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<H2>A round-up of national and international digital projects <BR>concerning
early mapping </H2></CENTER>
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<LI><A
href="http://www.maphistory.info/projects.html#afriterra">Afriterra: the
Cartographic Free Library (Boston)</A>
<LI><A href="http://www.maphistory.info/projects.html#aldre">Äldre
geometriska jordeböcker</A>
<LI><A href="http://www.maphistory.info/projects.html#american">American
Memory Project</A>
<LI><A href="http://www.maphistory.info/projects.html#ancient">Ancient
World Mapping Center </A>
<LI><A href="http://www.maphistory.info/projects.html#archivi">Archivi
in Rete</A>
<LI><A href="http://www.maphistory.info/projects.html#atlas">Atlas of
Historical US County Boundaries (Newberry Library, Chicago) </A>
<LI><A
href="http://www.maphistory.info/projects.html#austro-hung">Austro-Hungarian
Topographic Maps</A>
<LI><A
href="http://www.maphistory.info/projects.html#biblioteca">Biblioteca
Nazionale Marciana, Venezia</A>
<LI><A href="http://www.maphistory.info/projects.html#bremen">Bremen</A>
<LI><A href="http://www.maphistory.info/projects.html#british">British
and Irish digital projects</A> <!--
<li><a href="#centro">Centro Studi sull' Iconografia della città europea</a>
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<LI><A href="http://www.maphistory.info/projects.html#charles">Charles
Booth</A>
<LI><A href="http://www.maphistory.info/projects.html#charting">Charting
the Nation 1590-1740 [Scotland]</A>
<LI><A href="http://www.maphistory.info/projects.html#china">China
Historical Geographic Information System (CHGIS) project</A>
<LI><A href="http://www.maphistory.info/projects.html#collect">Collect
Britain [British Library]</A>
<LI><A href="http://www.maphistory.info/projects.html#rumsey">David
Rumsey collection</A>
<LI><A href="http://www.maphistory.info/projects.html#digital">Digital
Historical Maps (northern Europe)</A>
<LI><A href="http://www.maphistory.info/projects.html#diwa">Digitaler
Wenker-Atlas (DiWA)</A>
<LI><A href="http://www.maphistory.info/projects.html#early">Early Maps
(1660-1850) of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard </A>
<LI><A href="http://www.maphistory.info/projects.html#electronic">The
Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI) </A>
<LI><A href="http://www.maphistory.info/projects.html#england">England.
History of cartography research at the University of Exeter </A>
<LI><A href="http://www.maphistory.info/projects.html#forma">'Forma
Urbis Romae' </A>
<LI><A href="http://www.maphistory.info/projects.html#gallica">Gallica -
Bibliothèque nationale de France</A>
<LI><A href="http://www.maphistory.info/projects.html#geoweb">GeoWeb
</A>
<LI><A href="http://www.maphistory.info/projects.html#great">Great
Britain Historical GIS Project </A>
<LI><A href="http://www.maphistory.info/projects.html#gpgn">Greater
Philadelphia GeoHistory Network (GPGN)</A>
<LI><A href="http://www.maphistory.info/projects.html#hic">Hic Sunt
Leones </A></LI></UL></TD>
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<LI><A href="http://www.maphistory.info/projects.html#historic">Historic
Cities</A>
<LI><A
href="http://www.maphistory.info/projects.html#oberrheins">Historische
Kartenbestände des Oberrheins</A>
<LI><A href="http://www.maphistory.info/projects.html#iceland">Iceland
</A>
<LI><A href="http://www.maphistory.info/projects.html#images">Images for
economic and social history</A>
<LI><A href="http://www.maphistory.info/projects.html#imago">Imago II
Project [Rome]</A>
<LI><A href="http://www.maphistory.info/projects.html#itinera">Itinera
per Indias Occidentales</A>
<LI><A href="http://www.maphistory.info/projects.html#lewis">Lewis and
Clark Historic Landscape Project</A>
<LI><A href="http://www.maphistory.info/projects.html#europe">Mapping
Europe's Historic Boundaries and Borders</A>
<LI><A href="http://www.maphistory.info/projects.html#med">Mapping
Mediterranean Lands</A>
<LI><A href="http://www.maphistory.info/projects.html#gough">Mapping the
Realm</A>
<LI><A href="http://www.maphistory.info/projects.html#world">Mapping the
World</A>
<LI><A href="http://www.maphistory.info/projects.html#memory">Memory of
the Netherlands Project (‘Het Geheugen van Nederland’)</A>
<LI><A href="http://www.maphistory.info/projects.html#nolli">Nolli map
of Rome</A>
<LI><A href="http://www.maphistory.info/projects.html#parish">Parish Map
Preservation Project [New South Wales]</A> <!--
<li><a href="#perception">Perception of Space and Forms of Mappings. From
Medieval Cosmography to Renaissance Cartography: Towards a New
Reading of Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century Cartography</a>
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<LI><A
href="http://www.maphistory.info/projects.html#peutinger">Peutinger’s
Roman Map</A>
<LI><A href="http://www.maphistory.info/projects.html#pfyffer">Pfyffer.
