This might be of interest: > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [agade] WEBS: Digitized maps > Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 10:29:22 -0500 > From: Jack Sasson <[email protected]> > Reply-To: Jack Sasson <[email protected]> > To: The Agade mailing list. <[email protected]> > > >From <http://www.nypl.org/blog/2014/03/28/open-access-maps?sf2438789=1>: > ======================================== > > Open Access Maps at NYPLby Matt Knutzen, Stephen A. Schwarzman > Building, Map DivisionMarch 28, 2014 > > The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division is very proud to > announce the release of more than 20,000 cartographic works as high > resolution downloads. We believe these maps have no known US copyright > restrictions.* To the extent that some jurisdictions grant NYPL an > additional copyright in the digital reproductions of these maps, NYPL > is distributing these images under a Creative Commons CC0 1.0 > Universal Public Domain Dedication. The maps can be viewed through the > New York Public Library's Digital Collections page, and downloaded > (!), through the Map Warper. First, create an account, then click a > map title and go. Here's a primer and more extended blog post on the > warper. > > Plan of Bay Ridge Parkway, Olmsted, Olmsted & Eliot Landscape > Architects, 1895What's this all mean? > > It means you can have the maps, all of them if you want, for free, in > high resolution.We've scanned them to enable their use in the broadest > possible ways by the largest number of people. > > Though not required, if you'd like to credit the New York Public > Library, please use the following text "From The Lionel Pincus & > Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library." Doing so > helps us track what happens when we release collections like this to > the public for free under really relaxed and open terms. We believe > our collections inspire all kinds of creativity, innovation and > discovery, things the NYPL holds very dear. > > Sanitary and social chart of the Fourth Ward of the City of New York, > to accompany a report of the 4th Sanitary Inspection District. 1864A > little background on how we got here... We've been scanning maps for > about 15 years, both as part of the NYPL's general work but mostly > through grant funded projects like the 2001National Endowment for the > Humanities (NEH) fundedAmerican Shores: Maps of the MidAtlantic to > 1850, the 2004 Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)funded > Building a Globally Distributed Historical Sheet Map Set and the 2010 > NEH funded New York City Historical GIS. > > Through these projects, we've built up a great collection of: 1,100 > maps of the Mid-Atlantic United States and cities from the 16th to > 19th centuries, mostly drawn from the Lawrence H. Slaughter > Collection; a detailed collection of more than 700 topographic maps of > the Austro-Hungarian empire created between 1877 and 1914; a > collection of 2,800 maps from state, county and city atlases (mostly > New York and New Jersey); a huge collection of more than 10,300 maps > from property, zoning, topographic, but mostly fire insurance atlases > of New York City dating from 1852 to 1922; and an incredibly diverse > collection of more than 1,000 maps of New York City, its boroughs and > neighborhoods, dating from 1660 to 1922, which detail transportation, > vice, real estate development, urban renewal, industrial development > and pollution, political geography among many, many other things. > > We in the Map Division are all very excited about this release and > look forward to seeing these maps in works of art, historical > publications, movies, archaeological reports, novels, environmental > remediation efforts, urban planning studies and more... Enjoy! > > * The maps may be subject to rights of privacy, rights of publicity > and other restrictions. It is your responsibility to make sure that > you respect these rights. >
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