Wisconsin Geospatial News

Google’s My Maps tool is an easy way to make a simple web map. In this posting, My Maps is used to make a web map of unincorporated communities in Kewaunee county.

Wisconsin's county boundaries have attained their current shapes as a result of numerous boundary changes that date back to the formation of Wisconsin Territory in 1836.

You can use historic maps and a simple app to explore the past using your smartphone.

Coordinate transformations will be the prevalent method used to update legacy geospatial data for the modernized National Spatial Reference System.

The History of Cartography Project has launched a new online video series to celebrate publication of "Cartography in the European Enlightenment" (Volume 4 of the "History of Cartography").

Users of the modernized National Spatial Reference System will need to understand the differences between five different types of coordinates.

Thanks to the pandemic, the 2021 Wisconsin Land Information Association conference was forced to "go virtual," like so many other events over the last 12 months.  One upshot of this fact is we pre-recorded all of our presentations for submission to WLIA.

View an interactive photographic panorama of Madison from the late 1890s taken from the Capitol dome.

The National Geodetic Survey is asking surveyors to collect GPS observations to improve the accuracy of the new National Spatial Reference System.

Do you need to know where you are in the Public Land Survey System (PLSS) network?