Palestine Open Maps
An open platform layering historical maps of Palestine — including detailed 1940s British Mandate survey sheets — with present-day maps, documenting hundreds of villages depopulated in 1948.
Palestine Open Maps is an open online platform that layers historical maps of Palestine — including detailed British Mandate-era survey sheets from the 1940s — over present-day maps and data. Users can explore more than 2,000 places past and present, download hundreds of historical map sheets, and view the sites of villages depopulated or destroyed during the Nakba of 1948.
Built as an open project for researchers, educators, and displaced communities themselves, the platform makes a body of cartographic evidence — much of it previously accessible only in archives — searchable and freely available.
Why it matters
- Documents the geography of the Nakba village by village, in a freely accessible form.
- Pairs historical survey maps with modern data, allowing past and present to be viewed side by side.
- A tool for memory, education, and research into Palestinian displacement and return.
Key resources
Cited work
The summary above is written by FALASTEEN.AI. The document itself is published by Palestine Open Maps and is linked here in full.