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Get started
by Viewing a Map or Creating a Map.
WorldMap ALPHA is an experimental platform
designed for viewing and interpreting maps collaboratively. Today maps come from many sources and take
many forms, from paper atlases to digital satellite images to census files. WorldMap aims to
pull these and other hard-to-find maps together and make
them available to researchers to explore, share, annotate, and remix.
WorldMap combines modeling capabilities of Geographic
Information Systems (GIS) with current web technologies, and is made available
as Open Source
software. Use the hosted version of WorldMap here or download and run the application on your own server. WorldMap stands on
the shoulders of other Open Source projects including AfricaMap,
GeoNode, OpenLayers, PostGIS, and GEOS. WorldMap is licensed under Version 3 of the GNU
General Public License (GPL).
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