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An Analysis of Toponymic Homonyms in Gazetteers: Country-Level Duplicate Names in the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s Geographic Names Data Base
(ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2008-08-20)Place names are the most common way we identify geographic features. When place names are unambiguous, they can georeference features, locating them uniquely on the globe. The problem with place names is that they are often ... -
Commentary to "The So-Called Velasco Map: A Case of Forgery?"
(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). -
Editorial: Cartographic Journals— A Look Back and Prospects for the Future
(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 ... -
French Mapping of New York and New England, 1604-1760
(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, ... -
Geospatial Web Services, Open Standards, and Advances in Interoperability: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography
(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, ... -
Historical Maps Online
(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 ... -
The History of Cartography in a Nutshell
(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. -
How to Map a Sandwich: Surfaces, Topological Existence Theorems and the Changing Nature of Modern Thematic Cartography, 1966-1972
(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 ... -
Institutional Map and Atlas Collecting in Eighteenth-Century America
(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 ... -
Juan de la Cosa’s Projection: A Fresh Analysis of the Earliest Preserved Map of the Americas
(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 ... -
Letter to the Editor
(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). -
Letter to the Editor
(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). -
Louis H. Everts: American Atlas Publisher and Entrepreneur
(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 ... -
The Map that Named America: Martin Waldseemüller’s 1507 World Map
(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 ... -
Mapping under the Third Reich: Nazi Restrictions on Map Content and Distribution
(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 ... -
A Mirror of Our World: Google Earth and the History of Cartography
(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 ... -
Problems That Arise When Providing Geographic Coordinate Information for Cataloged Maps
(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 ... -
Ptolemy’s Revenge: A Critique of Historical Cartography
(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 ... -
Recent Trends in the History of Cartography: A Selective, Annotated Bibliography to the English-Language Literature
(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 ... -
The So-Called “Velasco Map”: A Case of Forgery?
(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 ...