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Open Historical Map/Projects

There are a variety of projects being done in Open Historical Map. Each project should get its own page under this one, where the project is described and detailed notes provided.


OHM Projects

Infrastructure

Projects that focus on building out the OHM infrastructure.

Diversity

Projects that focus on the minority/ethnic/gender/racial past.

Global

The following projects are distributed widely and not necessarily associated with standard geographic areas.

  • Highways - Historic Highway Routes
  • Waterways - Historic Waterways
  • Ghost Tracks - Historic Motorsports Venues.
  • Open Gravestones - A project to provide open burial data built on open standards
  • Railway - Railroads/railways of the world.
  • Stadiums - Stadiums and sports venues that are no longer with us
  • World's Fairs - historical World's Fair Venues

Area Focused

Africa

Asia

China

Hong Kong

Korea

Israel

Philippines

  • Metro Manila - Development of Metropolitan Manila
  • Baguio - Development of the City of Baguio

South Vietnam

Europe

  • Muninn WW1 - WW1 Trench Geometries / Artillery emplacements.

Romans

Czech Republic

Estonia

  • Tartu - City from 1880-1960 based on snapshots from historical maps

Finland

  • Helsinki 1907 - Transport routing at 1900
  • Helsinki - City plan 1820

France

  • Rennes - City of Rennes, France

Germany

Netherlands

Serbia

Switzerland

Sweden

Ukraine

  • Kyiv 1800 - 2000 - Kiev/Kyiv development of the urban morphology of the center of the capital of Ukraine.

United Kingdom

  • Derby - mapping the development of Derby
  • London - mapping the development of London
  • Scottish Boundaries - historical administrative units of Scotland
  • Snow's Map - Soho at time of John Snow's Cholera work
  • Trumpington - The architectural history of Trumpington. route

North America

Canada

  • Toronto - Development of Toronto and surroundings from the early 19th C to the present

Mexico

  • TBD

United States of America

  • Oregon Trail - to trace the route or routes of the migration west known as the Oregon Trail
  • Railway - Railroads of North America
  • Route 66 - to trace the route or routes of the transcontinental highway known as Route 66.
  • US Post Offices - potential import of the Blevins-Helbock Historic Post Office Database
  • US Forest Service -From the first Forest Reserves designated in 1891 through the designation as National Forests in 1905, as well as special projects such as the Civilian Conservation Corps, Experiment Forests and Ranges, Wilderness and other notable historical aspects.


Arkansas
  • Pulaski Heights A 20th Century Streetcar Suburb in Little Rock, 1888 - 1962
California
Maryland
  • Baltimore
Massachusetts
  • Evolution of Boston Bay shoreline since colonization
Michigan
  • Michigan - Places, roads, administrative boundaries of the state of Michigan, including development of Detroit and environs from the early 19th C to the present
Nevada
  • Burning Man - 2008 and 2009 maps of Burning Man festival from OSM
New Hampshire
  • New Hampshire - Mapping roads and buildings of the state of New Hampshire, from 1892 to today
New York
Ohio
Oklahoma
  • Oklahoma State Highway Maps
Virginia
Washington
Wisconsin
  • Wisconsin - Mapping roads, places, and administrative boundaries of the state of Wisconsin

Oceania

Australia

Pacific

South America

  • Buenos Aires - Development of city in late 19th C, early 20th C. Initial city stripping prototype.

As yet unsorted

  • Linked Data - Linked data show/use case and tagging proposal from OpenHistoricalMap.

Proposed

Potential

No one is working on these (yet). If you're not sure what you want to do in OHM, consider them.

Users

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