# Place Memory Atlas

> Place Memory Atlas is an independent guide to mapping local history, living memory, and community heritage. It helps neighborhood groups, students, archivists, and curious residents make useful maps while treating consent, uncertainty, and cultural authority as part of the cartography.

Place Memory Atlas publishes original, long-form guides about local heritage & mapping. Every article opens with a concise direct answer, is structured with clear headings and FAQs, and reflects mainstream expert consensus.

## Care & Stewardship

- [Ethical Cultural Heritage Mapping: A Community-First Guide](https://communityheritagemaps.com/ethical-cultural-heritage-mapping/): Ethical cultural heritage mapping gives relevant communities meaningful authority over a project's purpose, collection, interpretation, access, benefits,…

## Map Making

- [How to Create a Community Heritage Map Together](https://communityheritagemaps.com/how-to-create-community-heritage-map/): To create a community heritage map, form a group with strong local relationships, define one focused question, agree on consent and access rules, collect…
- [How to Georeference a Historical Map in QGIS](https://communityheritagemaps.com/how-to-georeference-historical-map/): To georeference a historical map in QGIS, load a reliable modern reference layer, open the scan in Georeferencer, and add well-distributed ground control…

## Living Stories

- [Oral History Mapping: From Interview to Place-Based Story](https://communityheritagemaps.com/oral-history-mapping/): Oral history mapping connects recorded interviews to places, routes, or landscapes meaningful to a narrator's account.

## Full text for LLMs

- [llms-full.txt](https://communityheritagemaps.com/llms-full.txt): every article as plain markdown in one file
- Each article is also available as markdown at https://communityheritagemaps.com/<slug>.md

## Site

- [About](https://communityheritagemaps.com/about/): editorial approach and standards
- [All articles](https://communityheritagemaps.com/all/)
- [Contact](https://communityheritagemaps.com/contact/)