Hi. I'm a total GIS novice, so please answer as if speaking to a small child, or a golden retriever.

I have a 36 page document about the experience of one regiment in the Korean war. Many of the entries include coordinates, albeit in the outdated US military "Tokyo" coordinate system. Ideally I would like to make a map that has a pin at each of those coordinates, and links back to the relevant section of the text when the pin is clicked.

I'm guessing that the best approach is to scan the document and use OCR to extract the text, and then write some sort of script to extract the coordinates and convert them to a latitude-longitude system. If I created a spreadsheet with that info could I make my desired map with QGIS?

I've never written a script like that or really used QGIS, so any details about what software I'd need would be appreciated. I have a macbook. At only 36 pages perhaps it would be easier to just do this all "manually", copying and pasting each section I need.

How could I go about sharing the map? Would I have to host my own website?

Ideally I'd like to do this without spending any money. Thanks!

"Roman Letters grows out of a simple observation in Patrick Wyman's 2016 USC dissertation, Letters, Mobility, and the Fall of the Roman Empire: the late Roman world left behind an extraordinary volume of surviving correspondence. Senators, bishops, monks, and imperial officials all relied on letters to maintain relationships across vast distances, and many of those letters still exist, scattered across digital archives and critical editions.

This project collects that scattered corpus into a single, structured database and provides tools for exploring the communication networks it reveals.

The dataset

The database currently contains:

8,112 Letters

60 Collections

1,888 People identified

4,464 First English translations

5,751 With distance data

6,914 Topic-tagged

460 Carrier mentions

92 Author bios

Letters span from roughly 97 to 800 AD, covering the transition from the unified Roman Empire to the early medieval kingdoms of western Europe. Major collections include the letters of Augustine, Gregory the Great, Symmachus, Basil of Caesarea, Jerome, Cassiodorus, and Sidonius Apollinaris, among others."

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What would it take to turn 36 pages of text into an interactive map? And how could I share it for free?

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Roman Letters: 8,112 letters from the late Roman world, the largest collection ever assembled in English. Searchable by author, network, and location. Includes an impressive mapping function.

The dataset