Browsing Coordinates: Online Journal of the Map and Geography Round Table, American Library Association by Title
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(ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2006-02-14)This article discusses David Y. Allen, "The So-Called Velasco Map: A Case of Forgery?" (Coordinates, Series A, no. 5).
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(ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2005-10-05)This article reviews the recent history of journal publishing in the the fields of cartography, GIS, history of cartography, and related subjects. The impact of the Internet and Web-based publishing on cartographic journals ...
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(ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2005-10-09)This article focuses on colonial-era French mapping of the region between the French and British settlements in what is now the northeastern United States. This area was largely dominated by Iroquoian and Algonquian Indians, ...
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(ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2010-03-09)This paper is designed to help GIS librarians and information specialists follow developments in the emerging field of geospatial Web services (GWS). When built using open standards, GWS permits users to dynamically access, ...
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(ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2005-01-31)For 20 years, David Rumsey assembled a collection of more than 150,000 historical maps of the Americas and the world. Motivated by a desire to make his private map collection a free public resource, Rumsey then created an ...
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(ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2008-06-03)his is a very short history of cartography. Notes and links to images are included at the end.
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(ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2009-03-15)This paper is meant to be the beginning of a project that examines the use of abstract mathematics and the changing ontology of mapmaking in the early years of the development of computer cartography. The history of the ...
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(ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2008-04-17)Many colonists brought books, atlases, and maps to America; some assembled personal libraries that would ultimately benefit public institutions. The establishment of academic and subscription libraries initiated institutional ...
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(ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2010-05-24)Previous cartographic studies of the 1500 map by Juan de La Cosa have found substantial and difficult-to-explain errors in latitude, especially for the Antilles and the Caribbean coast. In this study, a mathematical ...
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(ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2008-04-17)Letter to the editor regarding David Bosse's article, "Institutional Map and Atlas Collecting in Eighteenth-Century America," (Coordinates, Series B; 9).
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(ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2008-05-07)Letter to the editor regarding Jorge A. Gonzalez’ article "Problems That Arise When Providing Geographic Coordinate Information for Cataloged Maps” (Coordinates Series B, No. 8).
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(ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2009-06-08)Louis H. Everts was a native of New York, resident of Illinois, and publisher in Chicago, Philadelphia and Buffalo. His life and business practices illustrate the growth and changes in American county map publishing between ...
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(ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2005-08-29)This brief overview of the history of Martin Waldseemüller's 1507 map and its acquisition by the Library of Congress is presented as a complement to John Hessler's article, "Warping Waldseemüller: A Cartometric Study of ...
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(ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2005-01-31)A 99-page 1947 State Department report discovered in the NOAA Central Library summarized sixty map-related regulations issued by the German government between July 1934 and June 1944. Although the Third Reich pursued ...
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(ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2009-08-20)Google Earth is widely admired as one of the most advanced and powerful products of modern computerized cartography. It has been praised as a revolutionary new way of viewing the earth, as the first convincing attempt at ...
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(ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2007-10-16)Maps are not always published with coordinates. However, by following strict guidelines in the 034 and 255 MARC fields, and by using cataloging rules, one can interpolate this data in order to provide coordinates in ...
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(ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2005-11-16)This article calls for a new approach to historical cartography. Arguing that cartographic presentism obscures the local geographies of the past, the author reviews the imagery of current historical mapping as geocentric ...
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(ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2007-04-11)The history of cartography has since the 1970s significantly expanded its disciplinary reach, its theoretical directions and approaches, and its scholarship. This annotated bibliography is intended as a guide to the extended ...
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(ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2006-02-14)This article examines a well-known map of the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada allegedly made in or around 1610. The map was uncovered in the Spanish Archives at Simancas in 1887. Supposedly, it is a copy ...
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(ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2006-09-25)Very few institutions offer introductory courses in the history of cartography. Distance learning is a way to make this type of course more widely available. This paper discusses the ways in which special collections ...