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Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:20:36 -0800 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:20:36 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/71281/Mostly%2Dblue <a href="http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9931412-7.html">Google to map the oceans.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.71281 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:20:36 -0800 bathymetry cartography geography imaging mapping maps ocean photos sea Y'ha-nthlei Artw http://www.metafilter.com/66930/Kadath%2Din%2Dthe%2DCold%2DWaste <a href="http://lima.usgs.gov/view_lima.php">Landsat Image Mosaic Of Antarctica</a> UK and US researchers peice together <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7115012.stm">the most detailed map of Antarctica yet</a>, searching through years of data to find cloud free images. tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.66930 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:13:02 -0800 Antarctic Antarctica cartography Cold Ice Landsat Map Mapping maps photography photos polar pole Satellite Science Shoggoth snow south southpole Artw http://www.metafilter.com/61983/Historic%2Dmaps%2Dand%2Dphotos%2Dof%2DAfrica Northwestern University hosts a fine collection of <a href="http://www.library.northwestern.edu/africana/winterton/index.html">historic East African photographs</a>, viewable as <a href="http://www.library.northwestern.edu/africana/winterton/sampleimages/photographs/index.html">sample sets</a> or in their <a href="http://www.library.northwestern.edu/africana/winterton/sampleimages/albumscans/index.html">original photo-albums</a> <small>(requires flash)</small>. But the real prize is their wonderful collection of <a href="http://fedora.library.northwestern.edu/fedora/get/inu:AfriMapsXSL/inu:NWUCollectionBDef/getNUSearch?NUSEARCH_SORTBY=title&NUSEARCH_QUERY=&NUSEARCH_TYPE=browse&NUSEARCH_START=0&CLEAR_CACHE=yes">113 historic maps of Africa</a>, which are zoomable to <a href="http://ansel.library.northwestern.edu/ImageServer/index.jsp?action=thumbclick&res=3&x=3382&y=2538&viewheight=512&viewwidth=512&rotation=0&fullimage=false&rootelement=&stylesheetpath=&useplugin=false&title=A+new+&filename=%2Fdimages%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fafrmaps%2Finu-afrmap-4283019-recto-ah.jp2&returnurl=&imgclickx=4406&imgclicky=3562&vpContentsOffsetX=0&vpContentsOffsetY=0&requestId=7&previousRes=3&+accurate+map+of+Negroland%FD=&thumbnailActionSelect=thumbclick&imageActionSelect=imageclick%2Czoomin&thumbnail.x=39&thumbnail.y=58">incredible detail</a>, also <a href="http://ansel.library.northwestern.edu/ImageServer/index.jsp?action=thumbclick&res=3&x=8907&y=1828&viewheight=512&viewwidth=512&rotation=0&fullimage=false&rootelement=&stylesheetpath=&useplugin=false&title=Abissinorum+Sive&filename=%2Fdimages%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fafrmaps%2Finu-afrmap-3805126-recto-ah.jp2&returnurl=&imgclickx=9931&imgclicky=2852&vpContentsOffsetX=0&vpContentsOffsetY=0&requestId=11&previousRes=3&thumbnailActionSelect=thumbclick&imageActionSelect=imageclick%2Czoomin&thumbnail.x=98&thumbnail.y=32">1</a>, <a href="http://ansel.library.northwestern.edu/ImageServer/index.jsp?action=thumbclick&res=4&x=5103&y=2756&viewheight=512&viewwidth=512&rotation=0&fullimage=false&rootelement=&stylesheetpath=&useplugin=false&title=Africae+nova+descriptio&filename=%2Fdimages%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fafrmaps%2Finu-afrmap-3805125-sheet1-recto-ah.jp2&returnurl=&imgclickx=7151&imgclicky=4804&vpContentsOffsetX=0&vpContentsOffsetY=0&requestId=6&previousRes=3&thumbnailActionSelect=thumbclick&imageActionSelect=imageclick%2Czoomin&thumbnail.x=72&thumbnail.y=52">2</a>, <a href="http://ansel.library.northwestern.edu/ImageServer/index.jsp?action=thumbclick&res=3&x=6388&y=784&viewheight=512&viewwidth=512&rotation=0&fullimage=false&rootelement=&stylesheetpath=&useplugin=false&title=Barbaria+%282+maps%29&filename=%2Fdimages%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fafrmaps%2Finu-afrmap-4168363-recto-ah.jp2&returnurl=&imgclickx=7412&imgclicky=1808&vpContentsOffsetX=0&vpContentsOffsetY=0&requestId=4&previousRes=4&thumbnailActionSelect=thumbclick&imageActionSelect=imageclick%2Czoomin&thumbnail.x=84&thumbnail.y=62">3</a>. <small> <a href="http://elburlador.blogspot.com/">via</a></small> tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.61983 Mon, 11 Jun 2007 18:26:14 -0800 Africa AfricanHistory cartography historicmaps historicphotographs History maps photographs photos Rumple http://www.metafilter.com/26373/Liberia <a href="http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/libhtml/libhome.html">Maps of Liberia</a> , 1830-1879. The American Colonization Society was founded in 1817 to resettle free black Americans in West Africa. Here's <a href="http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam003.html">a brief history of the American Colonization Society</a>, with images of places, currency, letters etc.<br><a href="http://yekepa.digitalfarmers.com/">The Yekepa Memory Project</a> includes materials about Yekepa, Liberia, such as <a href="http://yekepa.digitalfarmers.com/post_card_t.court.shtml">postcards</a> and <a href="http://yekepa.digitalfarmers.com/stamps.shtml">stamps.</a><br>Related :- <a href="http://allafrica.com/photoessay/liberia/">Liberia, June 1999 photoessay.</a><br>Also of interest :- <a href="http://home.planet.nl/~kreke003/gnexpo.htm">a collection of photos of neighbouring Guinea, 1905.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.26373 Fri, 13 Jun 2003 01:40:40 -0800 history liberia maps photos plep