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 ...

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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 ...

About the book: This book illustrates the first connection between the map user community and the developers of digital map processing technologies by providing several applications, challenges, and ...

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 question of finding the quickest way to someone’s heart is one that has been asked time and time again for hundreds of years. So it should come as no surprise that at various points in history, ...

The historical map viewable in the spyglass above comes from the David Rumsey Map Collection. We recently asked David Rumsey, a map expert who has been collecting maps since the 1980s, to describe the ...

The histories of some pieces of land in Chicago are well-known. The Thompson Center in the Loop stands on the former site of the Sherman House Hotel. The Chicago Police Belmont Area Headquarters and ...