The Historic County Borders Project digitised the borders of the historic counties of the UK and has made them freely available for public and commercial use.
Contains more than 71 thousand maps and images that span the 16th to the 21st century and illustrate everything from the seven continents, to the entire world and even celestial bodies. The maps and images serve as useful historical and artistic references, offering rare cartographic detail and insight into the visual organization of territories. The exceptionally high-resolution images can be filtered by place, author, and date of creation.
The history of cartography is littered with mistakes, myths and mendacity. From the magnetic mountain at the north pole to Australia’s inland sea, Edward Brooke-Hitching charts five centuries of misrepresentative maps.
In Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), the Inuit people are known for carving portable maps out of driftwood to be used while navigating coastal waters. These pieces, which are small enough to be carried in a mitten, represent coastlines in a continuous line, up one side of the wood and down the other.
Here are resources and information for map cataloging, with links to sources of references and help for the map cataloger, for the general cataloger needing to catalog maps and cartographic materials, and for map librarians or anyone who uses maps for research and instruction.
July 2014 marks the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I. It was during the war that National Geographic Society began producing original maps.
From London's cholera outbreak to the siege of Frankfurt, this article brings you the work of the earliest data gurus, who charted not just geographical details but trends and tragedies in some of the world's cities.