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Digital Atlas of Historical County Boundaries
Thanks very much to DK of the Newberry Library, who was kind enough to drop me a note about the recently-completed Digital Atlas of Historical County Boundaries from the Newberry Library. This atlas is...
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550+ New Maps from David Rumsey
Still catching up — the David Rumsey Map Collection announced last month that it has added over 550 new maps to its online collection. You can get a list of all the new maps here. A nav on the right...
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Google Earth’s Got a New Web Site
With Google Instant taking up all the search nerd bandwidth on the Internet last week, you’d think Google didn’t announce anything else. But it did. Google noted last week that it had launched a new...
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NOAA Creates Collection of Civil War Nautical Charts
The NOAA announced last week the release of “Charting a More Perfect Union,” a collection of over 400 documents including Civil War-era maps and nautical charts, and annual summaries of the US Coast...
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Maps, Yahoo, Rhode Island, More: Morning Buzz, July 17, 2012
A huge map digitization project is nearly finished. “The United States Geological Survey has nearly completed its project to digitize over 200,000 topographical maps and create a free, searchable...
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Theatre, New Search Engines, Maps, Real-Time Subtitle Translation, More:...
Birmingham Rep is getting a digital archive: “The REP 100 website – http://www.rep100.org – will contain more than 3,000 records of The REP’s historic productions – including photographs, letters,...
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iOS, Boxing, Nuremberg, More: Sunday Buzz, February 23, 2014
GMail is giving promotional e-mails a more distinctive unsubscribe link. More Google: Chrome update has been released, and it has several security fixes, so please update. More security: apparently...
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RPI, Dropbox, Mapping, More: Sunday Afternoon Buzz, March 2, 2014
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has digitized its newspaper archives. “Issues of The Poly from 1885 to 1976 can be searched online by anyone. An earlier iteration of The Poly that only lasted for one...
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Minecraft, Synthetic Biology, 3D Fossils, More: Friday Morning Buzz, May 9, 2014
Under development: a database for synthetic biologists. (I know, that sounds weird.) “For her project, called Synthetic Biology at ASU (SB.ASU), [Karmella] Haynes will collaborate with Catherine...
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Why Aren’t We Talking About Google Maps?
There’s been a lot of controversy and discussion – there is still a lot of controversy and discussion – about Google’s search results. Google does not disclose the algorithm that decides its search...
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