of the material downloadable from the website.
Link
hiddenflorence.org/
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Project
Description
A set of interrelated projects on the American Civil War, of which 5 are maps.
Location
United States
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Project
Title
HISGIS
Description
Dutch National GIS under development (and in Dutch).
Location
Netherlands
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Project
Location
Australia
Resource Type
Project
Description
In English and Czech, maps and terrain of the Czech Republic.
Location
Czech Republic
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Project
Title
Holocaust Geographies
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..
Link
hypercities.com
Location
Global
Resource Type
Project
Title
Ieldran
Description
Mapping early Anglo-Saxon cemetaries in England.
Location
England
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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..
Link
imaginerio.org/
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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Project
Title
Imperiia Project
Description
An ambitious project to map the nineteenth century Tsarist Empire. Also notable for curating and releasing.
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Project
Description
Interesting crowd-sourcing project to locate Irish speakers in New York, circa 1910.
Location
New York
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Project
Title
Istanbul Urban Database
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.
Link
joyceways.com/
Location
Dublin
Resource Type
Project
Title
Kaart En Huis Brugge
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
Title
Kansas City Literary Map
Description
Marking literary landmarks across Kansas, Texas, USA.
Location
Kansas City, United States
Resource Type
Project
Title
Know Your Place
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.
Link
www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/
Resource Type
Project
Description
Studying English dialects in the USA.
Link
www.lap.uga.edu/
Location
United States
Resource Type
Project
Description
Investigating the Gough Map of circa 1360.
Link
www.goughmap.org/
Location
United Kingdom
Resource Type
Project
Title
Literary Atlas of Europe
Description
Revitalised! Very interesting investigations into European literature.
Location
Europe
Resource Type
Project
Title
Locating London’s Past
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/
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Project
Title
London Gallery 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
Title
Lviv Interactive Map
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
Link
mapoflondon.uvic.ca/
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
Title
Mapping A Writer’s World
Description
The geographic chronology of Willa Cather.
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Project
Title
Mapping Balzac
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/
Resource Type
Project
Title
Mapping Books
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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Project
Title
Mapping Dante
Description
Mapping all the geographic references in Dante’s Divine Comedy.
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Project
Title
Mapping Decadence
Description
Mapping the networks of the late nineteenth century Parisian decadents. /
Link
mappingdecadence.org
Location
France
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Project
Title
Mapping Decline
Description
Fascinating investigation into urban decline in St Louis.
Location
St. Louis, United States
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Project
Title
Mapping Detroit Slavery
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
Title
Mapping Du Bois
Description
Recreating Du Bois’ survey of Philadelphia’s Seventh War.
Location
Philadelphia
Resource Type
Project
Title
Mapping Dubliners
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
Title
Mapping Gothic France
Description
12th and 13th century French architecture considered in 3 ways: time, space and narrative.
Location
France
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Project
Title
Mapping History
Description
Time-based maps covering 4 continents, in English and German.
Location
Global
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Project
Title
Mapping LGBTQ London
Description
Prototype for an all-UK project, this site allows visitors to contribute their spaces and places of LGBTQ life.
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Project
Title
Mapping Medieval Chester
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
Title
Mapping Mythology
Description
Interesting idea: to map classical mythology in Post-Antique art. Initially covering New York.
Location
New York
Resource Type
Project
Title
Mapping Occupation
Description
Mapping Force, Freedom and the Army in Reconstruction United States.
Resource Type
Project
Title
Mapping Our Anzacs
Description
Mapping Australia’s first world war recruits.
Location
Australia
Resource Type
Project
Title
Mapping Paintings
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
Title
Mapping Petersburg
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
Title
Mapping Radical Tyneside
Description
Mapping the Radical history of North East England.
Link
radicaltyneside.org/
Resource Type
Project
Description
Now live! Graduate project from Kings College London.
Resource Type
Project
Title
Mapping Slavery
Description
Excellent site mapping slavery’s heritage in the Netherlands and Dutch New York, with maps of Indonesia ‘under construction.’ In Dutch and English.
