home garden / gis

https://programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/mapping-with-python-leaflet

• programming historian hosts all sorts of coding tutorials. the whole site is geared toward humanities scholars who want to build tools, visualizations, or other digital products to showcase or enhance their work. I don’t think you need any prior GIS knowledge to get going on this.

https://leafletjs.com/index.html

• leaflet is a dope mapping library. R has a wrapper for it which I where I used it most. I found it very intuitive and well supported.

https://rstudio.github.io/leaflet/

• more R specific for people that love R like me

https://www.qgis.org/en/site/about/index.html

• free GIS software for the hardcore mapping nerds. Maps are the best. Pretty good documentation and lots of walkthroughs exist out there. I needed to do an intersect for work and didn’t have an ArcGIS license. I downloaded QGIS for the first time ever and got what I needed within a day.

https://osmapp.org/en#7.00/39.2891/-76.5583

• somebody made an open source mapping apps a la google maps. I don’t think a navigation component is available yet but I believe it is in the works. I’ll update when available.

https://www.oldmapsonline.org/en/history/regions#position=4/38.98/-77&year=1850

• site lets you zoom in on any location in the world and see how the area has changed over the years. goes back at least a couple centuries for a lot of areas