Your input is needed on a proposal to reclassify 31 “cartographic phantoms” found on maps of Wisconsin.
Identifying Wisconsin’s Cartographic Phantoms
March 23, 2023
Tagged: Historic
History of Cartography recognized in Wisconsin News
October 29, 2021
How long does it take to tell the story of maps and mappers from prehistoric times to the present? As it turns out, approximately forty years. Inside UW recently published a celebratory article documenting the …
There’s No There There! (Part 2)
July 8, 2021
Don’t visit these Dane County locations if you’re hoping to fill up your tank or get a cappuccino.
There’s No There There! (Part 1)
July 1, 2021
Don’t visit these Dane County locations if you’re hoping to fill up your tank or get a cappuccino.
How Wisconsin’s Counties Got Their Shapes
May 4, 2021
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.
Time Travel on your Smartphone
April 29, 2021
You can use historic maps and a simple app to explore the past using your smartphone.
History of Cartography Project Launches New Video Series
April 12, 2021
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”).
Madison, Wisconsin: A View from the Eighteen Nineties
December 16, 2020
View an interactive photographic panorama of Madison from the late 1890s taken from the Capitol dome.
Conservation completed for Science Hall’s oldest relief model
November 26, 2019
The oldest relief model in Science Hall, Edwin Howell’s 1875 “Grand Canyon of the Colorado and Southern Cliffs of Utah,” has been restored using conservation techniques.
Wisconsin Historic Aerial Imagery Finder
April 18, 2018
The WHAIFinder (pronounced “WAY-finder”) digital archive of historic aerial imagery provides quick and easy access to over 38,000 digital aerial photographs covering the entire state of Wisconsin.