Mapping heritage: how we built a UNESCO-oriented GIS survey for Banbhore

To nominate a 2,000 year old port city as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, you first have to map every stone of it. That is the work we took on for the Government of Sindh.

The brief

The Government of Sindh Archaeology Department needed authoritative GIS maps and a full field survey of the Banbhore archaeological site, the geospatial evidence base for its UNESCO World Heritage nomination. Accuracy and documentation standards mattered as much as the maps themselves.

What we delivered

• Georeferenced base maps of the site.
• Digitized excavation zones, structures, and features.
• Layered thematic survey data that can be queried and extended.
• Cartographic outputs prepared to documentation standards.

Why geospatial work is its own discipline

GIS is not just drawing on a map. Georeferencing, digitization, coordinate systems, and standards-compliant exports are specialist work, and getting them wrong undermines the record. We built a workflow where field survey data feeds directly into the map layers, so the record stays accurate and current.

The bigger point

Heritage is one application. The same geospatial capability serves asset, infrastructure, and logistics mapping. If you need authoritative maps or a field survey, our GIS and geospatial mapping service does it end to end. Read the full Banbhore case study.