A huge map digitization project is nearly finished. “The United States Geological Survey has nearly completed its project to digitize over 200,000 topographical maps and create a free, searchable online archive.” (Look […]
NOAA Creates Collection of Civil War Nautical Charts
The NOAA announced last week the release of “Charting a More Perfect Union,” a collection of over 400 documents including Civil War-era maps and nautical charts, and annual summaries of the US […]
Google Earth’s Got a New Web Site
With Google Instant taking up all the search nerd bandwidth on the Internet last week, you’d think Google didn’t announce anything else. But it did. Google noted last week that it had […]
550+ New Maps from David Rumsey
Still catching up — the David Rumsey Map Collection announced last month that it has added over 550 new maps to its online collection. You can get a list of all the […]
Digital Atlas of Historical County Boundaries
Thanks very much to DK of the Newberry Library, who was kind enough to drop me a note about the recently-completed Digital Atlas of Historical County Boundaries from the Newberry Library. This […]