Link
mappingslavery.nl/
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Project
Title
Mapping Texts
Description
A project “experimenting with new methods for finding and analyzing meaningful patterns embedded in massive collections of digital newspapers..
Link
mappingtexts.org/
Location
Texas
Resource Type
Project
Title
Mapping The City In Film
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
Title
Mapping The Gulag
Description
An important project, but so far only using static maps.
Link
www.gulagmaps.org/
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
Resource Type
Project
Title
Mapping The Klan
Description
From Virginia Commonwealth University, a project to map the ‘second’ Klan, from 1915 to 1940.
Resource Type
Project
Title
Mapping The Lakes
Description
Examining literary accounts of the Lake District in Britain, with some excellent theoretical articles.
Location
Lake District
Resource Type
Project
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.
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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.
Link
medianola.org/
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.
Link
www.mesh.ed.ac.uk/
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.
Link
www.mun.ca/mapm/
Resource Type
Project
Description
Micro-mapping project of area now occupied by Columbia University’s main campus in New York.
Resource Type
Project
Title
Myths on Maps
Description
Mapping classical Greek mythology.
Link
myths.uvic.ca/
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
Title
Networked Nations
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
Title
Old Maps Online
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.
Link
orbis.stanford.edu/
Location
Rome
Resource Type
Project
Title
Orlando Furioso Atlas
Description
Mapping “the sprawling world of perhaps the greatest literary work of the Italian Renaissance, Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso..
Link
www.furiosoatlas.com
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/
Link
othellomap.nand.io/
Location
Germany
Resource Type
Project
Title
Out of the Desert
Description
Mapping the detention of Japanese and Japanese-Americans in 1942.
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Project
Title
OutGoing
Description
Mapping New York City’s lgbt nightlife.
Link
outgoingnyc.com/
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Project
Title
Palestine Open Maps
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.
Link
palopenmaps.org/
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
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Project
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PhilaPlace
Description
Great site from the Historical Society of Pennsylvania on the city of Philadelphia.
Link
www.philaplace.org/
Location
Philadelphia
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Project
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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
Title
Placing Literature
Description
Crowdsourcing literary locations.
Location
Global
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Project
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Placing Segregation
Description
Mapping racial segregation in three cities in the 1860s and 1870s: Washington, Nashville and Omaha.
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Project
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Pleiades
Description
Repository of historical geographic information about the Greek and Roman World.
Link
pleiades.stoa.org/
Location
Greece
Resource Type
Project
Description
Text-mining the movement’s newspapers, this project maps notices of Chartist meetings from the Northern Star newspaper.
Location
politicalmeetingsmapper.co.uk/
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Project
Title
Populations Past
Description
Major project mapping the demography (and more) of England and Wales, 1851 to 1911.
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Project
Description
Constructing a geography of indigenous legal culture through digital maps and visualizations.
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Project
Title
Pox Americana
Description
To accompany a book of the same name, a mapping of the American Small Pox epidemic of 1775-1782.
Link
pox.ehistory.org/
Location
United States
Resource Type
Project
Title
Pride of Place
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.
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Project
Description
The history of Queensland, Australia.
Link
www.qhatlas.com.au/
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Project
Description
Mapping the places and patrons of early English theatre.
Location
England
Resource Type
Project
Title
Redlining Richmond
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
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Project
Title
Refugee Family Papers
Description
From the Weiner Library, a map of the family papers of Jews fleeing the Nazi regime.
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Project
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Regnum Francorum Online
Description
Interactive maps of early medieval Europe, 614-840.
Location
Europe
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Project
Title
Renaissance Lyon
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.
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Project
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Romantic London
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.
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Project
Title
Routes of Sefarad
Description
Impressive Google-supported project mapping Jewish history in Spain.
Location
Spain
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Project
Title
Sagnagrunnur
Description
A geographically mapped database of the main published collections of Icelandic folk legends.
Link
sagnagrunnur.com/en/
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Project
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Salem Witch Trials
Description
An archive of materials, and a very interesting animated map.
