It just got way, way easier to search and browse the US Geological Survey’s collection of historical topographic maps, thanks to a new online map viewer. These maps—more than 178,000 of them—date back ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Frank and Carol Holcomb at Stephen F. Austin State Park in San Felipe, Texas Image by Texas GLOnews release Texas Land ...

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 ...

The Princeton University Library has completed a multiyear project of digitizing a collection of 19th- and 20th-century maps that illustrate the history and development of communities around New ...

INSIDE THE BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY, THAT STORY STRETCHES BACK CENTURIES. MAPS AREN’T JUST STATIC DEPICTIONS OF THE WAY THE WORLD IS, BUT THEY PLAY A REALLY ACTIVE ROLE IN MAKING THE WORLD HAPPEN. FROM ...

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 ...

Since the 1990s, collector David Rumsey has digitized and made freely available his thousands of historical maps; his site has long been one of the best resources for cartography. While his ...

The Holcomb collection of rare Texas maps, dating to 1513, will be preserved and displayed by the Texas General Land Office.

Images courtesy of the Historic Maps Collection, Princeton University Library With beautiful illustrations and incredible detail, a Princeton University exhibition of maps, engravings and photographs ...

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 ...

An online map portal launched on July 16 by the Brooklyn Historical Society provides access to hundreds of rare Brooklyn maps dating back to the 1700s, giving viewers a look into the borough’s ...