Applications

List of useful digital and spatial history applications

Title	Short description	Creator	Link
Atlas of the Latin Church in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Eighteenth Century	Latin churches, monasteries, convents, ecclesiastical and secular boundaries (more...).	Institute for the Historical Geography of the Church in Poland	https://geo-ecclesiae.kul.pl/apps/latin-church-1772
Religions and Denominations in the (Polish) Crown in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century	Christian churches: Catholic (Greek, Latin and Armenian rites), Orthodox, Protestant (Lutheran, Calvinist, Czech Brethren and Mennonite), Jewish synagogues, Karaite kenesas, Muslim mosques. Boundaries of palatinates and Catholic church administration (Latin and Uniate) around 1772 (more...).	Institute for the Historical Geography of the Church in Poland	https://geo-ecclesiae.kul.pl/apps/confessions-crown-1772/
Territorial structure of the Latin Church before World War II	Roman Catholic churches and ecclesiastical boundaries (metropolises, dioceses, deaneries) circa 1938. (more...).	Institute for the Historical Geography of the Church in Poland	https://geo-ecclesiae.kul.pl/apps/latin-church-1938/
DataAtlasFontium: a repository of historical data	A historical data repository based on GeoNode technology: a web-based platform that allows for the gathering and sharing of spatial data and its metadata, as well as simple visualizations (more...).	Department of Historical Atlas, he Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History Polish Academy of Sciences	https://data.atlasfontium.pl/
Maps of the Past	The "Maps of the Past" app presents calibrated old maps, including topographic maps of the Military Geographical Institute from the interwar period, 19th century Prussian and German maps, or old city plans. Plans are underway to add other cartographic editions to the service and application (more...).	Department of Historical Atlas, he Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History Polish Academy of Sciences	https://atlas.ihpan.edu.pl/pastmaps/
World Historical Gazetteer	The World Historical Gazetteer (WHG) contains data and services that enable historians to conduct spatial and temporal analysis and visualization, for example, it allows for the reconciliation of geographic-historical data (more...).	World History Center, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh	https://whgazetteer.org/search/#
gazetteers.net	The application allows searching for and comparing information from several historical databases of localities in present-day Germany and Poland. It supports the identification and aggregation of locations included in different data sets (more...).	Herder Institute; Institute for Regional Geography; Justus Liebig University Giessen	https://www.gazetteers.net/app/#/
The Historic Gazetteer	The application was originally created to identify localities in genealogical and historical research. It contains structures and locations, the history of their affiliation with state and church administrative units and the information on resources (more...).	Verein für Computergenealogie e.V. (CompGen)	http://www.gov.genealogy.net/search/index