OpenHistoricalMap/Bibliography

This page collects published works about or based on OpenHistoricalMap.

OpenHistoricalMap as the primary subject

Academic papers

• Jammbrek, Andrija (June 9, 2021) (in Croatian). Kartografija događaja (Thesis). Zagreb: Faculty of Geodesy, University of Zagreb. https://www.croris.hr/crosbi/publikacija/ocjenski-rad/442123. 
• Litvine, Alexis; El Gouj, Hanae; Meyer, Jeff; Starzec, Arthur; Thévenin, Thomas; Séguy, Isabelle; Mimeur, Christophe; Hare, Doriane et al. (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. https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3557919.3565811. 
• MacLochlainn, Noel (May 2020). Open Historical Maps of Ireland (HDip thesis). Waterford: Waterford Institute of Technology. https://www.academia.edu/download/63564412/OPEN-HISTORICAL-MAPS-OF-IRELAND-MACLOCHHALINN-2020-WITHDIPCS20200608-40731-k4c1fi.pdf. 
• Özgen, Volkan (January 17, 2019) (in German). Nutzbarkeit von Open Historie Map (OHM) für Open Historical Data Map (OHDM) [Usability of Open History Map (OHM) for Open Historical Data Map (OHDM)] (B.Sc. thesis). Berlin: HTW Berlin. http://www.sharksystem.net/htw/FP_ICW_BA_MA/2019_Oezgen_Bachelorarbeit.pdf. 

