ABOUT HYPERCITIES

HyperCities is a city made thick with time, maps, voices, and possible futures.

HyperCities brings HyperCities: Thick Mapping in the Digital Humanities, the historical Map Library, and a source-grounded Hyperbook into one spatial experience. It is neither a conventional academic site nor a recreation of the original GIS platform.

MAP

A dark world field holds the real extents of historical maps; GROUND can reveal the satellite present beneath them.

TIMEWELL

Choose a place to drill a temporal CORE: each map stays geographically proportioned while its date rises or descends through the well.

HYPERBOOK

Maps and actions may evoke exact book passages, concepts, people, events, and source pages—with provenance retained.

TAKE A MAP

A selected layer can travel outward as a live MapLibre example, a Google Earth Network Link, or a QGIS XYZ source.

ANNOTATE

Choose a selected map’s annotate mark, place a point on the raster, and leave a public note. Existing notes remain tied to their original layer and coordinate.

A small grammar

Pan and zoom the field. Click or tap to core a place. Move up or down through time. Read the book fragment that enters. Take the named STRAY route when you want a source-grounded lateral turn; TRACE keeps the residue of that dérive. On touch screens, the floating arrows mirror these movements.

The site remains a simple GitHub Pages build: static files, MapLibre, deck.gl, and no backend.