Map & GIS Library: Recent submissions
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(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).
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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, ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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, ...
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(1970)
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(Engineer Reproduction Plant, U.S. Army, 1933)
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(Sinclair Cuba Oil Company, 1951)
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(Banco de Fomento Agrícola e Industrial de Cuba, Division Agrícola, Departamento de Diversificacíon, 1957)
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(Banco de Fomento Agrícola e Industrial de Cuba, Division Agrícola, Departamento de Diversificacíon, 1959)
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(Banco de Fomento Agrícola e Industrial de Cuba, Division Agrícola, Departamento de Diversificacíon, 1957)