Presentations

• Ånäs, Susanna (November 8, 2014). “Wikimaps Expeditions”. State of the Map 2014. Buenos Aires: OpenStreetMap Foundation. https://harrywood.dev.openstreetmap.org/sotm2014-php/session.php?title=Wikimaps_Expedition. 
• 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. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-JA8eSum-xGMgSS42-TQo6EAjE2qjQGt2tUyHIpsmZQ/edit#slide=id.p. 
• Cox, Adam; Meyer, Jeff (June 10, 2023). “Mapping Old Richmond with OIM & OHM” (workshop). State of the Map U.S. 2023. Richmond, Virginia: OpenStreetMap U.S. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1OB4P4SXu0VkWjcQppFmxI5p8L1ApLOj0Awh6E0sQ9pU/edit#slide=id.p. 
• deBruijn, Bert (October 21, 2017). “WikiWar: Historical Mapping Adventures”. State of the Map U.S. 2017. Boulder, Colorado: OpenStreetMap U.S. https://2017.stateofthemap.us/program/wikiwar-historical-mapping.html. 
• 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. https://www.dbdump.org/~warren/publications/evans:sotm:2013/sotm:2013.pdf. 
• 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. https://slack-files.com/T029HV94T-F03ATD5UM3L-3e3ff49f5a. 
• 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. https://openstreetmap.us/events/state-of-the-map-us/2024/turbulent-waters-showing-the-historical-extent-and-impact-of-natural/. 
• Knoppke-Wetzel, Vanessa (October 19, 2022). “How to Recreate a(n Old Map) Style”. NACIS Annual Meeting 2022. Minneapolis: North American Cartographic Information Society. 
• Maron, Mikel (March 12, 2013). “Open Historical Map”. History of Maps. Washington, D.C.: GeoDC. http://files.groundtruth.in/presentations/geodc-historic/. 
• Meyer, Jeff (October 13, 2012). “OSM & Online Time Machines”. State of the Map U.S. 2012. Portland, Oregon: OpenStreetMap U.S. https://www.slideshare.net/gwhathistory/osm-and-online-time-machines-sotm-us-2012-pdx. 
• Meyer, Jeff (September 8, 2019). “Open Historical Map: Vector Tiles & Other Updates”. State of the Map U.S. 2019. Minneapolis: OpenStreetMap U.S. https://www.slideshare.net/gwhathistory/open-historical-map-vector-tiles-other-updates. 
• Meyer, Jeff (October 30, 2020). “Open Historical Map: Approaching Critical Mass” (lightning talk). Connect 2020. OpenStreetMap U.S. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1bIUfJcK3GYeEWawEwtcbWZ5skz75niUYS76jF7QRWR0/edit. 
• Meyer, Jeff (February 10, 2021). “Open Historical Map (OHM) Overview” (lightning talk). Geo4LibCamp 2021. Stanford University. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1en4OyXYfSO5GqbYd2ieyWigN4Ns28NQdEGzWSWJDiMo/edit. 
• Meyer, Jeff (May 21, 2021). “Mapping USA's History on OpenHistoricalMap”. Mapping USA 2021. OpenStreetMap U.S. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/123F1m8xAQ4tWMqPXhW-19_YLAvqQFqmLXllWiwX56tY/edit#slide=id.p. 
• 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. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1SNHttCD0_5HrfFpu8_sPd7A5QMtZMAP1ul57zkGyp_4/edit#slide=id.p. 
• Meyer, Jeff; Nguyễn, Minh (August 19, 2023). “OpenHistoricalMap: Why and How for CMS”. California Map Society Conference. Stanford, California: California Map Society. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Wo0RspPi_DLJF8giP-KkjWM37OhnYpwoLCVUrsvJxbA/edit. 
• 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. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-h5IbuqA27GB49lnqGxhFIwT5nK27sdmVS2wSwlc8dY/edit. 
• Meyer, Jeff (June 7, 2024). “New to OHM? Mapping America's Shrinking Glaciers” (workshop). State of the Map U.S. 2024. Salt Lake City: OpenStreetMap U.S. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1d5P_HgRVtQrXP6kZwvdiW4M6AwygxpcWug_cMgTr4_M/edit. 
• Meyer, Jeff (June 21, 2025). “(Re)Charting the Course of Empires in OpenHistoricalMap”. State of the Map U.S. 2025. Boston: OpenStreetMap U.S. 
• 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. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1uX2nvhkvBHm3CrJh529bxfhMctLPguKPvFOxCoJhg98/edit. 
• 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. 
• 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 on August 4, 2016. http://web.archive.org/web/20160804233510/http://sotm-eu.org/slides/95-3.pdf.  [1]
• Waters, Tim (November 5, 2014). “The OpenHistoricalMap Project” (lightning talk). Moving Historical Geodata to the Web. New York City: New York Public Library. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1x1ecAdiNeXxkKw86Ks9WQwGcTj1z_d5tTvTEMhIXICc/edit#slide=id.g41226ab1b_0548.  [2]
• Waters, Tim (June 7, 2015). “Tech Changes to the OpenStreetMap Stack”. State of the Map U.S. 2015. New York City. https://www.slideshare.net/chippy/tim-waters-openhistoricalmap-sotmus-2015. 
• Waters, Tim (July 2015). “Open Historical Map”. Geomob. London. https://www.slideshare.net/chippy/tim-waters-openhistoricalmap-geomob-london-july-2015. 
• Waters, Tim (October 3, 2015). “Open Historical Map”. State of the Map Scotland 2015. Edinburgh. https://www.slideshare.net/chippy/tim-waters-openhistoricalmap-state-of-the-map-scotland-2015. 
• Welty, Richard (June 6, 2015). “Mapping Motor Sports Venues Past & Present”. State of the Map U.S. 2015. New York City: OpenStreetMap U.S. https://2015.stateofthemap.us/mapping-motor-sports-venues-past-and-present.  [3]
• Welty, Richard (July 8, 2020). “OpenHistoricalMap”. Virtual Mappy Hours. OpenStreetMap U.S. https://www.slideshare.net/nfgusedautoparts/mappyhour2020pdf. 
• Welty, Richard (October 8, 2021). “OpenHistoricalMap: Historical geography, wiki-style”. WikiConference North America 2021. //wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:OpenHistoricalMap_Historical_Geography_Wiki_style.pdf. 
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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. https://www.slideshare.net/nfgusedautoparts/life-cycle-modeling-in-openhistoricalmap. 
• Welty, Richard (April 2, 2022). “The State of Time in OHM”. State of the Map U.S. 2022. Tucson, Arizona: OpenStreetMap U.S. https://www.slideshare.net/nfgusedautoparts/the-state-of-time-in-openhistoricalmap. 
• 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. https://www.slideshare.net/nfgusedautoparts/2023sotmuslightningpdf. 
• Welty, Richard (June 11, 2023). “OpenHistoricalMap: Doing History”. State of the Map US 2023. OpenStreetMap U.S. https://www.slideshare.net/nfgusedautoparts/doing-history-258369004. 
• Welty, Richard (September 2, 2023). “OpenHistoricalMap: Mapping History in New York”. NYGeoCon 2023. Albany, New York: NYS GIS Association. https://www.slideshare.net/nfgusedautoparts/nygeocon2023pdf. 
• Welty, Richard (June 7, 2024). “Events Come to OpenHistoricalMap”. State of the Map U.S. 2024. Salt Lake City: OpenStreetMap U.S. https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/events-come-to-openhistoricalmap-sotm-us-2024/269575254. 

