Thank you for your interest in submitting your map to the HDMA. We accept submissions in a variety of ways. Please choose whichever method is most convenient for you.
Our goal is to share the maps you have found or created with the widest audience possible. To this end, we assume that you agree with our terms and conditions whenever you submit a map to the HDMA.
With all submissions, please provide any information you would like included with your map such as location, name of submitter and/or creator, date, and description. We think the stories behind the maps are just as interesting as the actual map, so let us know the background story and we'll share it with everyone. We want to properly credit you, so please include as much information as possible.
All map submitters will receive an official HDMA button. Please include your mailing address if you would like this sent to you.
Upload high quality images in any format using our drop.io fileshare. We prefer images at least 700 pixels in any one direction at 300 dpi or higher, but all submissions are welcome. Large files may take a few minutes to upload so please wait.
Mail your original paper map to the address below. We actually prefer this method and will even pay you for your submission to help cover postage costs (limited time offer). We prefer your actual, physical map on paper because they are so much more interesting and fun to archive.
HDMA
c/o Kristofer Harzinski
440 North Concord Street
Lancaster PA 17603
United States
High quality jpegs of your map can be sent to the address below. We prefer images at least 700 pixels in any one direction at 300 dpi or higher, but all submissions are welcome.
When you submit maps or other images or information to the HDMA, you will continue to own any and all intellectual property rights in your submission, and you can obviously still use it in any way you see fit. The HDMA does not claim any ownership of your submission.
However, you are giving us a perpetual, royalty-free license (that is, "permission") to use, reproduce, publish, and otherwise exercise all intellectual property rights (including copyright and rights of publicity) with respect your submission, including storing it electronically and using or incorporating it in other works and in any media now known or later developed, including without limitation, in published books and public exhibitions. You also agree that we can use your submission at our discretion, including cropping, tinting, or otherwise altering it for our uses, and we can share it with the public through different methods. Finally, since this is a public project, you agree not to hold the HDMA or any of its members or agents responsible for any uses the HDMA or anyone else may make of your submission. If you have any concerns about sharing the information contained in your submission with the public, you should not submit it to the HDMA..
