OpenHistoricalMap/Bibliography

This page collects published works about or based on OpenHistoricalMap.

OpenHistoricalMap as the primary subject

Academic papers

• Jammbrek, Andrija (June 9, 2021). Kartografija događaja [Cartography of events] (Thesis) (in Croatian). Zagreb: Faculty of Geodesy, University of Zagreb.
• Litvine, Alexis; El Gouj, Hanae; Meyer, Jeff; Starzec, Arthur; Thévenin, Thomas; Séguy, Isabelle; Mimeur, Christophe; Hare, Doriane; Boissard, Raphaëlle; Roy, Damien (November 11, 2022). "Setting a standard for open and collaborative data acquisition for historical cartography: digitizing the french État-major maps as a collaboration between the ANR COMMUNES and open historical maps". GeoHumanities '22: Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Humanities: 1–7. doi:10.1145/3557919.3565811.
• MacLochlainn, Noel (May 2020). Open Historical Maps of Ireland (PDF) (HDip thesis). Waterford: Waterford Institute of Technology.
• Özgen, Volkan (January 17, 2019). Nutzbarkeit von Open Historie Map (OHM) für Open Historical Data Map (OHDM) [Usability of Open History Map (OHM) for Open Historical Data Map (OHDM)] (PDF) (B.Sc. thesis) (in German). Berlin: HTW Berlin.
• Williams, Paul (November 2025). "Mapping London and the world's history with OpenHistoricalMap". Newsletter (101). London: London Topographical Society: 10–11.

