Japanese Map Warper

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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

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Last Rectified Maps

Map Title Year Last Updated Status
Bl 01 0044 jgavkipc
shelfmark: Maps 63140.15 License: Public Domain 明治9 *多色刷り。銅板。 Xylograph. Beans 40.
1876 19 days ago 18 control points
Img20260523 21001264.pdf png
2026 29 days ago Unrectified
%e7%a6%8f%e5%b1%b1%e5%b8%82%e7%a5%9e%e8%be%ba%e7%94%ba%e9%81%ba%e8%b7%a1%e5%9c%b0%e5%9b%b3%ef%bc%88%ef%bc%a1%ef%bc%94%ef%bc%89.pdf
2026 29 days ago Unrectified
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