Harvard WorldMap is an online, open source mapping platform developed to lower barriers for scholars who wish to explore, visualize, edit, and publish geospatial information. The system attempts to address the gap between desktop GIS which is generally light on collaboration, and web-based mapping systems which often don't support the inclusion of large datasets.
WorldMap allows anyone to:
- Upload layers overlay them with thousands of other layers
- Create and edit maps and link map features to media content
- Publish data to the world or to just a few collaborators
- Export data to standard interoperable formats
- Make use of online cartographic tools for symbolizing layers
- Georeference paper maps online using the Map Warper Tool
New geodata discovery capabilities are being developed, and the platform is being migrating to the latest version of GeoNode. Please accept our apologies for any problems you encounter during this period. Write us at email@example.com and tell us know what works and what doesn't.
Some current initiatives:
- Development of improvements to map layer search funded by National Endowment for the Humanities
- Integration between WorldMap and Dataverse funded by Boston Area Research Initiative
- Development of big spatio-temporal visualization capabilities funded by the Sloan Foundation
- Migration of WorldMap to latest version of GeoNode