Launch a map project in an instant
Everything in your Humap subscription is set up to launch your map project instantly. Log in, configure a few global settings for your project’s location, and start adding data and content!
The user-friendly map platform with collaborative features
Maps in minutes
Spoilt for features
Powered-up out of the box. Overlays, collections, walking trails, taxonomies, teams and more.
Creating geospatial and temporal projects calls for powerful mapping tools. With Humap, you can bring history to life using features like historic journeys and timelines, create walking trails for your audience, and plot civic or historical record data using georeferenced historic maps.
Build with friends
People-powered. Connect and work with your community
Invite your colleagues, students, community group – or the wider public – 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.
Main features
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Records and collections
Transform your content into interactive records and collections for seamless storytelling.
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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.
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Historic journeys and timelines
Create vivid narratives with storytelling tools that guide your audience through every each geospatial and temporal step.
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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.
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Contribute system (user-generated content)
Give your audience access to your project for the ultimate in community crowd-sourcing engagement – allowing them to add their own records and collections, and create their own or join other teams.
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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.
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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.
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Walking trails
Design immersive walking trails from your records and collections, complete with locations, permalinks, and QR codes to captivate your mobile audience.
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Content Management System (CMS) and Pagemaker
Effortlessly create, curate, and organize your content with our intuitive no-code CMS. Pagemaker creates multimedia web pages around your interactive map that engage and inform your audience.
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Rich media
Showcase high-quality videos, 3D objects, images, and media with IIIF support, allowing users to zoom in and explore every detail.
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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.
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Legacy Mode
Humap Legacy Mode keeps your map alive after the project has ended.
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Subscription platform
Manage one or multiple projects with ease, controlling user access and admin rights through Humap’s intuitive subscription platform.
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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.