Historical Relief Model of Switzerland</A>
<LI><A href="http://www.maphistory.info/projects.html#pictures">Pictures
in Print</A>
<LI><A href="http://www.maphistory.info/projects.html#pont">Project Pont
(Scotland)</A>
<LI><A
href="http://www.maphistory.info/projects.html#ptolemaios">Ptolemaios-Forschungsstelle</A>
<LI><A
href="http://www.maphistory.info/projects.html#resources">Resources for
Learning in Scotland (RLS)</A>
<LI><A href="http://www.maphistory.info/projects.html#roadmaps">Road Map
Collectors Association</A>
<LI><A href="http://www.maphistory.info/projects.html#stanford">Stanford
Geological Survey Maps and Field Notebooks </A>
<LI><A href="http://www.maphistory.info/projects.html#time">TimeMap</A>
<LI><A
href="http://www.maphistory.info/projects.html#ukborders">UKBORDERS
On-Line Digital Boundary Data (Edinburgh Univ.)</A>
<LI><A href="http://www.maphistory.info/projects.html#serial">U.S.
Serial Set Maps</A>
<LI><A href="http://www.maphistory.info/projects.html#upjohn">W.E.
Upjohn Center for the Study of Geographical Change</A>
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<CENTER><I>For texts discussing digital preservation issues in general
see</I>:</CENTER>
<CENTER><A href="http://www.maphistory.info/aboutim.html#creating">Creating map
images (helpful sites) and digital preservation issues</A></CENTER>
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<A name=afriterra></A><A href="http://www.afriterra.org/"
target=_blank>Afriterra: the Cartographic Free Library (Boston)</A>
<P>"AFRITERRA is a not-for-profit archive of mostly antique maps and books,
providing a definitive place for students and the general public to study and
preserve the original rare maps of Africa as a medium linking art and science
and history." Elsewhere, its goal has been described as "cataloging and
digitizing over 10,000 rare early maps of Africa...Opening in 2002, the library
will provide a focused visual record on Africa...through slides, lectures,
exhibits, prints, and the sharing of files." The mounting of its images of maps
of Africa is also noted on the <A
href="http://www.maphistory.info/imageafrica.html">Web Images</A> page. See the
<A href="http://www.afriterra.org/mapsList.html" target=_blank>Holdings</A> page
for lists of maps and books, and links to sample map images.
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<A name=aldre></A><A href="http://www.ra.se/ra/geometriska/index.html"
target=_blank>Äldre geometriska jordeböcker</A>
<P>A project from the Swedish national archives to digitize the oldest Swedish
cadastral maps (1633-55), 'Geometriska jordeböckerna', including their
accompanying text. Ten plans from the 1637 MS cadastral atlas by Karl Karlsson
Gyllenhielm of an area in <A
href="http://www.ra.se/ra/geometriska/geometriska5.html"
target=_blank>Småland</A> have been put on the web. See also <A
href="http://www.ra.se/ra/geometriska/manadens/index.html"
target=_blank>'Månadens karta'</A>, explanatory pages with sample illustrations.
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<A name=american></A><A href="http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/"
target=_blank>American Memory Project</A>
<P>The Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress is contributing to
the American Memory Project with a wide range of map images. For details, see <A
href="http://www.maphistory.info/imagelarge.html#lc" target=_blank>Images of
early maps on the web: Large general sites</A>.
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<A name=ancient></A><A href="http://www.unc.edu/awmc/" target=_blank>Ancient
World Mapping Center</A>
<P>'The Ancient World Mapping Center exists to promote cartography and
geographic information science as essential disciplines within the field of
ancient studies. The staff and affiliates of the Center work to advance the
study of the ancient world through innovative and collaborative research,
teaching, and community outreach activities using cartography, geographic
information science, and historical geography.' Includes sample maps from the
<I>Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World.</I>
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<A name=archivi></A><A href="http://www.archiviodistato.cagliari.it/"
target=_blank>Archivi in Rete: Elenco degli indirizzi dell'Amministrazione
Archivistica e di alcuni Archivi di Stato online</A>
<P>Links to 26 Italian archives engaged in mounting material on the web, run by
the Archivio di Stato di Cagliari
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<A name=atlas></A><A href="http://www.newberry.org/ahcbp/ie/index.html"
target=_blank>Atlas of Historical US County Boundaries (Newberry Library,
Chicago)</A>
<P>A reference work designed to provide information about the creation and
boundary changes of every county in the United States, from the earliest county
creation in the 1600s to 1990.
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<A name=austro-hung></A>Austro-Hungarian Topographic Maps
<P>See <A href="http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=20522#article1"
target=_blank>‘Building a Globally Distributed Historical Sheet Map Set of
Austro-Hungarian Topographic Maps, 1877-1914’</A> (by Patrick McGlamery in
<I>RLG DigiNews</I> 9, 1 (February 2005), describing a project to scan and
geo-reference images from the 776 sheets in the series) .
<P>The aim of this project is to create an international, metadata-driven,
dynamic access tool that will enable users to find and view scanned and
geo-referenced images from 1877-1914 Austro-Hungarian topographic maps (AuHu75)
by querying an easy-to-use digital gazetteer. The 776 sheets are known in a
total of about 3,665 editions. A prototype of the AuHu75 can be found on the <A
href="http://magic.lib.uconn.edu/website/AuHuProto/viewer.htm"
target=_blank>MAGIC</A> website of the University of Connecticut’s Homer
Babbidge Library.
