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Welcome to the Maplat Wiki. This is the long-form reading area for the project — tutorials, concept articles, FAQ, and gallery live here.

Maplat is a Historical Map / Illustrated Map Viewer that can transform each map's coordinates with a nonlinear but homeomorphic projection, letting historical maps collaborate with GPS and accurate modern maps without distorting the original images. It was selected for ICC Tokyo 2019 and presented at FOSS4G Tokyo 2017, and won the Grand Prize / Educational Effectiveness Prize / Visitors Selection Prize at the 2018 Geo-Activity Contest held by Japan's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.

For the latest install steps, version info, badges, and license, please see the README first. This Wiki holds the release-independent material that grows between releases (ADR-0012).

Wiki Index

• Home — this page
• Tutorials — step-by-step guides
• Concepts — background, theory (TIN, homeomorphic transform, GPS integration)
• API Reference — concepts and usage patterns for the MaplatUi API
• FAQ — frequently asked questions
• Gallery — case studies, screenshots, historical demos

日本語版はこちら / Read this page in Japanese

Looking for install / version info? See the README.

Related Repositories

Maplat is part of the Maplat ecosystem by Code for History.

Sister repositories:

Repository	Description
MaplatCore	Core logic (coordinate transform, tile handling)
MaplatTin	TIN-based bijective coordinate transform library (@maplat/tin)
MaplatTransform	Preprocessing transform tools
MaplatEditor	Desktop data editor for creating Maplat map and app data

Ecosystem Map: currently not published externally. See the README §Related section for the full picture. Product site: maplat.jp · Corporate: Nayuta, Inc.

Sponsors

Maplat is supported by:

• JetBrains
• Locazing
• TheDesignium
• BrowserStack
• Zender
• Webimpact

See the README for the up-to-date sponsor list and how to become a sponsor or backer.