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June 2002
Irene E. McDermott |
Where was I? Maps on the Web There is a tremendous amount of spatial data on the World Wide Web: multitudes of maps; armfuls of atlases; cartloads of cartography. Enough to keep a map nerd like myself clicking and dreaming for years. Maps on the Web are designed for many uses, and many of them are free...   |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2012
Fleet et al. |
Georeferencer: Crowdsourced Georeferencing for Map Library Collections The Georeferencer application is a collaborative online project allowing crowdsourced georeferencing of map images. It builds upon a number of related technologies that use existing zoomable images from library web servers. |
D-Lib
December 2001
Charly Bauer |
Implementing Digital Sanborn Maps for Ohio The Ohio Library and Information Network (OhioLINK) and the Ohio Public Library Network (OPLIN) have collaborated to provide the state of Ohio with digital versions of Sanborn Fire Insurance maps covering the state... |
InternetNews
April 5, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
Google My Maps is Your Maps Google's My Maps allows users to mark locations on a map from a library of icons, draw lines and shapes to highlight paths and areas, and add text, photos, or YouTube/Google videos. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2002
Kenning Arlitsch |
Digitizing Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for a Full Color, Publicly Accessible Collection Aside from the intended audience of insurance companies, the maps have been of value to genealogists, demographers, environmentalists, urban planners, historians, and laypersons, and it is no surprise that attempts have been made in recent years to digitize the maps. |
Fast Company
February 2004
Charles Fishman |
Making Tracks Richard Carpenter is mapping every mile of America's railroad system as of 1946. By hand. "It's a story," he says, "that needs to be told." |
Searcher
April 2002
Marylaine Block |
Mapping the Information Landscape Why is it worth identifying our mental maps and thinking about them? To remind ourselves when we get bogged down in a question, that we can reorient ourselves to a different map and a different strategy for finding answers... |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2011
Oehrli et al. |
MapRank: Geographical Search for Cartographic Materials in Libraries A web-based geographical search system (geosearch), which analyzes the geographical coordinates of MARC21 field 034, has been developed for the Swiss research portal for maps. |
PC World
August 20, 2007
Steve Bass |
The Web's Best Mapping Sites At the top map services, driving directions are just the beginning. |
Information Today
May 20, 2010 |
ProQuest's New Sanborn Maps Geo Edition ProQuest is using a proprietary geo-referencing technology to enhance discovery in its Sanborn Map collection, one of libraries' most consulted sources of historical maps. |
D-Lib
April 2000
David Rumsey & Julie Sweetkind |
The David Rumsey Collection At the beginning of March, one of the largest private map collections in the United States, the David Rumsey Collection, went online... |
CRM
June 2015
Oren Smilansky |
What You Need to Know About Customer Experience Maps Before a company designs its map, it should take a number of steps to make sure it doesn't go off course |
Outside
September 2002
Mark Jenkins |
I Know Where I'm Going On getting lost, GPS, and a farewell to maps |