<P>
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<A name=biblioteca></A><A href="http://marciana.venezia.sbn.it/geo.htm"
target=_blank>Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venezia,</A> Ufficio Carte
Geografiche e Stampe. 'Progetti speciali'
<P>Related cataloguing and image capture projects involving the Coronelli
corpus, the Fra Mauro map and thousands of other maps. See also GeoWeb and 'Hic
Sunt Leones' - both below.
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<A name=bremen></A><A href="http://gauss.suub.uni-bremen.de/suub/hist/index.jsp"
target=_blank>Bremen. DFG-Projekt: Retrospektive Digitalisierung des
historischen Kartenbestandes der Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen</A>
<P>[From an earlier English text version, headed: 'Retrospective digitisation of
historical geographical maps at the State and University Library Bremen']. "The
State and University Library Bremen plans to digitize its collection of
historical maps and present the digitized maps via its website. In the first
phase, which is now completed, 100 historical maps have been digitized. This
phase has been financed by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), the German
Research Council...It is planned to digitize the whole collection and present it
via the Internet in a second phase". Project duration: October 2000 to September
2002.
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<A name=british></A><A href="http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/maps/Digital.htm"
target=_blank>British and Irish digital projects</A>
<P>A twice-yearly update (started November 2002) with brief details of new and
developing digital cartographic projects, gathered by Anne Taylor, University of
Cambridge, on behalf of BRICMICS (British and Irish Committee on Map Information
and Cataloguing Systems)
<P><!--
{SEE: http://www.unina.it/ateneoFridericiano/centriRicerca/index.jsp?livello1=1&livello2=0&livello3=0 - checked 306 and still listed but link not active }
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<a href="http://www.iconografia.unina.it" target="_blank">Centro Studi sull' Iconografia
della città europea</a><p>
Among other objectives, the Centro (run from the Università degli Studi
di Napoli "Federico II") aims to "raccogliere, inventariare e catalogare la
documentazione
iconografica della città europea dal Medioevo all'Età Moderna." The
intention is that these 'fonti iconografiche' will be accessible via the web.
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<A name=charles></A><A href="http://booth.lse.ac.uk/" target=_blank>Charles
Booth</A>
<P>"A site exploring the papers of Charles Booth, his family, and his survey
into life and labour in London. This web site accompanies a new project to put
digitised versions of the material described here online. The full Online Guide
to the Papers of Charles Booth will be launching in January 2001".
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<A name=charting></A><A name=""></A><A
href="http://www.chartingthenation.lib.ed.ac.uk/" target=_blank>Charting the
Nation 1590-1740</A>
<P>'Charting the Nation is a collaborative digital imaging and cataloguing
project with the aim of preserving and widening access to maps of Scotland and
their associated archives dating from 1590 to 1740.' The intention is to mount
about 3,600 images, of maps and related texts.
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<A name=china></A><A href="http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~chgis/"
target=_blank>China Historical Geographic Information System (CHGIS) project</A>
<P>'The CHGIS will establish a standardized coding system to identify historical
administrative units for different periods in Chinese History, and will also
provide a base GIS platform for researchers to use for spatial analysis,
temporal statistical modeling, and representation of selected historical units
as digital maps. The project will begin with several temporal slices from the
Qing Dynasty and work backwards in time, allowing for additional information
about intervening points in time to be added at any stage in the process'. For
results to date see <A href="http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~chgis/data/rus_geo/"
target=_blank>From Tibet to Altai - Russian Historical Maps of China</A>.
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<A name=collect></A><A href="http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/"
target=_blank>Collect Britain: Putting History in Place (British Library)</A>
<P>"Journey with us through time and place. Our rich hidden resources are now
open to all. Collect Britain will grow over time. This is just a first selection
from the British Library's vast collections". Funded by the New Opportunities
Fund. The <A href="http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/collections/"
target=_blank>Collections </A>page features the following map series, which will
feature in the final online collection: The Crace Collection of Maps of London;
The Ordnance Surveyors' Drawings; The Unveiling of Britain [maps and views
800-1600]; King George III's Topographical Collection; Deptford Plans and
Drawings Collection. For fuller details of these series, as they are mounted on
the web, see the appropriate pages in the <A
href="http://www.maphistory.info/webimages.html">Web Images</A> section.
