Terrastories: Connecting Generations

A free and open-source application designed for communities to map, protect, and share place-based stories

Terrastories is a geostorytelling application built to enable Indigenous and other local communities to locate and map their own oral storytelling traditions about places of significant meaning or value to them.

Community members can add places and stories through a user-friendly interface, and make decisions about designating certain stories as private or restricted. Terrastories works both online and offline, so that remote communities can access the application entirely without needing internet connectivity.

Terrastories is entirely free and open-source, built with principles of offline-first and data sovereignty, and aligned with the following two UN Sustainable Development Goals:

UN Sustainable Development Goal 4: Quality Education

UN Sustainable Development Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

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Jun 1, 2026

Audiovisual and georeferenced records strengthen territorial monitoring in Tumucumaque Leste

From May 20–24, 2026, Wayana, Aparai, Tiriyó, Akuriyó, and Katxuyana youth gathered in Matawaré village in the eastern Tumucumaque and Paru D'Este Indigenous Territories for an audiovisual and georeferenced recording workshop. Working with Iepé and Awana Digital, the youth updated a shared CoMapeo database of points of interest and began building a community-led historical record of the Zehpo Eny ("cave of bones"), with results soon to be published in Terrastories.

Dec 9, 2023

Terrastories mentioned in Cloud-Native Geospatial Foundation blog post

“Being free from the constraints of a typical tech company means Protomaps is a better fit for applications underserved by the traditional software industry. Journalism and the public sector are two areas that have adopted PMTiles. Other use cases I’ve learned about in the past month include wildfire mapping in British Columbia and a storytelling app for indigenous communities.”

Oct 25, 2023

Mapping Territory and Cultural Heritage in the Tumucumaque and Paru D’Leste Indigenous Territories, Brasil

Awana Digital and Iepé recently collaborated on a series of intensive workshops aimed to support the Indigenous communities of the Tumucumaque and Paru D’Leste Indigenous Territories in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, neighboring Suriname.

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