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Overview

You can display your own maps against a real map (OpenStreetMap) for free, and make them available on the Web for anyone in the world. Maps such as handwritten or old ones can be used as well as modern standardized ones.

Uploaded maps are rectified (warped) against a real map by adding control points, which specify geographical positions.

Once published, these maps are available to export in image or map formats.

このサイトでは、自由に地図画像をアップすることができます。その中には、既にインターネット公開されているものも含め日本の古地図が含まれます。その多くは、発行当時の資料をそのままの形でデジタル化されたものです。現代においては適切ではないと思われる表現を含む資料がある可能性もありますが、その資料が成立した時代を表す歴史的資料として、ご理解・ご留意の上でご利用くださいますようお願いいたします。

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About Map Warper

This tool is a Japanese instance of Map Warper, an open source georeferencing application. Map Warper is developed by Tim Waters, who is a geospatial developer and consultant, in response to the promotion of digital publishing of maps in Western countries and the increasing need for georeferncing software. We localize it and provide this Japanese version of Map Warper here, to promote free web-based georeferencing tools in Japan, supported by JSPS KAKENHI (16H01965, 17H06186).

Contact

Keiji Yano
Geography Department
Ritsumeikan University
(yano@lt.ritsumei.ac.jp）

News

3D time enabled historical streetscapes re.city Kartta Labs with Google Research
Kartta Labs and re.city was a really cool Google Research project that I was involved in a few years ago. It enabled users to view, interact and contribute to historical... read more

Mapwarper.net emails improved
The Mapwarper.net server should be sending emails with the correct internals set up so they are less likely to end up in your spam inboxes now! For many weeks users... read more

Internationalization (i18n) and Translations for Mapwarper. (English, Dutch, Japanese)
Many thanks to Ellen Gehring of Erfgoed Leiden en Omstreken for the Dutch translations. Ellen with the ELO wanted their own warper and because of this, support for locales, internationalisation and... read more

Last Rectified Maps

Title	Last Updated	Status
『只見』五万分一地形圖 Image from the Map Collections courtesy Stanford University Libraries, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License. © Stanford University. 【図幅名】只見【測量時期】大正3年測図/昭和6年要部修正【発行時期】昭和8年11月発行【記号】新潟12号（共16面）【測量機関】大日本帝国陸地測量部【備考】 View Map \| Rectify Map \| Download KML Links: Source / Biblio Ref	6 days ago	4 control points
『柏崎』五万分一地形圖 Image from the Map Collections courtesy Stanford University Libraries, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License. © Stanford University. 【図幅名】柏崎【測量時期】明治44年測図/昭和6年修正【発行時期】昭和9年4月発行【記号】長岡8号（共11面）【測量機関】大日本帝国陸地測量部【備考】 View Map \| Rectify Map \| Download KML Links: Source / Biblio Ref	6 days ago	4 control points
『長岡』五万分一地形圖 Image from the Map Collections courtesy Stanford University Libraries, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License. © Stanford University. 【図幅名】長岡【測量時期】明治44年測図/昭和6年修正【発行時期】【記号】長岡4号（共11面）【測量機関】参謀本部【備考】秘 View Map \| Rectify Map \| Download KML Links: Source / Biblio Ref	6 days ago	4 control points

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