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<A name=rumsey></A><A href="http://www.davidrumsey.com/" target=_blank>David
Rumsey collection</A>
<P>For descriptive notes, see <A
href="http://www.maphistory.info/imagelarge.html#rumsey">Images of early maps on
the web: large general sites</A>
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<A name=digital></A><A href="http://www.dhm.lm.se/slutrapport_dhm/report.htm"
target=_blank>Digital Historical Maps</A>
<P>[<I>The project closed in 2001</I>]. A consortium of archives in Denmark,
Germany and Sweden. 'In this project we show more than 10 000 maps and text
documents, free of charge. The selection is made to make it possible to get an
overview of what type of information you can gain from different times from the
archives'. It is supported by the European Commission's INFO2000 programme. The
site includes high quality images, and commentary on the materials used for the
maps and on the digitisation process. See also entries for the separate
countries under <A href="http://www.maphistory.info/imageeurcont.html">Web
Images</A>
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<A name=diwa></A><A href="http://www.diwa.info/" target=_blank>Digitaler
Wenker-Atlas (DiWA). Georg Wenker's "Sprachatlas des Deutschen Reichs"</A>
<P>Georg Wenker's "Linguistic Atlas of the German Empire" (Sprachatlas des
Deutschen Reichs; data collected between 1876 and 1887) is the first and to date
most extensive linguistic atlas in existence. Featuring data from approximately
50,000 locations, it represents the only total survey and cartographic depiction
of the dialects of a language. With their as yet unmatched clarity, the 1,668
hand-drawn maps are a cultural historical asset of the first order. This is why
the endangered atlas (the 22 colors are beginning to fade), which for technical
and financial reasons has never been published, is to be conserved and made
publicly accessible. To this end, the Wenker Atlas maps are being photographed,
digitized, incorporated into various databases, and made freely available via
the Internet...
<P>To date (19 December 2002), all component maps have been digitalized, 276
maps are available online. [Extracted from the English version of the
'Projektbeschreibung']
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<A name=early></A><A href="http://digital.nypl.org/maps.html"
target=_blank>Early Maps (1660-1850) of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard</A>
<P>"The Research Libraries of The New York Public Library will digitize and make
broadly available on its website, a collection of antiquarian maps and atlases,
1660-1850 of the United States Middle-Atlantic region. With support from the
National Endowment of the Humanities, this two year grant 2000-2002 will
catalog, perform conservation work on some of the maps, and digitize
approximately 1,190 sheet maps and 150 maps contained in atlases."
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<A name=electronic></A><A href="http://www.ecai.org/" target=_blank>The
Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI) </A>
<P>Currently comprising 75 separate historical GIS projects. On this see:
Michael Buckland and Lewis Lancaster, <A
href="http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may04/buckland/05buckland.html"
target=_blank>'Combining Place, Time, and Topic: The Electronic Cultural Atlas
Initiative'</A>, <I>D-Lib Magazine</I>, May 2004, Vol. 10, No.5.
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<A name=england></A><A
href="http://www.sogaer.ex.ac.uk/geography/research/historical/hist_of_cart.shtml"
target=_blank>England. History of cartography research at the University of
Exeter</A>
<P>A series of ongoing projects, each with their own web page, as follows: Tithe
maps; Enclosure and rating, parochial asessment, sanitary and drainage maps;
Boundaries of historic (pre-1850) parishes and townships of England and Wales;
Ordnance Survey; British Town Maps, 1470-1895: A Catalogue and Cartographical
Analysis; Maps and History in South-West England; Cadastral maps in the service
of the state: a history of property mapping; Historical Atlas of South-West
England; English maps: a history.
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<A name=roadmaps></A><A href="http://www.roadmaps.org/" target=_blank>Road Map
Collectors Association</A>
<P>Two projects, both covering the separate US states and Canadian provinces: <A
href="http://www.roadmaps.org/omml/index.html" target=_blank>'Official
[Highways] Maps Master List' (OMML)</A> and the projected <A
href="http://www.roadmaps.org/prmml.html" target=_blank>'Petro Maps Master
List'</A>.
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<A name=forma></A><A href="http://formaurbis.stanford.edu/index.html"
target=_blank>'Forma Urbis Romae'</A>
<P>Experiments are underway to see if 3D scanning techniques could be used to
piece together the more than 1,163 marble fragments that make up the giant map
of ancient Rome (c.200 A.D.). This would form part of the Michelangelo Project.
On this, see a BBC News piece of 28 April 2004 by <A
href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3659501.stm" target=_blank>David
Whitehouse</A>.
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<A name=gallica></A><A href="http://gallica.bnf.fr/" target=_blank>Gallica -
Bibliothèque nationale de France</A>
<P>'Une bibliothèque patrimoniale et encyclopédique', to comprise 70,000
'noteworthy' digitised texts [click on 'Recherche' and restrict to 'Ouvrages en
mode texte' and 'Monographies en mode image'] and over 80,000 images. The works
involved include Ptolemy, Ortelius, Sanson and various venerable commentaries on
early maps and charts, e.g. by Hamy. Making a browsing selection, via
'Recherche', and entering 'cart*' in 'Mots du Titre' produced 1025 entries (not
all relevant), whereas entering 'cartes' in 'Sujet' produced 199, 'atlas' 28 and
'cartes nautiques' 116. The black and white images are taken from microfilm of
variable quality but it can be considerably enlarged; choose TIFF or PDF format
via 'Téléchargement de l'ouvrage' [examined December 2003]
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<A name=geoweb></A><A href="http://geoweb.venezia.sbn.it/geoweb/GWindex.html"
target=_blank>GeoWeb</A>
<P>'The cartographical and graphical website of the national Library Marciana of
Venice'. The online catalogue links to over 20,000 low resolution map images.
Searching can also be done via an interactive map. There is an <A
href="http://geoweb.venezia.sbn.it/geoweb/GeoWebListaAZ.html"
target=_blank>alphabetical listing </A>of the works involved. See also under
Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venezia, above.
