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Funded by Arcadia & based at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge, the project now provides open access to georeferenced historic Survey of India maps.
đź”— Read more about the recent additions, including how to access records with historic map data: https://bit.ly/MAHSA-blog-mar26
The MAHSA project is excited to announce an open access search portal for historic Survey of India (SoI) maps. In collaboration with the University Library and British Library, anyone can now enjoy 480 historic map sheets, as well as the geospatial data for 1245 maps from South Asia.
🌏Who is Using Arches?
The MAHSA project is using Arches to identify & document archaeological heritage sites across India and Pakistan that may be endangered due to erosion, large-scale development, looting, and extensive irrigation agriculture.
Learn more at: https://mahsa.arch.cam.ac.uk
▶️ Video recordings of the “Intro to Arches” workshop delivered at the #CAAUK2025 conference in Cambridge, UK on Dec 9, 2025 are now available!
Get started with a beginner’s technical overview to setting up an Arches instance, presented by Jack Tomaney (University of Cambridge):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_6QPVm4B6k
📢 Reminder! The Arches UK Interest Group will meet this Thurs, March 26, 12–1 PM GMT with presentations on debugging the Arches command-line interface and the Arches QGIS plugin.
More details and Zoom link on the Arches Project Community Forum: bit.ly/uk-interest-group-mar26
Arches Project consultant Mike Heyworth will be at the table at regular intervals—come say hello!
Register for CAA by March 25: https://2026.caaconference.org/