Presentations

• Ånäs, Susanna (November 8, 2014). Wikimaps Expeditions. State of the Map 2014. Buenos Aires: OpenStreetMap Foundation.
• Bhangar, Sanjay (April 2, 2022). A Brief Technical History of Open Historical Map. State of the Map U.S. 2022. Tucson, Arizona: OpenStreetMap U.S.
• Clough, Jerry (November 9, 2014). Historical maps. State of the Map 2014. Buenos Aires: OpenStreetMap Foundation.
• Cox, Adam; Meyer, Jeff (June 9, 2023). Mapping Turn of the Century Richmond with OldInsuranceMaps.net & OHM. State of the Map U.S. 2023. Richmond, Virginia: OpenStreetMap U.S. – via Google Slides.
• Cox, Adam; Meyer, Jeff (June 10, 2023). Mapping Old Richmond with OIM & OHM. State of the Map U.S. 2023 (workshop). Richmond, Virginia: OpenStreetMap U.S. – via Google Slides.
• Adam, Cox; Jacob, Hall; O’Brien, Mike; Nguyễn, Minh (January 31, 2026). Historical Mapping with OpenHistoricalMap, OldInsuranceMaps.net, and Yesterdays. Mapping USA 2026. OpenStreetMap U.S.
• deBruijn, Bert (October 21, 2017). WikiWar: Historical Mapping Adventures. State of the Map U.S. 2017. Boulder, Colorado: OpenStreetMap U.S.
• Evans, David; Meyer, Jeff; Warren, Rob; et al. (September 6, 2013). Open Historical Map: re-using obsolete information (PDF). State of the Map 2013. Birmingham: OpenStreetMap Foundation.
• Jenne, David (April 2, 2022). Mapping History in Our National Parks (Office Open XML Presentation). State of the Map U.S. 2022. Tucson, Arizona: OpenStreetMap U.S. – via Slack.
• Jenne, David (June 8, 2024). Turbulent Waters: Showing the Historical Extent and Impact of Natural and Human Activities in OpenHistoricalMap. State of the Map U.S. Salt Lake City.
• Knoppke-Wetzel, Vanessa (October 19, 2022). How to Recreate a(n Old Map) Style. NACIS Annual Meeting 2022. Minneapolis: North American Cartographic Information Society.
• López Mendoza, Rubén; Nguyễn, Minh (September 6, 2025). Mapeando la historia con OpenHistoricalMap. State of the Map Latam 2025 (in Spanish). Medellín: OpenStreetMap Latam.
• Maron, Mikel (March 12, 2013). Open Historical Map. History of Maps. Washington, D.C.: GeoDC.
• Meyer, Jeff (October 13, 2012). OSM & Online Time Machines. State of the Map U.S. 2012. Portland, Oregon: OpenStreetMap U.S. – via SlideShare.
• Meyer, Jeff (September 8, 2019). Open Historical Map: Vector Tiles & Other Updates. State of the Map U.S. 2019. Minneapolis: OpenStreetMap U.S. – via SlideShare.
• Meyer, Jeff (October 30, 2020). Open Historical Map: Approaching Critical Mass. Connect 2020 (lightning talk). OpenStreetMap U.S. – via Google Slides.
• Meyer, Jeff (February 10, 2021). Open Historical Map (OHM) Overview. Geo4LibCamp 2021 (lightning talk). Stanford University – via Google Slides.
• Meyer, Jeff (May 21, 2021). Mapping USA's History on OpenHistoricalMap. Mapping USA 2021. OpenStreetMap U.S.
• Meyer, Jeff (June 11, 2023). How OHM can add Value to Historical Society Projects. State of the Map U.S. 2023. Richmond, Virginia: OpenStreetMap U.S. – via Google Slides.
• Meyer, Jeff; Nguyễn, Minh (August 19, 2023). OpenHistoricalMap: Why and How for CMS. California Map Society Conference. Stanford, California: California Map Society – via Google Slides.
• Meyer, Jeff (November 14, 2023). OpenHistoricalMap Overview: [Please] Unleash your inner [historical] map [data] monster [at OHM!]. UC GIS Week. University of California GIS Leadership Committee.
• Meyer, Jeff; Nguyễn, Minh; Welty, Richard (June 7, 2024). The State of OpenHistoricalMap. State of the Map U.S. 2024. Salt Lake City: OpenStreetMap U.S. – via Google Slides.
• Meyer, Jeff (June 7, 2024). New to OHM? Mapping America's Shrinking Glaciers. State of the Map U.S. 2024 (workshop). Salt Lake City: OpenStreetMap U.S. – via Google Slides.
• Meyer, Jeff (June 21, 2025). (Re)Charting the Course of Empires in OpenHistoricalMap. State of the Map U.S. 2025. Boston: OpenStreetMap U.S.
• Meyer, Jeff (October 18, 2025). OpenHistoricalMap: A Linked, Attribution- & Integration-Friendly Map Complement to Wikimedia. WikiConference North America 2025. New York City.
• Nguyễn, Minh (June 8, 2024). Lowercase history: micromapping the past. State of the Map U.S. 2024. Salt Lake City: OpenStreetMap U.S.
• Nguyễn, Minh (October 18, 2024). OpenHistoricalMap: the most open-ended map in history. NACIS Annual Meeting 2024. Tacoma, Washington: North American Cartographic Information Society.
• Nguyễn, Minh (November 20, 2024). OpenStreetMap & OpenHistoricalMap: local knowledge for global collaboration. Data & Democracy GIS Day. San Jose, California: Spatial Analytics and Visualization Institute, San José State University; GIS & Drone Society, San José State University; Public Interest Technology University Network – via Google Slides.
• Nguyễn, Minh (June 20, 2025). Shining a light: basic strategies for local historical mapping. State of the Map U.S. 2025. Boston: OpenStreetMap U.S.
• Nguyễn, Minh (November 12, 2025). An Accidental Map of the History of Writing (PDF). Unicode Technology Workshop 2025. Mountain View, California: Unicode Consortium. Retrieved December 30, 2025.
• Nguyễn, Minh (January 30, 2026). History hits the road. Mapping USA 2026. OpenStreetMap U.S.
• Proudfoot, Nathan (May 21, 2021). Mapping History in the Pacific Northwest. Mapping USA. OpenStreetMap U.S.
• Waters, Tim (June 14, 2014). OpenHistoricalMap (PDF). State of the Map Europe 2014. Karlsruhe. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 4, 2016. [1]
• Waters, Tim (November 5, 2014). The OpenHistoricalMap Project. Moving Historical Geodata to the Web (lightning talk). New York City: New York Public Library – via Google Slides. [2]
• Waters, Tim (June 7, 2015). Tech Changes to the OpenStreetMap Stack. State of the Map U.S. 2015. New York City – via SlideShare.
• Waters, Tim (July 2015). Open Historical Map. Geomob. London – via SlideShare.
• Waters, Tim (October 3, 2015). Open Historical Map. State of the Map Scotland 2015. Edinburgh – via SlideShare.
• Welty, Richard (June 6, 2015). Mapping Motor Sports Venues Past & Present. State of the Map U.S. 2015. New York City: OpenStreetMap U.S. [3]
• Welty, Richard (July 8, 2020). OpenHistoricalMap. Virtual Mappy Hours. OpenStreetMap U.S. – via SlideShare.
• Welty, Richard (October 8, 2021). OpenHistoricalMap: Historical geography, wiki-style (PDF). WikiConference North America 2021.
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• Welty, Richard (October 27, 2021). OpenHistoricalMap: Mapping the Erie Canal. Virtual Mappy Hours. OpenStreetMap U.S.
• Welty, Richard (April 1, 2022). Life Cycle in OpenHistoricalMap. State of the Map U.S. 2022. Tucson, Arizona: OpenStreetMap U.S. – via SlideShare.
• Welty, Richard (April 2, 2022). The State of Time in OHM. State of the Map U.S. 2022. Tucson, Arizona: OpenStreetMap U.S. – via SlideShare.
• Welty, Richard (November 11, 2022). Linking Wikimedia and OpenStreetMap/OpenHistoricalMap. WikiConference North America + Mapping USA 2022. OpenStreetMap U.S.
• Welty, Richard (June 9, 2023). The OpenHistoricalMap Experiment. State of the Map US 2023. OpenStreetMap U.S. – via SlideShare.
• Welty, Richard (June 11, 2023). OpenHistoricalMap: Doing History. State of the Map US 2023. OpenStreetMap U.S. – via SlideShare.
• Welty, Richard (September 2, 2023). OpenHistoricalMap: Mapping History in New York. NYGeoCon 2023. Albany, New York: NYS GIS Association – via SlideShare.
• Welty, Richard (June 7, 2024). Events Come to OpenHistoricalMap. State of the Map U.S. 2024. Salt Lake City: OpenStreetMap U.S. – via SlideShare.