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<A name=great></A><A href="http://www.port.ac.uk/research/gbhgis/"
target=_blank>Great Britain Historical GIS Project</A>
<P>A computerised record of the changing administrative boundaries of Britain,
currently working backwards from the early 19th century to the 17th. See also <A
href="http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/index.jsp" target=_blank>'A Vision of
Britain Through Time'</A>. <BR>
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<A name=gpgn></A><A href="http://www.philageohistory.org/geohistory/"
target=_blank>Greater Philadelphia GeoHistory Network (GPGN)</A>
<P>Involving many members of the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special
Collections Libraries (PACSCL). The GeoHistory Network will serve as a flexible
and inclusive repository for information about the southeastern Pennsylvania
region. The historical base map of land records has been scanned by the City of
Philadelphia, Department of Records and three Philadelphia atlases (1860, 1895
and 1910) will be included in the GIS for exploring the history, culture, and
architecture of the region.
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<A name=hic></A><A href="http://geoweb.venezia.sbn.it/geoweb/Hsl/HSLindex.html"
target=_blank>Hic Sunt Leones</A>
<P>'Texts and resources for the historical and cartographical research and the
carto-bibliography', edited by Piero Falchetta of the Biblioteca Marciana. These
include a listing of the early maps of America in the Marciana, studies on
de'Barbari, Cabot, and Fra Mauro, the contents pages of <A
href="http://www.maphistory.info/imago.html"><I>Imago Mundi</I></A>, and the
entire sequence of place-names from a 14th century portolan chart. See also
under Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venezia, above.
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<A name=historic></A><A href="http://historic-cities.huji.ac.il/about_us.html"
target=_blank>Historic Cities</A>
<P>"A joint project of the Historic Cities Center of the Department of
Geography, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Jewish National and
University Library. It is intended to contain maps, literature, documents, books
and other relevant material concerning the past, present and future of historic
cities and to facilitate the location of similar content on the web. We would
like the site to be a meeting place for the lovers of historic cities and to
function as a virtual archive, which will constantly develop and grow. The
content will be loaded gradually: first we will load several hundreds of high
quality city maps which we scanned, and brief documented histories of some of
the most important cities." See also under <A
href="http://www.maphistory.info/imageeurcont.html">Web Images</A> (Continental
Europe: 'Town plans'; Russia (St Petersburg))
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<A name=oberrheins></A><A
href="http://www.ub.uni-freiburg.de/eucor/karten/index-d.html"
target=_blank>Historische Kartenbestände des Oberrheins</A>
<P>Scans of maps and related texts on the website of the University Library,
Freiburg im Breisgau. A joint project of the libraries of the EUCOR
Confederation and the Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe.
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<A name=iceland></A><A href="http://kort.bok.hi.is/index.php"
target=_blank>Iceland</A>
<P>The National and University Library of Iceland and the National Library of
Norway are co-operating to produce electronic images of pre-1900 maps of
Iceland.
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<A name=images></A><A
href="http://www.istitutodatini.it/biblio/images/en/presenta.htm"
target=_blank>Images for economic and social history: presentation data bank of
images</A>
<P>Images from early books relating to economic history, from the collections of
the Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica "F. Datini" - Prato, the
Biblioteca Comunale "A. Lazzerini" - Prato and the Biblioteca Riccardiana -
Firenze. See various individual entries in the appropriate parts of the Web
Images <A href="http://www.maphistory.info/webimages.html">section</A>, or go to
the <A href="http://www.maphistory.info/index.html">Homepage</A> and use the
Sitesearch for 'immagini'.
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<A name=imago></A><A
href="http://www.asrm.archivi.beniculturali.it/English/index.html"
target=_blank>Imago II Project (Archivio di Stato di Roma)</A>
<P>"The Imago II Project, achieved in 1997-2000, had the goal of turning from
traditional techniques of reproduction to the new digital ones, to preserve
original documents. Many of the most consulted series are now available for a
virtual access, in the State Archive or on Internet since june 2002. Today are
in the Imago information system: Alessandrino Cadastre, Urban Roman Cadastre, a
selection of the Gregoriano Cadastre including the 600 most important towns of
Papal State, the carthography of the old rural Cadastre. Also the roman
parchments were digitized, and are now included in a common database with the
others, were often abstracts ("regesti") are included. Some of the more useful
registers are digitized too: alphabetic registers of roman notaries; some
ancient registers of the Tesorerie provinciali. Finally, some precious items as
the illuminated manuscript of Liber Regulae. Within the project about 5.000
digital color photos have been done of maps and manuscripts, 25.000 colour
scanning of ancient maps and parchments, 100.000 greyscale scanning of cadastre
and notarial registers. Images in jpeg format have been masterized in about 500
CD-R while copies of this images, in a MrSID format, are now available in high
resolution on this website." [Text also in <A
href="http://www.asrm.archivi.beniculturali.it/index.html"
target=_blank>Italian</A> - note that it is necessary to register before
consulting the images]
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<A name=itinera></A>Itinera per Indias Occidentales
<P>A joint project between the Biblioteca Nacional José Martì, Havana (Cuba) and
the Biblioteca Angelica, Rome, to create a web-based databank containing
descriptions and images of maps and travel accounts relating to Latin America.
