Features | Humap

Maps in minutes

Launch a map project in an instant

Just log in, name your project, select your features, and get started!

An illustration demonstrating how records can be turned from rows in a spreadsheet to pins on the map using our bulk import feature.

Everything you need

Fully featured from day one. Overlays, collections, timelines, walking trails, taxonomies, team access, crowdsourcing and more

Tools built for place, time and story.

Records, Collections, Timelines, Trails, Journeys, and more; Humap has everything you need to create immersive, map-based narratives.

Illustrations depicting four key Humap features: walking trails, analytics, timelines, and the webpage creator

Work together

People-powered. Connect and work with your community

Invite your colleagues, students, community group, or the world to contribute to your project. Humap’s unique Contribute System is designed to guide users step by step, making it easy for them to add their own data and content to your map.

An illustration depicting how pins on the map can be opened up into an example of our Record feature

Main features

Records and collections

Transform your content into interactive Records and Collections for seamless storytelling.
Overlays

Humap is designed to show layers of geo-rectified maps or datasets on top of a modern base map. Maps and data can be grouped together to form one layer and multiple layers shown. Users can switch Overlays on and off, make them transparent and reorder them.
Historic journeys and timelines

Create vivid narratives with storytelling tools that guide your audience through every each geospatial and temporal step.
Bulk data imports

Import your data via a spreadsheet and match your data’s headings with your Humap project’s features and data fields. Import from one-hundred to one-million rows of data.
Contribute system (user-generated content)

Give your audience access to your project for the ultimate in community crowd-sourcing engagement, allowing them create their own content and teams.
Data fields and taxonomies

Create structured data fields based on your project’s metadata and controlled vocabularies. Data fields can be completed by your contributing volunteers or community groups, or imported directly into the platform from your existing record data.
Search

Your audience can free text search across records, collections, overlays and data fields. By creating taxonomies around your content, they can also search content through associated categories and tags, and search within date ranges.
Walking trails

Design immersive walking trails from your records and collections, complete with locations, permalinks, and QR codes to captivate your mobile audience.
Content Management System (CMS) and Pagemaker

Effortlessly create, curate, and organise your content with our intuitive no-code CMS. Pagemaker creates multimedia web pages around your interactive map that engage and inform your audience.
Rich media

Showcase high-quality videos, 3D objects, images, and media with IIIF support, allowing users to zoom in and explore every detail.
Internationalisation

Your Humap instance interface is accessible globally and is available in Arabic, English, French, German, Brazilian Portuguese, and Spanish. Other languages will be added on a per project basis.
Legacy Mode

Humap Legacy Mode keeps your map alive after the project has ended.
Subscription platform

Manage one or multiple projects with ease, controlling user access and admin rights through Humap’s intuitive subscription platform.
Desktop, tablet, mobile

Humap is a web-based platform that uses the latest technology to present maps and content on big screens, tablet-sized screens, and smartphone screens. Each size being uniquely catered for from the same platform.