Map Making
How to Create a Community Heritage Map Together
To create a community heritage map, form a group with strong local relationships, define one focused question, agree on consent and access rules, collect.
Map Making
Every map begins with choices: purpose, boundary, evidence, symbols, and audience. These guides make those choices visible so a community can revise them rather than inherit them by accident. The tools range from paper workshops to desktop GIS. Technical polish matters, but a perfectly aligned map can still tell a crooked story if its sources and omissions stay hidden.
Map Making
How to Georeference a Historical Map in QGIS
To georeference a historical map in QGIS, load a reliable modern reference layer, open the scan in Georeferencer, and add well-distributed ground control.