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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 ...