plat tracts

1940s Brazos County aerials

Provost Maps

This looks interesting

Women and GIS ESRI

Speaking of maps and ethics:

https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2015/01/06/why-world-maps-are-misleading

And yet, any mapping of humanistic inquiry onto a scientific model would lead to the creation of incomplete maps, of certain lies. One of those lies? If you can't use the scientific method to come to know something, then that something isn't knowledge/true/truth/fact.

L'output impone una scelta tecnologica, quindi non sono opendata

En este sentido, esperaba contribuir a la realización de un ideal de trabajo pluridisciplinario en el cual, retomando los términos de Braudel, el mapa, «instrumento de investigación, indispensable a toda ciencia humana», constituye «la ocasión de una convergencia, de una colaboración entre especialistas» (Braudel, 1958). P.351

This is an interesting demo of several kind of maps available with openstreetmap and LefatLet library

A similar thing happens with streets and roads within London: often main streets don't display their name until you've zoomed in way past it's useful.

Access the collection, Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSi) 19th Century Historical Maps, at https://digital.ucd.ie/view/ucdlib:40377

See "View large scale 19th century Irish town and city maps," at RootsIreland.ie 2016-03-09.

as in Polycentric Maps

My screencst version of Treasure Island: "The Maps of Treasure Island"

http://youtu.be/lG6Riht0a84?hd=1

Mapy do mojej historyApp

Useful introduction to how source maps work. The code for Mozilla's source map library is very readable and an easy way to test this in practice.

Compare this exemplar (from the Library of Congress) to that at Oxford, Bodleian Library.

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to

http://www.uscourts.gov/uscourts/images/CircuitMap.pdf