LibGuides: Digital Humanities Tools: Mapping

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Storytelling Tools

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.
Google Tour Builder
Google Tour Builder is a web-based storytelling tool which lets you easily create and explore stories and places around the world.

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.

Spatial Data Explorer
Access spatial data previously available through the Arizona Geospatial Data and Maps, Campus Repository, Arizona Regional Image Archive, and other campus sources. Discover data through the map-based interface, preview data and metadata, download data as shapefiles or image files, and share data with others. There is some basic GIS functionality available, but for anything more complex you will need GIS software.
For questions or suggestions for spatial data to add, contact Chris Kollen at lbry-uageoportal@email.arizona.edu.

Unfolding
A library to create interactive maps and geovisualizations in Processing and Java.

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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