On this page you can find a list of resources designed to make your journey into the world of mapping easier.

If you come across a broken link on this page, or would like to suggest an addition, please email [email protected]. 

Happy Mapping!
– The Humap Team

Inspiration

Humap:

• Tampa Through Time: an interactive history of Tampa, Florida  (University of South Florida)
• Senfl’s World: the life and times of Ludwig Senfl, renaissance musician (University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna)
• Twin It! digitised 3D objects from across Europe (Europeana)
• Unlocking North East Jewish History: an archival exploration of Jewish history in the North East of England (Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums)
• Amicable Contributors: a mapping and crowdsourcing portal for historical insurance documents (University of Cambridge & Aviva)
• Scarborough Atlas: Scarborough’s history, brought to life (Scarborough Museums & Galleries)
• 100 Years of Mile Cross : a crowdsourced history of one of the UK’s oldest council estates (The Common Lot)
• Facing the Past: uncovering Lancaster’s hidden links to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade (Lancaster Priory & partners)
• The UK Holocaust Map: mapping sites of Holocaust remembrance in the UK (The Association of Jewish Refugees)
• The Refugee Map: stories of displacement from Nazi-occupied Europe’s Jewish refugees (The Wiener Holocaust Library)
• Layers of London: a mass-crowdsourced history of London (The Institute of Historical Research & partners)
• Islington’s Pride: LGBTQ+ history and culture from one of London’s most iconic boroughs (Islington Council & Museum)
• Coventry Atlas: photographs, documents, and collections from Coventry’s past (Coventry University & partners)
• Mapping Memory: oral histories of the Liverpool docklands, 1950-1970 (University of Liverpool & the Maritime Museum)

Map projects on other software

• imagineRio: watch Rio de Janeiro grow over time (Rice University & partners)
• Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the American City  (University of Iowa)
• Mapping Occupation: U.S. Army posts during Reconstruction (University of Georgia)
• The Gott Projection – the most accurate projection of earth yet? (Princeton University)
• Populations Past – Atlas of Victorian & Edwardian Population: mapping British populations between 1850-1930 (University of Cambridge)
• The Digital Atlas of European Historiography (Trier University & partners)
• Macabre London: London’s dark history (London Dark Tourist)
• Climate Data Online: free contemporary and historical climate data for the US
• The National Risk Index: mapping natural disaster risk in the US (Federal Emergency Management Agency)
• Old Maps Online: A new way to discover history
• ShadeMap: global sun simulation!
• The Plant Hardiness Map (PlantMaps)
• Owned Away From Home: Exploring non-local ownership of U.S. housing  (Alex Alsup & Matthew Klovski for Regrid)
• Gloucestershire’s Natural Capital (Gloucestershire Local Nature Partnership)
• Viabunudus, an interactive of map of major north European route networks around 1500CE (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen & partners)
• Digital Periegesis: tracing ancient Greek stories (Umeå University)
• Animated map projections (Jason Davies)
• The invasion of America (eHistory.org)
• NearbyWiki: see wikipedia articles near you! (Hello Digital World)
• The Key To English Place-Names: an interactive etymological adventure (University of Nottingham)
• Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene (Stanford University & partners)
• Georeferenced first edition ordnance survey maps (National Library of Scotland
• Oculi Mundi: explore ancient maps of the world on this immersive website (The Sunderland Collection)
• The Poets Map: mapping the lives of poets in the long 18th century (University of Oxford)
• Inventor of Britain: the complete works of Humphrey Llwyd (1527-68), the iconic Welsh cartographer (National Library of Wales)
• Historic England’s Ghost Signs: contribute your own pictures of ghost signs to this collaborative map (Historic England)
• Historic Thaxted: historical maps of Thaxted, Essex (Notre Dame School)
• The new official Ireland Historic Environment Viewer: created by the National Monuments Service using ESRI, this new portal makes accessing Irish digital heritage much easier
• The Wreck Viewer: also from the Irish National Monuments service, this portal maps out shipwrecks on Irish waters (Department of Housing, Local Government & Heritage)
• The Global Power Plant Explorer: a “deep, visual dive into the planet’s energy heartbeat” (Illustreets)
• The 1941 Official Railway Map of Scotland: trace Scotland’s lost railways (National Library of Scotland)
• This Tithe Map of Wales: browse over 300,000 entries from tithe documents created  between 1838 and 1850 (National Library of Wales)
• Queering the Map is a crowdsourced project documenting LGBTQ+ oral histories across the globe. Some may be NSFW! (Lucas LaRochelle)
• Mapping Black London: the stories of Black Londoners, past and present (Northeastern University & partners)
• UK UNESCO sites (UNESCO)
• Hivemapper: a new way to crowdsource GIS data (BeeMaps)

GIS & Mapping 

• Avoidance Mapping: What It Is & Where It Fits in the Cartography Cube by Rose Njambi for GeoAwesome
• Nine new free datasets from Ordnance Survey and
  British Geological Survey
• GIS and the Mapping of Enslaved Movement: The Matrix of Risk by Christy Hyman
• Voices in a contested landscape: community participation and upland management in the North York Moors National Park by Thomas Ratcliffe
• Should this be a map or 500 maps? by Elan Ullendorf for Escape the Alogrithm
  
• The current state of map design in OpenStreetMap by ‘chris’ for Imagico
• Shapefile must die!

Articles & Essays 

• The Role of Maps in Virtual Research Methods by Martin Dodge
• The story of the first all-Ireland mapping survey 200 years ago by Catherine Porter, UL and Keith Lilley, QUB
• Journal of Historical Geography volume 84 
• Who was Charles Booth, and what are his poverty maps? by Julie Goucher
• Flat Maps that improve on the Winkel Tripel by J. Richard Gott III, David M. Goldberg, and Robert J. Vanderbei
• Joseph Priestley Created Revolutionary “Maps” of Time by Alyson Foster
• Cowboys and Consortia: Thoughts on DH Infrastructure by Quinn Dombrowski for DARIAH
• Using AI to Digitise Data from Scanned Maps by Caitlin Dempsey for Geography Realm 
• The Origins of the Generic Mapping Tools: From Table Tennis to Geoscience by Paul Wessel
• Transformative Experience Through Storytelling By Juliette Zeidan & Azza ElHassan for MuseumNext 
• Radical Cartography by Bill Rankin & Contributors 
• A review of the state of crowdsourced geospatial data by Caitlin Dempsey for Geography Realm
• Maps shape our lives – showing us not just where we are, but who we are by Mike Duggan for The Conservation 
• How Maps Can Kill: Lessons in Critical Cartography: a discussion of the political potency of maps and cartography
• Why do stories matter to museums and how can museums become better storytellers?
• Digital collections from GLAM Institutions – this policy paper explores the issues of copyright in digital collections
• These abstracts from a 2019 conference on cartographic heritage are a fantastic bitesize lunch read

Tools & Resource Packs 

• A Creative Placemaking Approach Culture and Creativity as a Tool in Community Wealth Building and Community-Led Place Development from The Stove Network, with support from South of Scotland Enterprise
• Design Patterns For Effective Maps UX
• ColorBrewer generates beautiful colour palettes for map projects. Created by Cynthia Brewer, Mark Harrower and The Pennsylvania State University
• Using historical maps to research climate change – a handy toolkit from the National Library of Scotland
• Using Fair With Care: a conversation about sharing cultural heritage images as data in South Africa

Publicly Available Data

• Nine new free datasets from Ordnance Survey and  British Geological Survey
• Awesome Public Datasets
• The Humanitarian Data Exchange
• The Open Data Hub: Dive into Historic England’s Spatial Data Hub