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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).
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...