The KGR-Finder – a QGIS Plugin fort he quick identification of culturally significant places

Abstract

Events such as earthquakes, fires or floods can cause major damage to archaeological or cultural sites and objects. The QGIS plugin ‘KGR-Finder’ was developed to quickly identify cultural assets in the affected areas and thus support the response planning of KulturGutRetter. By drawing or clicking on polygons in QGIS, this plugin allows queries to be made to Open Street Map (OSM) and iDAI.gazetteer, which return vector data from relevant locations. This makes it possible to create meaningful maps of the areas affected by a disaster with regard to the cultural assets present there. The parameters to be queried can be extended to other OSM tags as required so that the plugin can also be used very well for other projects such as archaeological surveys or the creation of maps for publications.