The results can be seen at the <A
href="http://minerva.akros.it/sebina/opac/acuba/fFormSelezione?lingua.x=ing"
target=_blank>search page</A> (also in <A
href="http://minerva.akros.it/sebina/opac/acuba/fFormSelezione?lingua.x=ita"
target=_blank>Italian</A>). Access to the much enlarged, but only medium
resolution, images is via a 'subject' [i.e. geographical area] option, spread
over many screens; or enter 'cartografia' into 'Word search' (which produced
descriptions of 228 items - those with a globe symbol having an image).
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<A name=lewis></A><A href="http://lewisclark.geog.missouri.edu/index.shtml"
target=_blank>Lewis and Clark Historic Landscape Project</A>
<P>"This website serves geographical information and maps that are products of
the LEWIS AND CLARK HISTORIC LANDSCAPE PROJECT that has been conducted at the
Geographic Resources Center (GRC), Department of Geography, University of
Missouri in partnership with the Missouri State Archives, Office of the Missouri
Secretary of State. With the primary goals to geo-reference, digitize, and map
all of the retrievable information from the Lewis and Clark journals and the
18th and 19th-century land survey notes along the Big River Corridors of the
state of Missouri, this effort should serve as a significant educational
contribution to the national commemoration of the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial
(2003-2006)." 18th and 19th century maps are expected. The site includes a page
of links to other Lewis & Clark sites.
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<A name=europe></A><A href="http://www.geog.port.ac.uk/hist-bound/"
target=_blank>Mapping Europe's Historic Boundaries and Borders</A>
<P>Concerned with mapping the changing boundaries of administrative units, from
parishes and communes up to nations and empires, as a framework for studying the
European past.
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<A name=med></A><A href="http://www.aiys.org/aodl/public/medmaps/"
target=_blank>Mapping Mediterranean Lands</A>
<P>"The Digital Library for International Research, under the aegis of the
Council of American Overseas Research Centers aims to identify, catalogue,
conserve, and make electronically accessible important early maps and related
information as well as unique maps from archaeological excavation and
exploration by American overseas research centers around the Mediterranean as
well as those in other areas with related materials. The multi-phase project
will result in a fully searchable web-based catalog of these materials enriched
with selected digitized images and texts".
<P>"Ultimately the International Research Maps Database will contain
bibliographic records and graphical images for the most important maps from the
various collections of the American Overseas Research Centers, representing
approximately 5,000 unique maps. To date, we have surveyed over 3,000 maps from
centers in the Mediterranean area. Brief inventories and selected digital maps
are currently available through the Mapping Mediterranean Lands project" (March
2005). For a selection of images see <A
href="http://www.aiys.org/aodl/public/medmaps/Digital_Maps_MEDMAPS_project.htm"
target=_blank>Digital Maps from the Mapping Mediterranean Lands Project</A>; and
also <A
href="http://www.aiys.org/aodl/public/medmaps/MedMaps_Brief_Inventories.php"
target=_blank>Brief Inventories</A> from the participating libraries.
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<A name=gough></A><A href="http://www.qub.ac.uk/urban_mapping/gough_map/"
target=_blank>Mapping the Realm: English cartographic constructions of
fourteenth-century Britain</A> [about the Gough Map]
<P>"'Mapping the realm’ is a project funded by the British Academy to create an
interactive online version of the celebrated medieval ‘Gough Map’ of Great
Britain. The original map is held in the Bodleian Library in Oxford. It probably
dates from the fourteenth century but neither the identity of its author or its
exact origins are known...The project seeks to find out more about this
enigmatic map. Using a scan of the original, undertaken by DigiData
Technologies...GIS makes it possible to study the map’s content and assess how
it was made, who made it, and what it was made for - all questions yet to be
resolved." Queen’s University, Belfast in collaboration with the Bodleian
Library. See <A href="http://www.oxfordtoday.ox.ac.uk/2005-06/v18n2/08.shtml"
target=_blank>'Britain's first road map'</A> (Nick Millea on this project, in
the Hilary 2006 issue of the Oxford University Alumni magazine, <I>Oxford
Today</I>).
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<A name=world></A><A href="http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/mapworld/index.html"
target=_blank>Mapping the World</A>
<P>Seven UK libraries, led by the Bodleian (Oxford), will convert their
catalogue cards for post-1850 overseas mapping into a common database. Series
mapping will be treated at series level. The resulting records will be mounted
on COPAC, the online catalogue of <A href="http://www.curl.ac.uk/"
target=_blank>CURL</A>, the Consortium of University Research Libraries.
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<A name=memory></A><A
href="http://www.geheugenvannederland.nl/gvnnl/index.cfm">Memory of the
Netherlands Project (‘Het Geheugen van Nederland’)</A>
<P>"The Memory contains images and texts from the often hidden collections of
Dutch cultural institutions." Use the <A
href="http://www.geheugenvannederland.nl/gvn/search/search_form.xsp"
target=_blank>Advanced Search</A> to identify and select the various
cartographic elements [as at December 2004]: ‘Atlassen uit het
Scheepvaartmuseum’ (the Atlas Van Loon and the expanded version of van Keulen’s
<I>Nieuwe Lichtende Zee-Fakkel</I>), 'Atlassen’ (the Atlas Van der Hagen and the
Atlas Beudeker), and ‘Suriname in kaart gebracht’.
