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The Chicago Urban Heritage Project aims to digitize historic fire insurance maps from Chicago to create an historically accurate and downloadable building footprint data layers. And it’s all led by ...

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INSIDE THE BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY, THAT STORY STRETCHES BACK CENTURIES. MAPS AREN’T JUST STATIC DEPICTIONS OF THE WAY THE WORLD IS, BUT THEY PLAY A REALLY ACTIVE ROLE IN MAKING THE WORLD HAPPEN. FROM ...

Jack Swab does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Physical maps might feel out of date in our smartphone and GPS age but maps aren’t just for navigation. They are windows into history, culture and how we perceive the world. We visit a map library in ...

PORTLAND, Maine — For many of us, GPS has been a game changer - a tap, a voice, a turn-by-turn path, will get you there. But there is something special about a physical map that the GPS in your car or ...