Central America and the Caribbean
Being a list of Digital Humanities GIS (Geographical Information Systems) projects. See and for background. Not included here are projects directed at digitizing old maps; valuable though that is, what I list here are investigations. It is far from complete; I will be adding to it for the next few months, and then hopefully it will be replaced by a crowd-sourced version.
Addressing History
Scottish Post Office directories and contemporary maps. The execution of this project is excellent.
AfricaMap
Part of the Harvard World Map project.
Animated Atlas of African History
Flash-based map of Africa, available on the web as downloadable executables for Mac and Windows.
Army Barracks of c18th Ireland
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.
Atlantic Networks Project
Mapping the historic local administrations of Portugal, in Portuguese and English.
Atlas of Literary Landscapes of Portugal
Atlas of Literary Landscapes of Portugal, in Portuguese but with an english summary.
Atlas of Early Printing
Printing in Europe, circa 1450 to 1500.
Digital Atlas of Humanities and Social Science / Atlas of Social Sciences and Humanities Digital
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 .
Batanes Islands Cultural Atlas
A Cultural Atlas that includes maps, a timeline, and images of Batanes, the northern most province of the Philippines.
Bombsight
Bomb Sight is mapping the WW2 bomb census in London using web and mobile mapping technology.
Caribbean Cholera Map
Very interesting medical history map and timeline from Duke University’s Haiti Project.
CHALICE
Under development. Creating a historic placename gazetteer for the U.K.
Charles Booth Online Archive
Archive of the Victorian social investigator, including his famed poverty maps of London.
China Historical GIS
Covering Chinese history between 221 BCE and 1911 CE.
Ambitious project that appears dormant, without having produced any maps.
City Witness
“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:
Cleveland Historical
The only mobile phone app produced by academics that I’ve found, now with an improved supporting website.
Clio
Public history in the United States, delivered by website and mobile app.
Collective Violence
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.
Colonial Dispatches
Digitizations of maps, many with added placename information, as part of a large archive on Vancouver Island and British Columbia.
Cultural Atlas of Australia
“An interactive digital map that explores Australian places and spaces as they are represented in and through films, novels, and plays.”
Danish Folklore
Bilingual (English / Danish) project mapping Danish folklore and Kristensen’s investigations of it.
Danish Manor Houses
Map of Danish Manors, in Danish.
tithe
“The Digitally Encoded Census Information and Mapping Archive”, Decima studies Florence under the rule of Duke Cosimo I (1519-1574).
Dictionary of Sydney
Important and ambitious attempt to annotate Sydney.
Digital Atlas of Indonesian History
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.
Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilization
Comprehensive coverage of early Eurasian civilizations.
Digital Atlas on the History of Europe since 1500
Bilingual (English / German) site, under construction but with many interesting static maps.
Digital Augustan Rome
From UCL Qatar, a map-based history of the city of Doha.
Driving Through Time
The landscape of the Blue Ridge Parkway, USA, a 469 mile ‘elongated park.’
Down Survey of Ireland
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.
Edmonton Pipelines
Very interesting collection of projects centered on Edmonton, Canada.
Execution Sites of Jewish Victims
Mapping the sites of the ‘holocaust by bullets’ in Eastern Europe and Russia, that have been investigated by .
Exploring the Vilnius Ghetto
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.
Falmouth Project
Architecture and history of the town of Falmouth, Jamaica.
French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe
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:
Gazetteer of Sixteenth Century Florence
A database of some 750 items, plotted on the 1584 Buonsignori Map of Florence.
GeoBib
Geo-referencing ‘early’ (pre-1949) holocaust and concentration camp literature. In German, English and Polish.
Geo-Coded Art
Thousands of paintings plotted. See comments for more details.
Geodia
Visualizing the temporal, geographic, and material aspects of ancient Mediterranean civilizations.
Geography of the Post
Mapping the Post Office in c19th west USA.
German Traces NYC
The German presence in New York City. Available in three different flavours: for mobile phones, as web page and augmented reality application.
Geschichtomat
Mapping the Jewish history of Hamburg. In German; a useful resume in English can be found at .
Globalization of the United States
Plotting the global reach of the U.S. from Independence to Civil War, via diplomatic, military, commercial, religious, and other, missions.
Going to the Show
Mapping movie-going in North Carolina.
Google Ancient Places
Mining Google Books for Geographic data relating to Antiquity.
Grub Street Project
Very interesting mapping of early modern London’s literature and publishing using contemporary maps.
Hestia
Mapping the ancient Mediterranean via Herodotus.
