Alternate Title
Category
Maps and GIS
Institution
University of Pittsburgh
Access
open access
URL
https://whgazetteer.org
Description
World Historical Gazetteer (WHG) is an open-source platform for linking historical place records, now at version 3.2 and hosted by the Institute for Spatial History Innovation (ISHI) at the University of Pittsburgh. The platform provides a searchable index of over 2.2 million historical places drawn from 70+ published datasets, and a reconciliation index of 13 million records from GeoNames and Wikidata for linking new place data. WHG enables users to discover and link historical places through a web interface and API, build and publish gazetteer datasets using reconciliation tools, create place and dataset collections, and develop instructional lesson plans for historical geography teaching. The platform uses Linked Places Format (LPF) with temporal extensions to GeoJSON, supporting the linked open data ecosystem for historical research.
Source List
ACLS Open Database Resource Guide
Tags
Archaeology Dataset Digital humanities Local history
Last Modified
5/13/2026 9:36pm