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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, ...
Warping Waldseemüller: A Cartometric Study of the Coast of South America As Portrayed on the 1507 World Map
(ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2005-08-29)
In an attempt to shed some light on the problem of Martin Waldseemüller’s portrayal of the shape of South America on his important 1507 world map, polynomial warping algorithms and regression analysis are applied to the ...
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 ...
Unlocking the Mysteries of the Bounding Box
(ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2005-08-29)
Few geospatial data representations are more basic than the bounding box; a rectangle surrounding a geographic feature or dataset. Bounding boxes are a key component of geospatial metadata and lie at the heart of many ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...