website for sharing maps created with the GMapCreator software, released by CASA. The maps themselves are not stored on the server -- only a link to another site on the Internet where the map is published. When maps are shared, information about what the map is and what it shows is entered by the owner and this is stored on the server along with the link to where the map is published. The raw data is never stored on the Internet as the maps comprise the pre-rendered tiles made by the GMapCreator, so this is a safe way of sharing a map without giving away the raw data used to create it. MapTube is a product of the work undertaken by the Geographic Virtual Urban Environments (GeoVUE) team based at University College London's Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA). GeoVUE is a research Node of the National Centre for e-Social Science (NCeSS). NCeSS (http://www.ncess.ac.uk/) is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
Nearly 90,000 high resolution scans of the more than 200,000 historical USGS topographic maps, some dating as far back as 1884, are now available on-line from the US Geological Survey. The Historical Topographic Map Collection includes published U.S. topographic maps of all scales and editions, and are offered as a georeferenced digital download or as a printed copy from the USGS Store.
O Instituto Geográfico Português (IGP), integrado no Ministério do Ambiente, do Ordenamento do Território e do Desenvolvimento Regional, é o organismo responsável pela execução da política de informação geográfica.
GDAL - Geospatial Data Abstraction Library Select language: [English][Russian][Portuguese][French/Francais] GDAL is a translator library for raster geospatial data formats that is released under an X/MIT style Open Source license by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. As a library, it presents a single abstract data model to the calling application for all supported formats. It also comes with a variety of useful commandline utilities for data translation and processing. The NEWS page describes the November 2009 GDAL/OGR 1.6.3 release.
The international quarterly e-journal on sciences and technologies affined to history of cartography and maps.
Principal aim of the journal is: To couple issues on history of cartography and maps with a variety of possibilities offered by the new digital information and communication technologies. To bring together, in harmonic convergence, historians of cartography and maps, cartography scholars and experts in new digital cartographic technologies in order to create a common space of research targeting at the broadening of cartographic and map history access and expertise.
This journal is a pluralist peer reviewed international journal which does not obey any particular ideological, theoretical or methodological approach in dealing with humanistic, artistic, scientific and technological issues related to map history and cartographic heritage in the large.