Humap is more than a map. It’s a tool for collaboration, participation, and civic impact.
From crowdsourcing data with Placemaker to providing a space for communities to share knowledge with the Contribute System, Humap has all the tools you need to get your crowdsourcing/civic engagement project off the ground
Our Contribute system makes crowdsourcing user-generated content a breeze.
All your users need is an internet connection, an email, and an idea to get started.
In minutes Contribute users can create Records, Collections, Timelines, Walking Trails, Journeys and Teams.
From small classroom groups to mass crowdsourcing, this feature makes sharing and learning simple and fun.
Curious? You can test this feature out on Layers of London or take a look at our tutorials page for more information
Placemaker is a simple, web-native, no-code citizen science crowdsourcing tool that lets people draw on maps.
It’s the platform of choice for popular archaeology company DigVentures, who are using it to crowdsource archaeological and ecological data. Contributions from hundreds of volunteers will help shape heritage and environmental policy—proof that community mapping can drive real-world impact.
Users can toggle between different layers of geographical data, such as historical maps and LiDAR, and use intuitive drawing tools to create polygons. These can be labelled with metadata, exported, and repurposed across projects.
Best of all, data created in Placemaker can be seamlessly imported into Humap, linking public participation with long-term storytelling and research.
Humap’s original crowdsourcing project! At time of writing, Layers of London has over 6,500 registered users who have contributed more than 12,500 individual Records. From capturing oral histories of everyday life to mapping social change and showcasing student research, Layers of London proves just how much a single platform can do.
Alongside its vibrant user-generated content, Layers hosts curated Collections from partner institutions like the British Library, and features over 30 geo-referenced historical maps.
It’s a sprawling, joyful love letter to London—and to the power of citizen historians. We’re rather fond of it.
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Amicable Contributors is a crowdsourcing platform led by the University of Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, with support from Aviva, one of the UK’s oldest insurance companies. The project invites volunteers to help uncover historical data by locating addresses and transcribing text from centuries-old insurance records.
DigVentures the UK-based archaeology company, are turning ‘archaeology-from-the-sofa’ into a reality.
Together, we built Deep Time—a Collective Intelligence portal where trained volunteers (known as Pastronauts!) can layer historical maps, satellite imagery, LiDAR scans and Historic Environment Record data to identify potential archaeological sites.
Once submitted, the data is reviewed by professionals and used to inform rewilding efforts and ecological planning—bridging the gap between public participation, heritage research, and environmental policy.
Deep Time has enlisted over [x] volunteers to survey [x] land, resulting in a huge uptick of new features and fidelity of data.
A cross-disciplinary team of academics, led by Dr Arathi Sriprakash at the University of Oxford, is inviting the people of Bristol to imagine a reparative future for education in the UK.
Using Humap’s interactive platform, participants are sharing personal stories of their schooling in Britain, alongside their hopes and visions for a more just, inclusive educational system. It’s a powerful example of how place-based storytelling can drive dialogue, reflection, and change.
Coasts in Mind is a new citizen science project that’s using vernacular photography and cultural ephemera to map the changing coastlines of England.
This project will invite hundreds of volunteers to submit their own media and recollections of the coastlines.
It hasn’t quite launched yet, so watch this space!
