This Special Issue, edited by Dr. Seraphim Alvanides (UK), Dr. Joana Catarina Vieira Paulino (Portugal) & Dr. Alexandros Bartzokas-Tsiompras (Greece), aims to explore a variety of themes including: Gazetteers, Spatial explorations of narratives, GIS and spatial analysis, Deep mapping, Territorial representations, transgressions, Mapping mobility, spatial connections and networks, Historical maps and georeferencing, Environmental humanities: landscapes, waterscapes and the blue humanities, Linked Open (Geo)Data, Data mining, visualisation and the challenges of geolocation, Building, mapping and spatially analysing heritage inventories etc.

The accepted manuscripts were submitted to and reviewed by the European Journal of Geography (EJG) and is based on previous work presented (as a talk or poster) at the Spatial Humanities 2024 Conference, held at Otto-Friedrich University of Bamberg, Germany, in September 2024. The conference explored the contributions of geospatial technologies, such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS), to humanities research, show-casing how these technologies, approaches, and methods expand knowledge within and beyond the digital humanities. We are grateful to the conference organizers and participants for their valuable discussions, and to the journal's anonymous reviewers for their insightful feedback during the assessment of the full article.