This work is supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Humanities Advancement Grant.
Allmaps is a set of tools that make it easier and more fun to georeference maps. These tools make it easier because you don’t need to work with desktop GIS software or . And they make it more fun because the georeferenced map data that gets created is super lightweight and standardized and interoperable. Meaning you can make fun web apps, like Allmaps Here or Allmaps Arcade—but you can also build pipelines for working with this data in a traditional GIS environment, as we do to create new layers for Atlascope.
In November of 2024, the Leventhal Center organized a public convening to discuss and share ideas—not just about the Allmaps project, but about how Allmaps fits into our broader commitments to public geography.
As part of the public convening, our Allmaps Research Fellows shared progress on their work so far. The Fellows are
The Allmaps team shared updates on project developments. We also welcomed the entire project team to Boston. This was our first in-person meeting across multiple institutions and two continents.
At a follow up gathering, held on Stanford’s campus in February 2025, we dove even deeper into the questions around sustainability, persistence of spatial data, and collaboration across different institutions. The “Colocate” meeting, as we called it, brought together geospatial and library experts across three technical domains: the IIIF consortium, the GeoBlacklight community, and the Allmaps project team, plus a number of attendees who were only informally affiliated with this
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