Blog posts

• Arellano, Juan (July 2, 2021). “Mapping the Tawantinsuyo in OpenHistoricalMap”. Cyberjuan. https://cyberjuan.medium.com/mapping-the-tawantinsuyo-in-openhistoricalmap-c1c9ef156486. 
• Bigelow, Sue (October 1, 2015). “Putting the Goad’s 1912 Plan into Open Historical Map”. AuthentiCity. Vancouver, British Columbia: City of Vancouver Archives. https://www.vancouverarchives.ca/2015/10/01/putting-the-goads-1912-plan-into-open-historical-map/. 
• Kang, E Roon; So, Wonyoung (29 August 2017). “Cheonggyecheon, Dongdaemun Gentrification: Technical Notes”. Seoul Libre Maps. https://medium.com/seoul-libre-maps/cheonggyecheon-dongdaemun-gentrification-technical-notes-375f69e5b2ad. 
• Larsson, Albin (March 26, 2015). “Mapping the Past with Linked Data in OpenHistoricalMap”. Albin Larsson: Blog. https://byabbe.se/2015/03/26/mapping-the-past-with-linked-data-in-openhistoricalmap. Retrieved October 28, 2023. 
• Marler, Gregory (21 July 2014). “Curating a Historical Map”. Living With Dragons. https://www.livingwithdragons.com/2014/07/curating-a-historical-map.  [4]
• SK53 (11 December 2014). “City Stripping: building historical road layouts from todays data”. Maps Matter. https://sk53-osm.blogspot.com/2014/12/city-stripping-building-historical-road.html. 
• SK53 (31 December 2014). “Finding ones way around Buenos Aires in 1870: a proof-of-concept for routing with OpenHistoricalMap data”. Maps Matter. https://sk53-osm.blogspot.com/2014/12/finding-ones-way-around-buenos-aires-in.html. 
• Straub, David (August 3, 2024). “The new OpenHistoricalMap integration in Gramps Web”. Munich: Grampshub. https://www.grampshub.com/blog/en/2024/08/04/openhistoricalmap-in-gramps-web.html. 

Video tutorials

• OSM for History Buffs (October 22, 2021). “Introduction to OpenHistoricalMap - Time Travel Map”. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DspkKGe2kX8. 
• OSM for History Buffs (October 24, 2021). “Mapping Youghal on OpenHistoricalMap”. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwYOzjMb9GQ. 
• OSM for History Buffs (November 16, 2021). “Mapping Youghal Train Station on OpenHistoricalMap”. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYW5yNfwN84. 
• Stéphane, Séverine (February 17, 2023). “Démarrer dans Open Historical Map”. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEbNCuT5Lic. 
• Thelone1986 (July 16, 2023). “Seraing Autrefois (sur OpenHistoricalMap) - Épisode 1 (Présentation et (presque) premiers pas)” (in French). YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo6ZliTW3v8. 

OpenHistoricalMap as a major subject

Presentations

• Grossner, Karl (November 5, 2014). “Focused Themes for Crowd­Sourced Map Digitization” (lightning talk). Moving Historical Geodata to the Web. New York City: New York Public Library. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1x1ecAdiNeXxkKw86Ks9WQwGcTj1z_d5tTvTEMhIXICc/edit#slide=id.g41226ab1b_0168. 
• 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. https://www.slideshare.net/gwhathistory/sotm-us-2013-workshop-lessons-learned-setting-up-the-osm-stack-001. 
• 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. https://www.slideshare.net/frankieroberto/mapp-history-on-open-street-map. 

