“Globes have a very low survival rate,” explained Ian Fowler, director of the Osher Map Library (OML) at the University of Southern Maine. Made to be touched and spun, globes wear down over the years, ...

The Summit Historical Society has launched a project to digitize the historic maps in its collection. Summit Historical Society director Jordan Bennett said Wednesday, Feb. 5, that the nonprofit has ...

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — At his desk, in a corner of an office on the main level of the Woodbury County Courthouse, Ron Koch has history sitting out. Or, rather, straightening out. A geographic ...

In the past six months, states including Iowa, New Jersey, Virginia and Wisconsin have launched multimillion-dollar initiatives to correct and digitize school maps and get them in the hands of local ...

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The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded the University of Chicago Library, in partnership with the Newberry Library and the Chicago History Museum, a grant to digitize historical maps of ...

At least 22 states have invested in digitizing maps of K-12 public schools for law enforcement agencies to use during emergencies such as mass shootings. Iowa, New Jersey, Virginia and Wisconsin have ...

Recently the National Archives has completed digitizing maps prepared by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during the Civil War. One of these, a military map of Cape Girardeau, appeared years ago, but ...

MADISON, Wis. -- The Madison Metropolitan School District is hoping to make its schools easier to navigate for first responders in the event of any emergencies by bringing the building maps into the ...

Antique maps drafted by Japanese cartographers are historically valuable and beautiful as art objects, says Yuki Ishimatsu, head of Japanese collections at the University of California at Berkeley’s ...

(TNS) — In an effort to increase security, New Jersey will use $6.5 million in federal funds to finish creating digital maps of all the state’s schools — public and private — that law enforcement can ...

1. Introduction -- Terminology -- Selected examples of analytic mapping and geographic databases in the social and policy sciences -- 2. Geographic databases -- Geographic information systems -- Data ...