OpenHistoricalMap/Projects

OpenHistoricalMap is informally organized into community projects that focus on specific places or themes in the map across time. These projects are documented here to coordinate efforts and serve as a starting point for research.

Structure of a project

A typical project page includes:

Context about why the place or theme is historically significant
A description of what has been mapped so far
Priorities for improving coverage
Online resources to consult when mapping
Sources of imported data (or potential sources)

Creating a project page is a good way to attract other mappers to collaborate with you in building up local coverage.

Themes

The following projects are distributed widely and not necessarily associated with standard geographic areas:

Highways - Historic Highway Routes
Waterways - Historic Waterways
Ghost Tracks - Historic Motorsports Venues.
Open Gravestones - A project to provide open burial data built on open standards
Railway - Railroads/railways of the world.
Stadiums - Stadiums and sports venues that are no longer with us
World's Fairs - historical World's Fair Venues

Diversity

Projects that focus on the minority/ethnic/gender/racial past.

Geographies

Africa

Colonial Africa

Asia

Philippines

Metro Manila - Development of Metropolitan Manila
Baguio - Development of the City of Baguio

South Vietnam

South Vietnam, especially names of administrative regions

Europe

Muninn WW1 - WW1 Trench Geometries / Artillery emplacements.

Romans

Roman Roads - Continent-wide route network of Roman Empire (routing demo)
Roman Places - map the civitates and oppida.
Roman Empire - map the Roman empire

Czech Republic

Open Historical Map/Projects/Indication Sketches – Cadastral map of Austria from 1826–1843

Estonia

Tartu - City from 1880-1960 based on snapshots from historical maps

Finland

Helsinki 1907 - Transport routing at 1900
Helsinki - City plan 1820

France

Rennes - City of Rennes, France
Orléans - City of Orléans, France

Germany

Germersheim - Development of Germersheim
Lingenfeld - Development of Lingenfeld
Trier - Development of Trier
Hessen - Development of Hesse

Netherlands

Doetinchem - Development of Doetinchem
Land reclamation in the Netherlands - Evolution of the coastline of the Netherlands

Serbia

Panchevo - Development of Panchevo

Switzerland

Thurgau - Projects in Thurgau

Sweden

3D Buildings - Time enabled 3D mapping of buildings in Sweden.
Stockholm Census Districts – Census districts in the city of Stockholm 1878–1926.
Stockholm County Administrative Boundaries – Administrative boundaries in the county of Stockholm since 1850.

Ukraine

Kyiv 1800 - 2000 - Kiev/Kyiv development of the urban morphology of the center of the capital of Ukraine.

United Kingdom

Derby - mapping the development of Derby
London - mapping the development of London
Scottish Boundaries - historical administrative units of Scotland
Snow's Map - Soho at time of John Snow's Cholera work
Trumpington - The architectural history of Trumpington. route

North America

Canada

Toronto - Development of Toronto and surroundings from the early 19th C to the present
Metro Vancouver - Development of Vancouver, surrounding cities, and the University of British Columbia to the present

Mexico

TBD

United States of America

American Civil War - Sites and events from the American Civil War
Colonizing Trails West Routes of the mass migration west. (Wagon Roads)
Lincoln Highway route of the first major transcontinental highway in the US

Oregon Trail - to trace the route or routes of the migration west known as the Oregon Trail
Railway - Railroads of North America
Route 66 - to trace the route or routes of the transcontinental highway known as Route 66.
US Post Offices - potential import of the Blevins-Helbock Historic Post Office Database
US Forest Service -From the first Forest Reserves designated in 1891 through the designation as National Forests in 1905, as well as special projects such as the Civilian Conservation Corps, Experiment Forests and Ranges, Wilderness and other notable historical aspects.

Arkansas

Pulaski Heights A 20th Century Streetcar Suburb in Little Rock, 1888 - 1962

California

Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, South Bay, San Jose, Silicon Valley, etc.)

Maryland

Baltimore

Massachusetts

Evolution of Boston Bay shoreline since colonization

Michigan

Michigan - Places, roads, administrative boundaries of the state of Michigan, including development of Detroit and environs from the early 19th C to the present

Nevada

Burning Man - 2008 and 2009 maps of Burning Man festival from OSM

New Hampshire

New Hampshire - Mapping roads and buildings of the state of New Hampshire, from 1892 to today

New York

Long Island - some historic roads on Long Island, including the Long Island Motor Parkway.
Capital District of New York - Changes to the Capital District of New York since the 1600s
New York City - Historical Mapping efforts in NYC

Ohio

Cincinnati and vicinity

Oklahoma

Oklahoma State Highway Maps

Virginia

Williamsburg and the College of William & Mary

Washington

Early Seattle - 19th C Seattle
King County 1936 - 1936 aerial image of King County
Sanderson's Map 1835 - 20 miles around Mansfield 1835

Wisconsin

Wisconsin - Mapping roads, places, and administrative boundaries of the state of Wisconsin

Oceania

Australia

Sydney
Newcastle - Newcastle, Lake Macquarie and the Hunter Valley

Pacific

South America

Buenos Aires - Development of city in late 19th C, early 20th C. Initial city stripping prototype.

As yet unsorted

Linked Data - Linked data show/use case and tagging proposal from OpenHistoricalMap.

Proposed

Open Historical Map/Projects/British Railways
Open Historical Map/Projects/Native Lands native lands of the aboriginals/Tribes.

Potential

No one is working on these (yet). If you're not sure what you want to do in OHM, consider them.

West 9th Street, Little Rock, Arkansas. A vibrant African-American business and entertainment district in the 1920s and 1930s. See the Arkansas PBS film Dream Land or read about West Ninth Street
Tulsa's Black Wall Street as it was
Defunct Confederate Memorials in the US
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilwaco_Railway_and_Navigation_Company
Auto Trails Many highways in the old Auto Trails system need to be mapped

External links

OpenHistoricalMap user diaries