DL David Lovelace Archive Herefordshire landscape history

Talks & presentations

Conference outlines, speaker notes, and presentation materials sharing open-source methodology, raster data pipelines, and browser-first archive infrastructure.

FOSS4G UK 2026 · Leeds, UK

FOSS for Landscape History: from georectifying ancient maps to sharing the results

The David Lovelace Archive — Herefordshire, 2TB, one lifetime of fieldwork

A case study on turning a ~2TB archive of un-digitised maps, aerial photographs, and ecological surveys into a searchable, web-native public resource using FOSS tools (QGIS, MapLibre, PMTiles, DuckDB-WASM) and static hosting at £0/month compute cost.

QGISPMTilesDuckDB-WASMMapLibre GLStatic Archives
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