The University of Wisconsin’s History of Cartography Project has been awarded a five-year grant from the National Science Foundation to study the origins and development of modern cartography. The research will facilitate preparation of Cartography in the Nineteenth Century, Volume Five of the groundbreaking History of Cartography series.
Copies of the SCO’s “UW-Madison Then & Now” poster are still available. (Cost is only $10 — makes a great gift.)
The Wisconsin Historical Museum is hosting a map exhibit through November 9, 2013.
Volumes One and Two of The History of Cartography are now freely available online.
Project Manager Greg Allord highlights some interesting Wisconsin connections to a major USGS initiative.
Over 2,800 historic maps of Wisconsin available in GeoPDF format for free.
Find historic maps online through the Wisconsin Historical Society’s new digital collection.
The Wisconsin Historic Aerial Image Finder was officially rolled out at the Wisconsin Land Information Association conference in Madison last week.
An interesting pilot project looks at the feasibility of bringing selected maps from the Wisconsin Land Economic Inventory (a.k.a., the “Bordner Survey”) into Google Earth.
Philanthropist, map collector, cartographer, and technology guru David Rumsey will speak on the UW-Madison campus on May 9th.
