“L’ull del temps” is a tool developed by BetaPortal, of the Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya (ICGC) that presents the territory as it is currently and how it was at 1945 (or 1956 to choose) moving the mouse on the screen. You can change the background order and the year of display of old photographs […]
The Commission about History of Cartography of International Cartographic Association (ICA) has renovated its presence on Internet through its new web: http://history.icaci.org/ It has still parts in development, by it promises to be a valuable source of information.
We have come back from holidays and we need to prepare the next school year, to take the shelved projects and consider them again. A good way to do it is to take a glance at the web Map History / History of Cartography: THE Gateway to the Subject, created and maintained by Tony Campbell. The web works […]
Local Government of Huesca has just published in his web all of its cartographic drawings that made the topographer Dionisio Casañal en 1891 about the city and the municipality. It can be visualised and downloaded the Plano de Huesca in a scale of 1:500 (17 sheets), 1:1.000 (10 sheets) and 1:2.500 (1 sheet), and the Término Municipal de Huesca in a scale of […]
The Basque Country University/Euskal Herriko Unibersitatea (UPV/EHU) has just published, in mob format of Microsoft Access with free access, the Inventario digital de la Cartografía Histórica de Euskadi. The inventory includes 3.391 maps and planes previous to 1900, belonging to 76 national and international archives, which represent everything or a part of the Basque Country territory. The work is the […]
Authorial London is a magnificent example about how it can be used ancient cartography, in this case to show the geographic footprints of writers over maps which are contemporary. It is a project that emerge from English Department of University of Standfort, which started publishing a guide on Internet to follow the life of some London authors and different […]