Mapping indigenous oral histories: The project to develop this application was initiated the Amazon Conservation Team (ACT), an organization which partners with indigenous and other traditional communities in the Amazon rainforest to help them protect their ancestral lands and maintain their traditional culture. In 2017, ACT realized the need to develop a custom interactive mapping application designed for mapping and safeguarding the intangible cultural heritage expressed in indigenous place-based oral histories, which are at risk of disappearing. Through Mapbox's Community Team, we were acquainted with Ruby for Good, a volunteer developer community, who got started building Terrastories. The first version of the application was built at Ruby for Good 2018 for a Surinamese community called the Matawai, and since then, dozens of communities across the world have used the application for their own needs.

Terrastories is a free and open-source (FOSS) application and we are looking forward to working with communities across the world in helping them use Terrastories, as recently undertaken in Ontario, Canada.

Currently, Terrastories is being maintained by Digital Democracy, in partnership with a team of volunteer stewards.