Blog posts

• Arellano, Juan (July 2, 2021). "Mapping the Tawantinsuyo in OpenHistoricalMap". Cyberjuan – via Medium.
• Bigelow, Sue (October 1, 2015). "Putting the Goad's 1912 Plan into Open Historical Map". AuthentiCity. Vancouver, British Columbia: City of Vancouver Archives.
• Kang, E Roon; So, Wonyoung (29 August 2017). "Cheonggyecheon, Dongdaemun Gentrification: Technical Notes". Seoul Libre Maps – via Medium.
• Larsson, Albin (March 26, 2015). "Mapping the Past with Linked Data in OpenHistoricalMap". Albin Larsson: Blog. Retrieved October 28, 2023.
• Marler, Gregory (21 July 2014). "Curating a Historical Map". Living With Dragons. [4]
• SK53 (11 December 2014). "City Stripping: building historical road layouts from todays data". Maps Matter – via Blogger.
• SK53 (31 December 2014). "Finding ones way around Buenos Aires in 1870: a proof-of-concept for routing with OpenHistoricalMap data". Maps Matter – via Blogger.
• Straub, David (August 3, 2024). "The new OpenHistoricalMap integration in Gramps Web". Munich: Grampshub.

Video tutorials

• OSM for History Buffs (October 22, 2021). "Introduction to OpenHistoricalMap - Time Travel Map". YouTube.
• OSM for History Buffs (October 24, 2021). "Mapping Youghal on OpenHistoricalMap". YouTube.
• OSM for History Buffs (November 16, 2021). "Mapping Youghal Train Station on OpenHistoricalMap". YouTube.
• Stéphane, Séverine (February 17, 2023). "Démarrer dans Open Historical Map". YouTube.
• Thelone1986 (July 16, 2023). "Seraing Autrefois (sur OpenHistoricalMap) - Épisode 1 (Présentation et (presque) premiers pas)" (in French). YouTube.

OpenHistoricalMap as a major subject

Presentations

• Grossner, Karl (November 5, 2014). Focused Themes for Crowd-Sourced Map Digitization. Moving Historical Geodata to the Web (lightning talk). New York City: New York Public Library – via Google Slides.
• Meyer, Jeff (June 7, 2013). OSM Megalomaniac's Cookbook: Lessons Learned in Setting Up Your Own Planet. State of the Map U.S. 2013. San Francisco: OpenStreetMap U.S. – via SlideShare.
• Nguyễn, Minh (November 11, 2022). The Case for Sister Projects. WikiConference North America + Mapping USA 2022. OpenStreetMap U.S.
• Roberto, Frankie (July 12, 2009). Mapping History on Open Street Map. State of the Map 2009. Amsterdam: OpenStreetMap Foundation – via SlideShare.

OpenHistoricalMap as source material

Books

• Baránek, Daniel (2023). Překračování hranic ghetta: Proměna židovských sídelních struktur a akulturační strategie židů [Crossing the ghetto borders: the transformation of Jewish settlement structures and the acculturation strategies of Jews] (in Czech). Praha: Historický ústav. pp. 18–19. ISBN 978-80-7286-413-3 – via Bibliography of the history of the Czech Lands.
• Broomhall, Susan (2023). Evangelizing Korean Women and Gender in the Early Modern World: The Power of Body and Text. Leeds: Arc Humanities Press. ISBN 978-1-6418-9367-1 – via Project MUSE.
• Forster, Mike (2023). Palo Alto Early Filmmakers (PDF).
• Schönert, Ralf (January 23, 2025). Flucht, Vertreibung, Integration: Eine Nachkriegsgeschichte mit Gegenwartsbezug (in German). Books on Demand. p. 12. ISBN 978-3-7693-0436-7 – via Google Books.

