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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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...