The Biblioteca Virtual de Defensa has just released a new website about cartography of Cuba, which contains more than 5300 maps, plans and interesting files kept, mostly, at the Archivo General Militar de Madrid. Moreover, there are contributions from the Archivo Cartográfico y de Estudios Geográficos del Centro Geográfico del Ejército and from the Archivo del Museo Naval. Most of this cartography […]
Recently the platform of collaborative projects ComunidadBNE of the National Library of Spain (BNE) has been presented, which allows to participate to someone who is interested in, in labelling, transcription, identification and geolocalization of texts, photos and all kid of documents of its holdings. Between the projects that they are developing robot now highlights the transcription of Descripción geográfica […]
The New Zealander Jean-Baptiste Piggin proposes the project Tabula Peutingeriana Animated Edition, a new interactive visualization in a diagram way of the Tabula Peutingeriana, an itinerary of roman communication net made in the 4th century and we know from medieval copies. In Piggin Macro-Typography blog explains the reasons. It comes down to a destacable effort to analyze in […]
The web Atlas of Barcelona is an interesting example of how take a catalogue thought to be in only in paper to digital world. Specifically, the work is the collection of old cartographic engravings of the city of Barcelona, made and edited by Ramon Soley and distributed by Editorial Mediterrània in two volumes in 1998: Soley, Ramon (1998): […]
Story Maps are a new web resource that combines maps with different information, allowing compound a classic narration, chronologically ordered, with cartographic suppor. In this case, we have used it for a narrative genre with a high level of geographic content: diaries, books or travel chronicle. Two members of the GEHC, Luis Urteaga and Joan Capdevila, with […]
The maps are, among other things, a way of expression that overcomes everything following the communication of geographic information. It has been used as way of propaganda, critic, sarcastic goals or even for describing non geographic concepts as love. In the imagen appears simbolically, as a stronghold, the resistance to a lovely party (link toMatthaeus Seutter map, […]