The HGIS de las Indias project is a system of historic and geographic data of colonial America of 18th. It is based on web services and it is opened to everyone that wants to use the recopile data as well as to add news. For example, at this moment, there is a petition to share demographic data […]
The David Rumsey Map Collection of Stanford University has digitalised recently the worldmap made by Urbano Monte in 1587. In fact, the worldmap is divided in 60 sheets that together make a map more than 3 meters of diameter. It was made from the most recent cartography of that time with a didactical aim. The information is available in diferents […]
CartoMundi is a project developed by the Université d’Aix-Marseille with the aim of acting like a platform where to share ancient cartography. Through agreements, cartographic repositories and archives that have digitalized documentation can use CartoMundi to georeference in a common frame and spread freely. CartoMundi is specially thought to keep cartographic series. Currently it has more than 50.000 references […]
The next December 12, Thursday, it will take place in the Geologic and Cartographic Institut of Catalonia (ICGC), between 09:30 and 12:30, the Journey of presentation about the georeference and 3D modeling of the map of Barcelona plain made by the French army between 1823 and 1827. The Lever-nivelé (1823-1827) encompasses the fortified area of Barcelona and highlights by […]
The National Geographic Institute (IGN) has renovated his web and improved the access to old cartography. There are different types and they can be reached by different ways. The Map library: it allows access to the catalogue of old cartography that it is in the map library of the IGN, most scanned and georeferenced. Some maps can […]
The David Rumsey Map Collection has just published the new version of the new version of the only software Georeferencer, an application developed by Klokan Technologies that allows to assign geographical positions to any image. This version allows to overlap old maps on modern cartography or on other old maps. You can georeference different maps simultaneously, display them in different […]