Category Archives: maps

Google Maps Rumsey Historical Maps

August 5, 2009 – 8:33 am

nbsp;http://www.davidrumsey.com/gmaps.html
David Rumsey is one of the world’s great map collectors, and he has been very generous by sharing his treasures via the David Rumsey Map Collection website. Recently, Rumsey has selected 120 historical maps from his collection to link up with data from Google Maps and Google Earth. These maps are tremendous repositories of historical [...]

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Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection

November 24, 2008 – 7:11 am

nbsp;http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/
The Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection at the University of Texas at Austin has had an impressive online presence for many years. Geographers, historians, and others who enjoy and use maps will find much to admire and enjoy on this site. Perhaps one of the best features here is the “Online Maps of Current Interest”. It’s [...]

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Antique Maps

November 17, 2008 – 7:14 am

nbsp;http://lbxml.ust.hk/mp/main.html
Created by the Special Collections Department at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Library, this fine collection of digitized antique maps will pique the interest of geographers and historians alike. The collection contains over 230 maps, charts, pictures, books, and complete atlases produced by European cartographers from the 16th to the 19th centuries. [...]

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Crace Collection of Maps of London

November 3, 2008 – 9:10 am

nbsp;http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/…
In the eighteenth century, wise sage and journalist Samuel Johnson opined that when one was tired of London, they were in fact tired of life. Well, the same might be said for this exuberant and delightful website, and it is doubtful that visitors will be tired of its fine collection of London maps even after [...]

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Historical digitized maps of the Netherlands East-Indies, Suriname, Dutch Antilles (ca. 1850 – 1950)

October 6, 2008 – 9:32 am

nbsp;http://testbiblio.kit.nl/biblio_smartsit…
KIT has digitized its remarkable historical map collection and made it available online.
One of the largest collections of maps of the former Dutch colonies is thereby accessible via Internet for scientists,
cartographers and other interested parties in the Netherlands and abroad.

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