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<A name=nolli></A><A href="http://nolli.uoregon.edu/preface.html"
target=_blank>Nolli map of Rome</A>
<P>A Flash-based, high resolution, interactive version of the 1748 Nolli map of
Rome (176 x 208 cm when joined), supported by research papers. "Using the Map
Engine, the user can pan in any direction and zoom in or out from the
macro-scale of the city to the micro-scale of the building. Layers have been
created to focus on particular topics, for example gardens". 1,320 sites are
indexed both by position and by feature type. "In addition the search mechanism
provides annotations for all sites including modern name and location, type,
architect, time period, and references. A simple search will provide results
that match in any of these categories, as well as retrieve entries in the
glossary, bibliography, and any articles that appear on the site". See <
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1019/p25s01-stct.html > 'An ancient map of Rome
that's surprisingly up to date' (by Jim Regan in the Christian Science Monitor,
19 October 2005).
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<A name=parish></A><A
href="http://www.lands.nsw.gov.au/OnlineServices/ParishMaps/default.htm"
target=_blank>The [New South Wales] Parish Map Preservation Project</A>
<P>"The State's historical, and eventually current Parish, Town, County and
Municipal maps are being collected and digitally photographed in District Office
sets" by the Department of Lands, New South Wales. All the 35,000 currently
available Historical editions of the parish maps can be found as <A
href="http://www.lands.nsw.gov.au/MapsAndPhotos/ParishMaps/default.htm?EMEDIA_TYPE=1"
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of Space and Forms of Mappings. From Medieval Cosmography to Renaissance
Cartography: Towards a New Reading of Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century
Cartography</a><p>
A collaboration between the Science Museum, Florence and the Geography
Department of the University of Wisconsin (Madison), this 'aims to study
early modern perception of space and mapping, commencing from
the provision of a new interpretation of early Modern cartography
through the digitalisation and the re-projection of the
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<A name=peutinger></A><A href="http://www.unc.edu/awmc/rttpeut.html"
target=_blank>A New Edition of Peutinger’s Roman Map: Design, Purpose, and
Impact</A>
<P>Measuring 22 x 1 foot in size, it is "seemingly a mediaeval copy of a Roman
original". "Scanned images and digitization [will] enable me to offer a detailed
entry for every physical feature, route stretch, and name marked (several
thousand in all), as well as to deconstruct the cartographic production process
and successive copyists’ changes" (Richard Talbert, Ancient World Mapping
Center, July 2004).
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<A name=pfyffer></A><A
href="http://www.geod.ethz.ch/p02/projects/pfyffer/pfyffer.html"
target=_blank>Pfyffer. 3D Reconstruction and Evaluation of a Historical Relief
Model of Switzerland (1762-1786)</A>
<P>A scientific evaluation by Jana Niederöst, of the Institute of Geodesy and
Photogrammetry of the ETH in Zurich, of Franz Ludwig Pfyffer's relief model of
Central Switzerland. Covering about one tenth of the country, this is the oldest
preserved, large relief model of Switzerland
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<A name=pictures></A><A href="http://www.dur.ac.uk/picturesinprint/"
target=_blank>Pictures in Print</A>
<P>"A collaborative project sponsored by the British Library Co-operation and
Partnership Programme to create a union catalogue, with viewable images, of
printed maps and topographical prints of County Durham created before 1860 held
by Durham University Library, Durham County Library, Durham Cathedral Library
and the Bowes Museum."
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<A name=pont></A><A href="http://www.nls.uk/pont/index.html"
target=_blank>Project Pont</A>
<P>Maps of Scotland produced by Timothy Pont (c.1583-96) in the National Library
of Scotland - their digitisation and study. The project is now finished but the
results of the work remain available. See also the comments (under
'Functionality') on <A
href="http://www.maphistory.info/aboutim.html#hosts">About the listing of early
map image sites on the web</A>.
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<A name=ptolemaios></A><A href="http://www.ptolemaios.unibe.ch/"
target=_blank>Ptolemaios-Forschungsstelle</A>
<P>A project, by the Institute of Classical Philology in Bern, to produce a new
critical edition of the Greek text of the Geographia and its maps. Its duration
is April 2001-December 2006. "Die Ptolemaios-Forschungsstelle in Bern, die dem
Institut für Klassische Philologie der Universität Bern angegliedert ist, hat
sich zum Ziel gesetzt, eine zweisprachige Neuausgabe der Geographie des Klaudios
Ptolemaios in die Wege zu leiten. Vorgesehen ist eine Neubearbeitung des seit
1843/45 nie mehr vollständig redigierten griechischen Textes unter
Berücksichtigung der 1930 wiederentdeckten Ptolemaioshandschrift in Istanbul,
eine deutsche Übersetzung sowie eine Umzeichnung der Karten. In einem
Ergänzungsband sollen wesentliche Aspekte wie handschriftliche Überlieferung,
Messmethoden, Gestaltung des Ortskataloges, Wirkungsgeschichte u.a.m. in
einzelnen Kapiteln behandelt werden. Das Projekt wird vom Schweizerischen
Nationalfonds und von der Bernischen Hochschulstiftung unterstützt. Die
Forschungsstelle bemüht sich um internationale und interdisziplinäre
Zusammenarbeit." See report in <I>Cartographica Helvetica</I> 31 (2005) and a
note by Oswald Dreyer-Eimbcke in the <I>IMCOS Journal</I> 104 (Spring 2006)
pp.51, 54.
