For owners
Owner handbook
What you can do with your house once it is yours on herimap, roughly in the order owners do it. None of it is compulsory: an entry with a good description and one photograph is already worth having.
Claim it
Your house is probably on the map already, drawn from an open heritage source in your country. Claiming it is a statement that you own it or act for its owner, and we review that before handing over the keys. Claim the existing entry rather than adding a second one.
Back it up
A claim needs one piece of proof that the house is yours, or that you act for its owner: an ownership document, a registry extract, proof of your association membership, or a recent utility bill at the address. Attach whichever you have — one is enough. Only a curator can open it. It never appears on your house. We keep it as the record behind the decision on your claim.
Describe it
One tab at a time, saved as you type, with a status line that tells you the work is safe. Headings, emphasis, lists and links all survive; the formatting page shows exactly which marks the editor keeps.
Formatting your textWrite it in your own language
A house can be described in any of thirty-four European languages. Visitors are shown the one they read, and English fills the gaps where a translation does not exist yet. Writing in your own language first is usually the better order.
Choose who sees it
By default, anyone can find your house in search and on the map. You can change that, so only members of your associations can see it. Then no one else will find it. You can change it back at any time. This only changes who can see your house, not whether it is on herimap.
Add photographs
Photographs do more for an entry than anything else you can add. You must hold the rights to what you upload — a picture taken by somebody else needs their permission, whoever owns the house.
Open it, if you want to
Concerts, exhibitions, garden days, guided tours. An event stays a draft until you publish it, carries its own accessibility note, and can be cancelled. Tickets arrive with a QR code that you scan at the door from your own phone.
Offer a space
Six kinds: a room to stay in, a wedding, a conference, an event space, a meeting, a film shoot. Set the capacity and the price, and a visitor's request to book arrives in your inbox rather than becoming a booking behind your back.
Answer what arrives
Booking requests, ticket reservations and replies all land in one inbox, each showing where it has got to, so that nothing waits unnoticed.
See it all at once
Every event and every booking, across all of your houses, on a single occupation calendar.
Bring in your people
A house can carry more than one person — family, a manager, whoever actually answers the enquiries. Each keeps their own sign-in, and access can be withdrawn without a password ever changing hands.
Join an association
An association membership gives you three things beyond your own entry: a shared board with its other members, a filter that shows only that association's houses on the map, and the same filter on the events listing. You can browse what the association hosts. Its events do not appear in your own calendar.
Keep the system you already have
If your events live somewhere else, push them in with a key issued for your house, or let herimap collect them from your own endpoint on a schedule. Nobody should have to type an event twice.
What it costs
Nothing today — herimap takes no payments yet. It will be a paid platform: a fixed monthly fee, plus a commission on what you sell through it. The figures are not set, and the terms will be published before they take effect.