An open-data platform for house history. Search and contribute the history of buildings — who lived there, who owned it, how addresses changed over time. Data is stored in Wikidata; building shapes come from OpenHistoricalMap.
A CompGen project. Early stage.
npm install
npm run dev # landing at localhost:5173/, map at localhost:5173/map/
npm run build # → dist/index.html (landing) + dist/map/ (app)
npm run preview # preview the build at localhost:4173/The client-side building type filter (src/services/building-types.ts) is a static snapshot of all Wikidata types that are subclasses of Q41176 (building). Regenerate it after relevant Wikidata changes:
python3 scripts/update-building-types.py| UI | Lit 3 + TypeScript |
| Map | MapLibre GL JS + OpenFreeMap |
| Data | Wikidata SPARQL + OpenHistoricalMap |
| Build | Vite 6 |