New Life For Old Maps

Links and resources for workshop presented at LIDA 2025, Dubrovnik, Croatia

Presentation Slides

All maps used in presentation Media Group
San Francisco Maps in Georeference Compare grid
Historical GIS Paper: Cillis, G., Statuto, D., & Picuno, P. (2021). Historical GIS as a Tool for Monitoring, Preserving and Planning Forest Landscape: A Case Study in a Mediterranean Region. Land, 10(8), 851. https://doi.org/10.3390/land10080851
David Rumsey’s personal website, DavidRumsey.com
Library of Congress Maps collection
Europeana - All IIIF enabled items
Europeana Maps and Geography theme
Mystic Seaport Museum shipping manifest
Historic Maps of San Francisco Felt map
Allmaps Editor
Form to request access to Felt Web Mapping Workspace
Link to Felt Web Mapping Workspace. Workspace will be active until July 31, 2025.
Felt for Education. Information on educational access to Felt.com web mapping tools.

Georeferencing with Allmaps for Felt tutorial; the precursor to this workshop/demo
David Medeiros’s Georeferencing in QGIS
Evan Thornberry’s Overlaying the Past tutorial for making web maps with MapBox and Github

About IIIF
IIIF Maps Community Group
Allmaps.org
Other Browser-based map warpers: Mapwarper.net and Old Maps Online’s Georeferencer
W3 Schools: What is JSON?
Larsen, K., Thorneberry, T., Vitale, V. (2025) Teaching and Learning with Text on Maps: A David Rumsey Collection Case Study https://doi.org/10.1080/03085694.2024.2453335. Imago Mundi, 76(2), 290-296. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085694.2024.2453335