2008-2009 Meetings
The Atlas of Early Printing is a new digital resource for the study of the spread of printing through Europe. It is a map-based visualization of historical data, depicting both geography and time.
For more than a decade, since 1996, James Krokar has been trying to identify and put into their historic context three 1605 Newberry manuscript maps of Ottoman fortresses.
Father of Waters, The Gathering of Waters, The Big Muddy, Ol’ Man River – the Mississippi is America’s main street, celebrated in history, song, story, and maps.
Do you have a particular map or map-related item you wish to share? Curious about what others are collecting? Here’s your opportunity.
Those words, following closely on the heels of his more famous utterance “Make no little plans,” certainly apply to Daniel Burnham’s 1909 Plan of Chicago. The “noble diagrams” that Burnham, Edward Bennett, and their associates prepared one hundred years ago are among the most important maps
Access to quality groceries is a major issue in many Chicago communities. In many areas supermarkets are few and far between, and available stores often have limited variety, especially of fresh fruits and vegetables.
For over twenty years, Dr. Ruth Watson has worked with cartographic ideas and imagery as a major basis for her artwork. From emerging artist projects such as Planetarium at Artspace (Auckland, 1989) to Paradise Now?
The goal of Public Participation GIS (PPGIS) is to erase the GIS digital divide by providing access to geographic information technologies among traditionally marginalized citizens, in order to enable better participation in planning and policy tasks. Over the last decade, PPGIS i
Sam Truett will examine parallel efforts by nations and corporations to transform and control the U.S.-Mexico borderlands at the turn of the century through maps. Focusing on the western borderlands of Arizona, Sonora, New Mexico, and Chihuahua, he will discuss how U.S.