About the book: This book illustrates the first connection between the map user community and the developers of digital map processing technologies by providing several applications, challenges, and ...

It just got way, way easier to search and browse the US Geological Survey’s collection of historical topographic maps, thanks to a new online map viewer. These maps—more than 178,000 of them—date back ...

The Chicago Urban Heritage Project​ is filling in blanks for the history of entire neighborhoods and Chicago as a whole, ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This collection consists of approximately 1.46 cubic feet of historical maps and photographs collected by Dieter Gröschel. The maps, which are ...

The map showing the Elder's course was prepared using maps published by the United States Coast Survey and the U. S. Geological Survey. Geographer Henry Gannett traced the route onto an existing ...

The question of finding the quickest way to someone’s heart is one that has been asked time and time again for hundreds of years. So it should come as no surprise that at various points in history, ...

Just after the pirate ship Whydah went down off Wellfleet in April of 1717, the governor of Massachusetts sent naval officer and cartographer Cyprian Southack to the Outer Cape to wrest the treasure ...

A new installation inside Second Life is bringing alive one of the world’s largest collections of antique maps. Called the David Rumsey Maps Island (registration required), the Second Life site is San ...