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<A name=resources></A><A href="http://www.rls.org.uk/" target=_blank>Resources
for Learning in Scotland (RLS)</A>
<P>"A consortium headed by the National Library of Scotland and including the
National Archives of Scotland, the Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network
(SCRAN), and over 100 Scottish archives and libraries, to create digital content
for the study and celebration of social, cultural and industrial heritage in
Scotland, complementary to and integrated with the SCRAN resource base." The
National Library alone plans to scan over 1000 maps. Maps can be searched for,
but only small, low resolution images are available to non-subscribers.
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<A name=stanford></A>Stanford Geological Survey Maps and Field Notebooks
<P>Notice included in the September 2001 issue of the WAML <A
href="http://www.waml.org/nn/nn0901.html#onetwo" target=_blank><I>News &
Notes</I></A>: Branner Earth Sciences Library & Map Collections, of the
Stanford University Libraries, is pleased to announce the receipt of a grant
through the California State Library to scan and catalog the maps and field
notebooks of the Stanford Geological Survey from 1897 to the present. This two
year project will be funded jointly by funds from the Library Services and
Technology Act (LSTA), the School of Earth Sciences at Stanford, and the
Stanford University Libraries.
<P>The collection includes approximately 5,000 manuscript items that primarily
cover portions of the state of California. As the maps and field notebooks are
held exclusively at Branner Library, they are a unique resource for the people
of the state of California and across the county. The scanned maps and field
notebooks, as well as the accompanying metadata, will ultimately be available to
all for free over the Web. Although it is expected that the project will take
two years to complete, the Web site will be fully functional after the first
year with a goal of 500 images and records available to view.
<P>For more information contact: Julie Sweetkind-Singer, GIS & Map Librarian
< sweetkind(at)stanford.edu > [NB. You need to replace (at) with the @
symbol].
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<A name=time></A><A href="http://www.timemap.net/" target=_blank>TimeMap:
Time-based Interactive Mapping</A>
<P>"TimeMap TMJava is a novel mapping applet which generates complete
interactive maps with a few simple lines of html. It provides a way of easily
enriching web pages with historical or contemporary information that goes far
beyond static jpg map images". The University of Sydney.
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<A name=ukborders></A><A href="http://edina.ac.uk/ukborders/index.shtml"
target=_blank>UKBORDERS On-Line Digital Boundary Data (Edinburgh Univ.)</A>
<P>'United Kingdom Boundary Outline and Reference Database for Education and
Research Study'. This a web-based Interface that provides digitised boundary
datasets of the UK, available in many GIS formats (MapInfo MIF/MID, ArcView
Shape, Arc/Info Export and several others), for users to download.
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<A name=serial></A><A
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target=_blank>U.S. Serial Set Maps</A>
<P>"The University of Maryland and LexisNexis U.S., a leading provider of news,
business and legal information services, announced an alliance today aimed at
preserving images of the U.S. Serial Set Maps while making the maps easily
accessible and searchable online.
<P>The U.S. Serial Set is a vast historical resource that contains an ongoing
collection of U.S. Government publications compiled under a directive of
Congress, and consequently traces virtually all aspects of American history,
including trade and commerce, military history, geography, scientific
exploration, and anthropology.
<P>Already, LexisNexis® has digitized nearly the entire U.S. Serial Set
collection spanning 1789-1969, including 325,000 documents drawn from nearly
13,000 volumes, 52,000 maps, and the American State Papers.
<P>This new project will enhance the quality of the maps section. The University
of Maryland is providing the original maps so LexisNexis can rescan the
collection into high-resolution digital images in color and black and white.
Current scans taken from microfiche cannot provide the color or the same clarity
as a scan from the original maps". [Press release June 27, 2005]. See also the
Library of Congress note on the <A
href="http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwss.html" target=_blank>U.S. Serial
Set</A>.
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<A name=upjohn></A><A href="http://www.wmich.edu/wmu/news/2005/10/038.html"
target=_blank>W.E. Upjohn Center for the Study of Geographical Change</A>
<P>The Center was established at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, in
October 2005. "The facility, the only one of its kind in the world, will use the
latest technology to preserve and create enhanced digital versions of maps and
aerial photography... In many cases, the original paper and photographic
versions of these documents are deteriorating and might be lost if not preserved
in electronic form... unlimited access via the Web... At the same time that maps
and aerial photographs are being preserved in digital form, they will be
electronically catalogued and cross-referenced, making it possible for the first
time to easily search for desired materials...With digitization of flat
topographical maps we will be able to create three-dimensional computer
representations down to a single part of one county in any state in any year in
which a map was made. We will begin with our own country, but the ultimate scope
of this project is global, and maps never stop changing." [Extracts from the
Press Release, 17 October 2005 ' Unique research center established with $4
million gift'.]
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