LibGuides: Digital Humanities Tools: Mapping

Storytelling Tools

ArcGIS
ArcGIS Online is a web-based mapping software that allows you to create, analyze, and share maps.
Story Maps
Story Maps let you combine authoritative maps with narrative text, images, and multimedia content.
Neatline
Neatline allows scholars, students, and curators to tell stories with maps and timelines.

For more information on specific Storytelling Tools, please explore these links to access the video tutorials.

Spatialization Tools

Carto
A web service for mapping, analyzing and building applications with data.
Hypercities
A digital research and educational platform for exploring, learning about, and interacting with the layered histories of city and global spaces.
Open Street Map
OSM is like the Wikipedia of maps. If you're good with code, you can also configure it for your project.
QGIS
Free and open source software to create, edit, visualize, analyze and publish geospatial information.
Worldmap
Open-source software to explore, visualize, edit, collaborate with, and publish geospatial information, from Harvard.
Unfolding
A library to create interactive maps and geovisualizations in Processing and Java.
MapWarper
MapWarper is a tool that lets you georeference digitized historical maps and compare them to present-day maps.
Nodegoat
Nodegoat is a web-based research environment for modeling humanities data.
Palladio
Palladio is a web-based tool that helps you visualize complex historical data, such as networks and spatial information.

For more information on specific Spatialization Tools, please explore these links to access the video tutorials.

Open Source Spatial Data

Old Maps Online
Search engine for historical maps
Data.gov
Data from the U.S. Government. Includes geographic data.
NYC Open Data
Over 1,000 free datasets for NYC: park locations, restaurant inspection results, MTA data, and more.
NYPL Digitized Map Collection
Collection of maps and atlases from worldwide sources.

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