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Overview

Find maps and other imagery, upload, and rectify against a real map.

You can then download and use the rectified map in your mapping applications.

Just sign up and you can start uploading and get warping!

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What is it?

It's a free to use, open source map warper / map georectifier, and image georeferencer tool for individuals and small groups. Developed, hosted and maintained by Tim Waters. If you like this project, please consider donating to keep the project going.

Mail me at tim@geothings.net for more information!

News

Mapwarper.net emails improved
The Mapwarper.net server should be sending emails with the correct internals set up so they are less likely to end up in your spam inboxes now! For many weeks users... read more

Internationalization (i18n) and Translations for Mapwarper. (English, Dutch, Japanese)
Many thanks to Ellen Gehring of Erfgoed Leiden en Omstreken for the Dutch translations. Ellen with the ELO wanted their own warper and because of this, support for locales, internationalisation and... read more

New shortcuts and add layer features in mapwarper.net
Mapwarper.net has been updated with several months of the latest code. Some of these features are directed towards the rectify map interface with the addition of keyboard shortcuts and the... read more

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Last Rectified Maps

Map Title Year Last Updated Status
Jonathan Schroeder, David Van Riper, Steven Manson, Grace Cooper, Zachary Krause, Tracy Kugler, Tsu Zhu, and Steven Ruggles. IPUMS National Historical Geographic Information System: Version 21.0 dataset. Minneapolis, MN: IPUMS. 2026. & TIGER/Lines Shapefiles & QGIS 4.2.2
2020 about 9 hours ago 18 control points
Jonathan Schroeder, David Van Riper, Steven Manson, Grace Cooper, Zachary Krause, Tracy Kugler, Tsu Zhu, and Steven Ruggles. IPUMS National Historical Geographic Information System: Version 21.0 dataset. Minneapolis, MN: IPUMS. 2026. & TIGER/Lines Shapefiles & QGIS
1990 about 10 hours ago 18 control points
Jonathan Schroeder, David Van Riper, Steven Manson, Grace Cooper, Zachary Krause, Tracy Kugler, Tsu Zhu, and Steven Ruggles. IPUMS National Historical Geographic Information System: Version 21.0 dataset. Minneapolis, MN: IPUMS. 2026. & TIGER/Line Shapefiles & QGIS 4.2.2
1980 about 10 hours ago 18 control points
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Recent Mosaics

Mosaic Title Year Last Updated Number of Maps Percentage Complete
1930 Census Tracts
Compiled by JoAnn Morse. Download KML
1930 1 day ago 1 map 100%
(1 map)
1940 Census Tracts
Compiled by JoAnn Morse. Download KML
1940 1 day ago 1 map 100%
(1 map)
TestCensusTracts
Compiled by JoAnn Morse. Download KML
4 days ago 1 map 100%
(1 map)
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