The Chicago Urban Heritage Project​ is filling in blanks for the history of entire neighborhoods and Chicago as a whole, ...

About the book: This book illustrates the first connection between the map user community and the developers of digital map processing technologies by providing several applications, challenges, and ...

Google Maps' Street View is 15 years old today, and to celebrate, Google is rolling out the ability to view historical imagery when using the service on iOS and Android. When in Street View mode, ...

While the history-stuffed Othmer Library has been closed to researchers during the pandemic, lovers of the borough have a new reason to rejoice with the launch of Brooklyn Historical Society’s map ...

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The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded the University of Chicago Library, in partnership with the Newberry Library and the Chicago History Museum, a grant to digitize historical maps of ...

The Summit Historical Society has launched a project to digitize the historic maps in its collection. Summit Historical Society director Jordan Bennett said Wednesday, Feb. 5, that the nonprofit has ...

Many locals have never laid eyes on the historic maps of North Carolina stored at the Register of Deeds office, some of which date back to the 1800s. According to Charles Gilliam, "These maps have ...

When Christopher Columbus first set foot in what's now the Bahamas, it was the lucky sum of a 1,400-year-old cartographical error and Columbus's own miscalculations ...