Mapping with AI

Jan van der Straet (Stradanus), Impressio Librorum, from Nova Reperta, engraved by Joannes Galle. Museum Plantin-Moretus, public domain.

Coming soon. The exercises, prompts and materials for this session will be posted here once it meets on November 11.

Wednesday, November 11, 2026 — 12:00–12:50 In 4 weeks

Mapping with AI

Presented by Fred Gibbs

History Commons (MVH 1104)

Use AI to build three kinds of maps, from a quick pin map of your notes to archival data drawn over a historic map, and check where it puts each place.

  • Organize research on a web mapTurn a list of places from your notes into an interactive map, with each pin linking to your sources and observations.
  • Map an archive's place dataHave AI pull place names from archival records into a spreadsheet, check its coordinates, and build a map interface for browsing them.
  • Layer data on historic mapsFit a scanned historic map to real coordinates and draw routes and sites over it to compare the map's world with ours.

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