The complete and definitive version of this page will be published late May / early June 2015.
This website gives you a strong overview of the numerous opportunities offered by QGIS. The following websites will be crucial in order to take your projects further.
INSPIRING WEBSITES
This excellent website offers many tutorials related to Digital Humanities for historians and has inspired us throughout the making of this website. It has a section on mapping and QGIS and we strongly recommend you fully explore their website to discover the potential offered by Digital Humanities.
General introductions and more advanced tutorials on QGIS.
A great portal dedicated to GIS: find data, tips, and extra software.
If you have finally adopted GIS, why not celebrate GIS Day on 18th November 2015?
An impressive ‘GIS data depot’ with data, tips, and documentation
A large collection of data and maps, sponsored and approved by major organisations
DIGITAL HUMANITIES
- Mapping the Nation: a companion site to Susan Schulten’s Mapping the Nation (The University of Chicago Press, 2012). Is this what our research could look like in the near future?
- Mapping the Republic of Letters: often seen as a reference in terms of digital and dynamic mapping and in the wider field of Digital Humanities
FIND LAYERS
- Natural Earth Data: the reference for natural, cultural, and raster base layers
- Harvard WorldMap: an impressive collection of maps and downloadable shapefiles for many parts of the globe
- USGS: governmental website for data and shapefiles on the United States
- NHGIS: shapefiles and data for the United States (University of Minnesota)
- data.gov.uk: governmental website for data and shapefiles on the United Kingdom
- Vision of Britain: shapefiles and data for the United Kingdom
- Scottish Government Spatial Data
- Historic Scotland: data for Scotland
- China Historical GIS
- IGN Données: access numerous databases and shapefiles on France
FIND MAPS
- David Rumsey Collections: an impressive database of fully scanned maps.
- Old Maps Online: find digitised maps according to location and period
- NLS Maps: a database for maps of Scotland, Britain, and beyond.
SOFTWARE
- QGIS: everything you need to know about the website we are using here is in this website.
- Inkscape: to make your maps even prettier after exporting them
- Notepad++ (PC) or TextWrangler (iOS): optimal ways to create your CSV lists or to code in general