This document discusses Wikimaps, a proposed project to compile historical maps from around the world on Wikimedia platforms. Wikimaps would work with archives to make high-resolution digital copies of maps openly licensed. Volunteers could then contextualize, georeference, and annotate maps, connecting them to Wikipedia. This would create an open database of historical geospatial data that could be used in new mapping applications and research. The document outlines how tools could be developed to help upload maps, add location data, collaboratively vectorize maps, and integrate maps with Wikidata.

1. WIKIMAPS
or
How to put together the bits and pieces that Wikimedia already has, to deal with
the historical maps of the world
Susanna Ånäs, Wikimedia Suomi, ISCEM 2013, Helsinki, 29.7.2013
susanna.anas@wikimedia.fi, @susannaanas, @WMFinland
Map: Address and travel map of Helsinki 1879, C. H. Nummelin Helsinki Region Infoshare License: http://www.hri.fi/lisenssit/hri-nimea/

2. What can
Wikimaps do?

3. Work with archives to
open up maps from all
over the world

4. allowing usage of hi-res
digital copies of maps for
any purpose.

5. Connect maps with the
world's largest
encyclopedia.

6. Allow volunteers to work
with the maps

7. contextualizing,
georeferencing and
tracing

8. creating a knowledge
base of historical
geodata

9. for new, unimaginable
map applications.

11. GLAM Wikimedia
Commons

12. GLAMtool
Upload
GLAM Wikimedia
Commons

13. GLAMtool
Upload
GLAM Wikimedia
Commons
Wikimaps

14. Georeferencing
GLAMtool
Upload
GLAM Wikimedia
Commons
Wikimaps

15. Georeferencing
GLAMtool
Upload
GLAM Wikimedia
Commons
Wikimaps

16. Annotating
vectorizing
Georeferencing
GLAMtool
Upload
GLAM Wikimedia
Commons
Annotating
vectorizing
Wikimaps

17. Annotating
vectorizing
Georeferencing
GLAMtool
Upload
Wikidata
Structured
data
GLAM Wikimedia
Commons
Annotating
vectorizing
Wikimaps
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18. Annotating
vectorizing
Georeferencing
GLAMtool
Upload
Wikidata
Structured
data
GLAM Wikimedia
Commons
Annotating
vectorizing
Wikimaps
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StructuredCooperation
OpenStreetMap
Historic

19. Annotating
vectorizing
Georeferencing
GLAMtool
Upload
GeoreferencingGeoreferencing
Embed
in Wikipedia
Wikidata
Structured
data
GLAM Wikimedia
Commons
Annotating
vectorizing
Wikimaps
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StructuredCooperation
OpenStreetMap
Historic
ヘルシンキ

20. Annotating
vectorizing
Georeferencing
GLAMtool
Upload
GeoreferencingGeoreferencing
Embed
in Wikipedia
Wikidata
Structured
data
GLAM Wikimedia
Commons
Annotating
vectorizing
Wikimaps
Export
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StructuredCooperation
OpenStreetMap
Historic
ヘルシンキ

21. Annotating
vectorizing
Georeferencing
GLAMtool
Upload
GeoreferencingGeoreferencing
Embed
in Wikipedia
Wikidata
Structured
data
GLAM Wikimedia
Commons
Enriched
map
Annotating
vectorizing
Wikimaps
Export
ヘルシンキ
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StructuredCooperation
OpenStreetMap
Historic
ヘルシンキ

23. Map mass upload
tools for institutions

24. Map mass upload
tools for institutions
Adding geolocation
to maps in Commons

25. Map mass upload
tools for institutions
Adding geolocation
to maps in Commons
Web mapping
service in Wikimedia

26. Map mass upload
tools for institutions
Adding geolocation
to maps in Commons
Web mapping
service in Wikimedia
Collaboratively
vectorizing old maps

27. Map mass upload
tools for institutions
Adding geolocation
to maps in Commons
Web mapping
service in Wikimedia
Collaboratively
vectorizing old maps
Spatiotemporal
gazetteer in Wikidata

28. Map mass upload
tools for institutions
Adding geolocation
to maps in Commons
Web mapping
service in Wikimedia
Collaboratively
vectorizing old maps
Spatiotemporal
gazetteer in Wikidata
Map mashup tools in
Wikimedia

30. Galleries
Libraries
Archives
Museums
Developers
Experts
Developers
Designers
Archives
Open
Historical
Map
Facebook group
Wikimaps
Developers
Wikimedia
Commons
Wikimaps
Facebook group
Wikimaps
Wikidata
Wikimedia
Commons
Wikipedia
chapters,
GLAM
advocates,
mappers
advocates,
Linked Open
Data
Commons
Wikimaps
Commons
Linked Open
Local,
regional and
international
partners
DesignersCommons
Wikimaps
Communities

31. THANK YOU!

32. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikimaps
http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikiprojekti_Historialliset_kartat
https://www.facebook.com/groups/wikimaps/
Susanna Ånäs, Wikimedia Suomi
susanna.anas@wikimedia.fi, @susannaanas, @WMFinland