Academic papers

• Baránek, Daniel (2022). "Transformation of the Jewish Space in Kolín, 1848–1921". Judaica Bohemiae. 57 (1). Prague: Jewish Museum in Prague: 67.
• Bast, Hannah; Brosi, Patrick; Kalmbach, Johannes; Lehmann, Axel (October 29, 2024). Efficient Spatial Joins for Large Sets of Geometric Objects (PDF). 32nd International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (SIGSPATIAL ’24). New York City: Association for Computing Machinery. doi:10.1145/3748636.3762757.
• Dinkelspiel, Emma (2025). Writing the Border between Socialist Self and State: Christa Wolf's East German Autofiction (Thesis). Slavic Studies Honors Papers. New London, Connecticut: Connecticut College. pp. 96–97.
• Le Texier, Marion; Lemoy, Rémi; Rabehi, Walid (2023). SUCHIES Open Urban Database: History and Urban Evolution of French Cities Over Three Centuries (Report). doi:10.34847/nkl.aea7388x. Research data deposited in OpenHistoricalMap. [5][6]
• Litvine, Alexis; El Gouj, Hanae; Meyer, Jeff; Starzec, Arthur; Thévenin, Thomas; Séguy, Isabelle; Mimeur, Christophe; Hare, Doriane; Boissard, Raphaëlle; Roy, Damien (November 11, 2022). "Setting a standard for open and collaborative data acquisition for historical cartography: digitizing the french État-major maps as a collaboration between the ANR COMMUNES and open historical maps". GeoHumanities '22: Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Humanities: 1–7. doi:10.1145/3557919.3565811.
• Nguyễn, Minh; Miller, Kirk (April 5, 2024). "Annotation request for Vietnamese apex" (PDF). Unicode Consortium. Retrieved December 19, 2024.
• Zubar, Maxim (March 21, 2025). Веб-додаток для візуалізації змін кордонів з використанням клієнт-серверної архітектури [Web application for visualizing boundary changes using client-server architecture]. LIV All-Ukrainian Scientific and Technical Conference of the Faculty of Information Technologies and Computer Engineering (in Ukrainian). Vinnytsia: Vinnytsia National Technical University. Retrieved March 28, 2025.

News articles

• Denning, Liam (March 11, 2026). "Finland Is Ready for Russia. Is Anyone Else?". Bloomberg Opinion. New York City. Retrieved March 11, 2026.
• Häsler, Georg (May 22, 2025). "Respekt durch eine robuste Partnerschaft: Europa braucht mit der Türkei ein Verhältnis auf Augenhöhe" [Respect through a robust partnership: Europe needs a relationship on an equal footing with Turkey]. Neue Zürcher Zeitung (op-ed) (in German). Zürich. Retrieved May 26, 2025.

Software packages

• Santini, Daniele. "OSM-Wikidata Map Framework". Version 4.4.0 and above.
• Straub, David. "Gramps Web". Version 24.7.0 and above.

Websites

• Baránek, Daniel. "Maps of Jewish Settlement, 1857–1930".
• Campbell, Craig. "Pastmaps". [7]
• Dhillon, Kyle (March 2026). "OpenHistory".
• "OldMapsOnline". Unterägeri: Klokan Technologies. Prototype limited to Lille. [8][9]
• Plett, Charlie. "The Mennonite Map".
• "Themenportal Rechte Gewalt" [Right-Wing Violence Thematic Portal]. Archivportal-D (in German). Berlin: Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek. April 23, 2026.
• Shade, Jordan (2025). "Doublemap". [10]
• theRAGEhero. "GlobStory.it".
• "Time-Travel".
• Welty, Richard. "Ghost Tracks Tests & Examples".
• Wieringa, Hidde. "OpenRailwayMap".

Blog posts

• Warren, Robert (April 7, 2017). "The Geometries of Vimy Ridge, 100 years ago". The Muninn Project. Retrieved February 18, 2023.

Videos

• Doiron, Nick (October 12, 2025). "Uncovering the border of Cold War Berlin". LeafHack. Retrieved October 12, 2025 – via YouTube.
• Harris, Johnny (December 11, 2025). "How Switzerland Dominated the Alps" [Speed Running Switzerland (on trains)]. YouTube. 4:56–5:37. Retrieved December 12, 2025.
• Save Standard Time (April 22, 2024). "Evolution of federal time zones in the US (1919–2024) [No Audio]". YouTube. Retrieved April 23, 2024.

See also

• Major sources used in the creation of OpenHistoricalMap