How much of an area’s history can be told in a succession of maps? After you spend half an hour on the revamped OldMapsOnline, it will seem like a lot. If you’ve come to this long-standing repository ...
Acadiana has more pride of place than most spots and its range of locally made gift items is broad. We've picked a few favorites. Located at 1020 Auburn Ave. in Lafayette, The Historic Map Company ...
It just got way, way easier to search and browse the US Geological Survey’s collection of historical topographic maps, thanks to a new online map viewer. These maps—more than 178,000 of them—date back ...
The map showing the Elder's course was prepared using maps published by the United States Coast Survey and the U. S. Geological Survey. Geographer Henry Gannett traced the route onto an existing ...
The University of Portsmouth has launched a new online project with a title that refreshingly describes its purpose exactly: Old Maps Online. The site has collected links, locations, and metadata for ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second part of a special two-part column from the Bay County Historical Society about one of its holdings — the earliest American navigation map of St. Andrew Bay, printed ...
The Princeton University Library has completed a multiyear project of digitizing a collection of 19th- and 20th-century maps that illustrate the history and development of communities around New ...
Image overlays have consistently been one of the neatest features in Google Earth. The most common use of overlays is to show imagery that is more fresh than what can be found in Google Earth (such as ...
New York City is known for its stunning architecture, but much of what you will pass by on a daily basis holds little known or hidden histories. To make it easier for the public to learn the backstory ...