Hidden Florence
Smartphone app guiding users around early Modern Florence, with some of the material downloadable from the website.
HGIS Germany
Various maps and data relating to Germany
Hidden Patterns of the Civil War
A set of interrelated projects on the American Civil War, of which 5 are maps.
HISGIS
Dutch National GIS under development (and in Dutch).
Historical Geography of facilities for people with intellectual disabilities in Australia
Historical Town Atlas of the Czech Republic
In English and Czech, maps and terrain of the Czech Republic.
Holocaust Geographies
Under development; a blurb can be found at
Hypercities
“A digital research and educational platform for exploring, learning about, and interacting with the layered histories of city and global spaces.”
Ieldran
Mapping early Anglo-Saxon cemetaries in England.
Irish Speakers and the Empire City
Interesting crowd-sourcing project to locate Irish speakers in New York, circa 1910.
Japan Historic Agriculture Browsing System
In Japanese, so I’m relying on Google Translate. Historic maps from the early Meiji period, mid to late nineteenth century, geo-corrected.
JoyceWays
Forthcoming from Boston College (USA), an iPhone app mapping James Joyce’s work onto Dublin.
Kansas City Literary Map
Marking literary landmarks across Kansas, Texas, USA.
Know Your Place
From Bristol Council, a project to map that city’s history, using current and historical maps, and allowing the public to add items.
Linguistic Atlas Projects
Studying English dialects in the USA.
Linguistic geographies: the Gough Map of Great Britain and its Making
Investigating the Gough Map of circa 1360.
Literary Atlas of Europe
Revitalised! Very interesting investigations into European literature.
Locating London’s Past
Just launched, drawing on data from and . Site: Blog:
London Gallery Project
Mapping the art market in nineteenth century London. See also Fletcher and Helmreich’s article based upon the project,
Lviv Interactive Map
Lviv, in the Ukraine, mapped in various historical dimensions.
Map of Early Modern London
Based on Agas’ map from circa 1560. Now creating a gazetteer of early modern London places names:
Mapping A Writer’s World
The geographic chronology of Willa Cather.
Mapping Balzac
Mapping Balzac’s ‘Comedie Humaine’: not only the geography of his series, but the relationships between characters and the events. Old site: New site:
Mapping Books
Various experiments in mapping books.
Mapping Decadence
Mapping the networks of the late nineteenth century Parisian decadents.
Mapping Decline
Fascinating investigation into urban decline in St Louis.
Mapping Detroit Slavery
Aims “to provide a more complete picture of slavery in the Detroit area for the general public, students, and scholars.”
Mapping Dubliners
Mapping James Joyce’s stories.
Mapping History
Time-based maps covering 4 continents, in English and German.
Mapping LGBTQ London
Prototype for an all-UK project, this site allows visitors to contribute their spaces and places of LGBTQ life.
Mapping Medieval Chester
Completed project exploring space, place and identity in Medieval Chester.
Mapping Memoirs of Montparnasse
Small project on Modernist Paris, based on John Glassco’s memoirs, by Dr .
Mapping Mythology
Interesting idea: to map classical mythology in Post-Antique art. Initially covering New York.
Mapping Occupation
Mapping Force, Freedom and the Army in Reconstruction United States.
Mapping Our Anzacs
Mapping Australia’s first world war recruits.
Mapping Paris
Mapping Performance Culture: Nottingham 1857-1867
Mid-Victorian entertainments in the Midlands:
Mapping Petersburg
A project to map the Petersburg Text, starting with Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment.
Mapping Population Change in Ireland 1841-1851
Mapping population change during the Great Famine in Ireland:
Mapping Shakespeare’s London
Mapping The Lakes
Examining literary accounts of the Lake District in Britain, with some excellent theoretical articles.
Mapping The Long Women’s Movement
“An experiment with indexing, using, and ultimately understanding oral history in new ways”, based upon accounts of feminist activism in the late twentieth century.
Mapping The Medieval Urban Townscape
Completed in 2005, a study of new Towns of the late 1200s.
Mapping The Republic of Letters
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.)
Mapping the Spread of American Slavery
Technically and historically very interesting mapping of slavery in the US, 1790-1860. Project: Blog post:
Media NOLA
Histories of culture and cultural production in New Orleans.
MESH: Mapping Edinburgh’s Social History
Ambitious project to develop both an atlas of Edinburgh, 1000 – 2000 AD, and create open source tools for creating historic maps.
Miéville’s Geolocative Cities
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.
Myths on Maps
Mapping classical Greek mythology.
New York City Graffiti and Street Art Project
Flickr, mobile phones and Google maps mash-up investigating NYC street art.