Location
Massachussetts, Salem
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Project
Title
Scotland Slavery Map
Description
Using data from the ‘Legacies of British Slave-ownership’ project, a map of Edinburgh’s involvement in the slave trade.
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Separados / Torn Apart
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
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Project
Title
Sheffield Cutlery Map
Description
Mapping the cutlery industry in Sheffield, made by Museums Sheffield.
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Project
Description
A cartographic analysis of ‘ the greatest slave insurrection in the eighteenth century British Empire..
Link
revolt.axismaps.com/
Location
Jamaica
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Project
Description
Project in the planning stages, examining Slovenian writing, 1780-1940. Has a very useful overview of literary mapping. [url updated]
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Project
Description
Many projects and articles.
Location
Brazil
Resource Type
Project
Description
A community-driven resource for the spatial humanities.
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Project
Title
Streets of Mourning
Description
Due to launch in August, an interactive map of Lancaster’s First World War casualties. Announcement.
Link
www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/articles/2014/streets-of-mourning-brings-home-first-world-war-carnage/
Location
Europe
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Project
Title
Texas Slavery 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
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Project
Title
The Area Told As A Story
Description
Very interesting PhD research project into the non-use of maps.
Location
Global
Resource Type
Project
Title
The Roaring Twenties
Description
A soundmap of New York in the 1920s.
Location
New York
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Project
Title
Topografiia Terror
Description
Mapping Moscow’s experience of the Great Terror, covering prisons, and mass execution and burial sites. In Russian.
Link
topos.memo.ru/
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Project
Title
Tracks in Time
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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Project
Title
Travelogue
Description
Mapping the travels of twentieth century American authors, starting with Ernest Hemingway and Zora Neale Hurston. New URL.
Location
Global
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Project
Title
U.S. News Map
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/
Link
usnewsmap.com/
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Project
Title
Unveiling of Britain
Description
Very interesting prototype of a set of ways in which to interpret a collection of maps; a sort of ‘distance reading’ for cartography.
Link
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Project
Description
Using historical census data to examine the United States’ urban transition in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Location
United States
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Project
Title
Valley of the Shadow
Description
Documenting two counties at the time of the American Civil War, with animated battle maps.
Location
Virginia
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Project
Title
Venice Time Machine
Description
“Aims at building a multidimensional model of Venice and its evolution covering a period of more than 1000 years..
Link
vtm.epfl.ch/
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Project
Title
Verbrannte Orte
Description
Mapping Nazi bookburnings. In German, but a brief overview is given by Google Maps Mania.
Link
verbrannte-orte.de/
Location
Germany
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Project
Title
Vias Romanas
Description
Roman roads of Castilla and Leon, Spain.
Link
viasromanas.net/
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Project
Title
Vici
Description
A very interesting, and here successful, idea: a geospatial wiki. Vici crowdsources the archaeology of classical antiquity.
Link
vici.org/
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Project
Title
Viennavigator
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.
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Project
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Vilniaus Literatūra
Description
Mapping the literature of Vilnia, Lithuania. In Lithuanian.
Location
Vilnius
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Project
Title
Virtual Morgantown
Description
Seemingly dormant project to build a virtual reconstruction of Morgantown, West Virginia, circa 1900.
Location
West Virginia
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Project
Title
Vision of Britain
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.
Link
visualizingdc.com/
Location
Washington DC
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Project
Title
Visualizing Emancipation
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)..
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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. .
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Project
Description
An open source suite of ‘noGIS’ tools. Examples focus upon Edinburgh.
Location
Edinburgh
Resource Type
Project
Title
Visualizing Venice
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
Title
Voting America
Description
Mapping US elections, 1840 – 2008.
Location
United States
Resource Type
Project
Title
Walking Ulysses
Description
Annotating Joyce’s Ulysses upon contemporary and current maps of Dublin.
Link
ulysses.bc.edu/
Location
Dublin
Resource Type
Project
Description
Maps Danish folklore and tales by theme. Wins best project name award.
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Project
Title
Yellow Star Houses
Description
Excellent site mapping ghettoization and the Holocaust in Budapest. In English and Hungarian.
Location
Budapest
Developed by Thomas Kelly.