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. https://biblio.hiu.cas.cz/records/dda61997-5045-4b3f-ab06-f9888bda4043. 
• 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. https://muse.jhu.edu/book/111706. 
• Forster, Mike (2023). “Palo Alto Early Filmmakers”. https://www.knowledgewise.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Palo-Alto-Early-Filmakers-Mike-Forster-v1-Sept-2023.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. https://books.google.com/books?id=TX9BEQAAQBAJ&pg=PA12. 

Academic papers

• Baránek, Daniel (2022). “Transformation of the Jewish Space in Kolín, 1848–1921”. Judaica Bohemiae (Prague: Jewish Museum in Prague) 57 (1): 67. https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1046590. 
• Bast, Hannah; Brosi, Patrick; Kalmbach, Johannes; Lehmann, Axel (October 29, 2024). “Efficient Spatial Joins for Large Sets of Geometric Objects” (preprint). 32nd International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (SIGSPATIAL ’24). New York City: Association for Computing Machinery. https://ad-publications.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/SIGSPATIAL_spatialjoin_BBKL_2024.pdf. 
• 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. https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/slavichp/10/. 
• Le Texier, Marion; Lemoy, Rémi; Rabehi, Walid (2023). SUCHIES Open Urban Database: History and Urban Evolution of French Cities Over Three Centuries. doi:10.34847/nkl.aea7388x. https://nakala.fr/10.34847/nkl.aea7388x#404e5ff04c1ca2b4eba226dac735a6229acdb431.  Research data deposited in OpenHistoricalMap. [5][6]* Litvine, Alexis; El Gouj, Hanae; Meyer, Jeff; Starzec, Arthur; Thévenin, Thomas; Séguy, Isabelle; Mimeur, Christophe; Hare, Doriane et al. (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. https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3557919.3565811. 
• Nguyễn, Minh; Miller, Kirk (April 5, 2024). “Annotation request for Vietnamese apex”. Unicode Consortium. https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2024/24111-vietnamese-apex.annot.pdf. Retrieved December 19, 2024. 
• Zubar, Maxim (March 21, 2025). “Веб-додаток для візуалізації змін кордонів з використанням клієнт-серверної архітектури” (in Ukrainian). [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. Vinnytsia: Vinnytsia National Technical University. https://conferences.vntu.edu.ua/index.php/all-fitki/all-fitki-2025/paper/viewPaper/23974. Retrieved March 28, 2025. 

News articles

• 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]” (in German). Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Zürich. https://www.nzz.ch/meinung/respekt-durch-eine-robuste-partnerschaft-europa-braucht-mit-der-tuerkei-ein-verhaeltnis-auf-augenhoehe-ld.1882753. 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. https://www.grampsweb.org/. 

Websites

• Baránek, Daniel. “Maps of Jewish Settlement, 1857–1930”. https://map.kehillot.eu/. 
• “OldMapsOnline”. Unterägeri: Klokan Technologies. https://www.oldmapsonline.org/en/history/regions.  Prototype limited to Lille. [7][8]
• Plett, Charlie. “The Mennonite Map”. https://themennonitemap.org/. 
• Shade, Jordan (2025). “Doublemap”. https://www.double-map.online/.  [9]
• theRAGEhero. “GlobStory.it”. https://globstory.it/. 
• Welty, Richard. “Ghost Tracks Tests & Examples”. http://www.na-motorsports.com/test/. 
• Wieringa, Hidde. “OpenRailwayMap”. https://openrailwaymap.app/. 

Blog posts

• Warren, Robert (April 7, 2017). “The Geometries of Vimy Ridge, 100 years ago”. The Muninn Project. https://blog.muninn-project.org/node/111. Retrieved February 18, 2023. 

Videos

• Save Standard Time (April 22, 2024). “Evolution of federal time zones in the US (1919–2024) [No Audio]”. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxZXS5XdtU4. Retrieved April 23, 2024. 

See also

• Major sources used in the creation of OpenHistoricalMap