Negro Travellers Green Book
“Assured Protection for the Negro Traveler.” Mapping the 1956 edition of the travel guide for Afro-Americans.
Nolli Map
Interactive version of Giambattista Nolli’s 1748 map of Rome.
On The Line
Under construction, but fascinating already, a project on how schooling, housing, and civil rights shaped Hartford, Connecticut (USA) and its suburbs.
Orbis
The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World
Othello Map
Prototype mapping of literary publishing, using German editions of Othello. Longer description:
Out of the Desert
Mapping the detention of Japanese and Japanese-Americans in 1942.
Palimpsest
Just starting out, Palimpsest will visualize Edinburgh’s literary heritage.
Pelagios
PELAGIOS stands for ‘Pelagios: Enable Linked Ancient Geodata In Open Systems’ – hooray for recursive acronyms!
PhilaPlace
Great site from the Historical Society of Pennsylvania on the city of Philadelphia.
Phone Booth
Project underway, repackaging the Charles Booth poverty maps into mobile phone formats.
Political Meetings Mapper
Launching soon, this project maps notices of Chartist meetings from the Northern Star newspaper.
Pox Americana
To accompany a book of the same name, a mapping of the American Small Pox epidemic of 1775-1782.
Pride of Place
Mapping England’s LGBT past via crowd-sourcing.
Records of Early English Drama
Mapping the places and patrons of early English theatre.
Redlining Richmond
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).”
See also the collection of geo-rectified U.S. redlining maps:
The Roaring Twenties
A soundmap of New York in the 1920s.
Romantic London
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.
Routes of Sefarad
Impressive Google-supported project mapping Jewish history in Spain.
Sagnagrunnur
A geographically mapped database of the main published collections of Icelandic folk legends.
Salem Witch Trials
An archive of materials, and a very interesting animated map.
Sheffield Cutlery Map
Mapping the cutlery industry in Sheffield, made by Museums Sheffield.
Slave Revolt in Jamaica, 1760-1761
A cartographic analysis of ‘ the greatest slave insurrection in the eighteenth century British Empire.’
Space of Slovenian Literary Culture
Project in the planning stages, examining Slovenian writing, 1780-1940. Has a very useful overview of literary mapping. [url updated]
Spatial History Project at Stanford
Many projects and articles.
Streets of Mourning
Analyzing the spread of American slavery into the borderlands between the United States and Mexico in the decades between 1820 and 1850.
The Area Told As A Story
Mapping the travels of twentieth century American authors, starting with Ernest Hemingway and Zora Neale Hurston. New URL:
Urban Transition Historical GIS Project
Using historical census data to examine the United States’ urban transition in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
U.S. News Map
The US News Map allows users to search and visualize the results across space and time.But not the caveats concerning the distribution of the newspapers digitized in .
Valley of the Shadow
Documenting two counties at the time of the American Civil War, with animated battle maps.
Burned cities
Mapping Nazi bookburnings. In German, but a brief overview is given by .
Vias Romanas
Roman roads of Castilla and Leon, Spain.
vici
A very interesting, and here successful, idea: a geospatial wiki. Vici crowdsources the archaeology of classical antiquity.
Viennavigator
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.
Vilnius Literature
Mapping the literature of Vilnia, Lithuania. In Lithuanian.
Virtual Morgantown
Seemingly dormant project to build a virtual reconstruction of Morgantown, West Virginia, circa 1900.
Vision of Britain
Remarkable compendium of surveys of Britain.
Visualizing Early Washington DC
Using GIS to build a virtual reconstruction of pre-1814 Washington DC.
Visualizing Emancipation
Visualizing Emancipation organizes documentary evidence about when, where, and how slavery fell apart during the American Civil War.
Visualizing Medieval Places
“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).”
Visualizing Scriptoria: Mapping Sites of Manuscript Production in Medieval Iceland
Title says it all. Just as well, given there’s no blurb or description whatsoever.
Visualizing Urban Geographies
An open source suite of ‘noGIS’ tools. Examples focus upon Edinburgh.
Visualizing Venice
Visualizing Venice is a series of inquiries into how social and economic change shaped the city of Venice over time.
Voluntary Hospitals Database
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 for more information.
Voting America
Mapping US elections, 1840 – 2008.
Walking Ulysses
Annotating Joyce’s Ulysses upon contemporary and current maps of Dublin.
Yellow Star Houses
Excellent site mapping ghettoization and the Holocaust in Budapest. In English and Hungarian.
Last updated 16 March 2016, currently listing 173 projects. This list is in the public domain, and may be scraped and repurposed freely.
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