PCL Map Collection

Check out these screenshots from the early days of the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection website! Not only can you see how much web design has changed, but you can also see what was going in the world at the time. The PCL Map Collection turns 25 years old this year and we're celebrating by raising money to make it more dynamic and sustainable. Follow the link below to make a donation today. Thank you!

https://hornraiser.utexas.edu/pclmaps25

The PCL Map Collection website turns 25 this year! Help us celebrate by donating today. The first $25 donations are being matched!

Mapping the Future Help HornRaiser raise $25,000 for the project: Mapping the Future. Your gift will make a difference!

We're excited about all of the projects we'll be working on in the coming year! One is adding maps to the PCL and the UT Libraries' new Collections portal! Read more about this exciting new resource here. https://www.lib.utexas.edu/about/news/libraries-launch-access-tool-digital-collections

Check out the AMAZING geology made by Nancy Elder, a retired UT Libraries Biosciences Librarian. We love it!

Please join us and Benson Latin American Collection for a Disaster Relief Mapathon.

UT College of Liberal Arts: In the wake of natural disasters in Mexico and the Caribbean, relief organizations have requested help locating vulnerable sites, and people around the world are using the OpenStreetMap platform to answer the call. In Austin, LLILAS Benson and the University of Texas Libraries have joined libraries…

This is an interesting article about Soviet mapping. And they refer to a Wired article that mentions our Soviet map holdings.

Take Another Look at This Incredibly Detailed Soviet Map of Washington, D.C. — War Is Boring The USSR’s mapmakers plotted America’s capital down to the last pumping station

More maps in the news.

"Most maps aren't to get from point A to point B. Most maps are about how we as a civilization, as different cultures, perceive our lives in this box that we live in."
-John Hessler, a mapkeeper at the Library of Congress's Madison Building
http://n.pr/1T4OXPD

'Map' Is An Exquisite Record Of The Miles — And The Millennia Map: Exploring the World is a new collection of maps, selected by an international panel of cartographers, academics and collectors, spanning everything from the Aztecs to modern digital imaging.

"Worlds Revealed," a new Library of Congress blog created in November, will feature some of the more vintage maps from the LoC archive. The maps, dating back as early as the 1500s, show a time when cartographers used their own artistic stroke to illustrate the world, including cities, railroads, national parks -- even the cosmos.

"With this blog, we invite you to broaden your conception of what a map is. We will highlight cartographic objects from our collections that sometimes go beyond what usually ends up in exhibits and in textbooks and bring to the forefront uncataloged objects that have never before been placed online. As our collections continue to grow and encompass new formats, such as GIS data and new digital mapping tools, we want share our latest finds and acquisitions with you."

They Don't Make Maps Like this Anymore

Thanks to Natalie Moore for bringing this very relevant example of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team's great work to our attention.

Open-Source Maps Help Guide Nepalese Earthquake Relief A crucial need in any rescue effort — perhaps just as important to saving lives as medical supplies, food, and tents — is an up-to-date map that humanitarian workers can use to more efficiently nav...

Google Maps just got a lot more fun!

Google #PacMaps Nom nom nom-Join the game!

It at once a dream and nightmare come true!

How a Cache of Thousands of Hoarded Maps Transformed L.A.'s Library One man's astounding lifelong collection came close to being destroyed.

I loved hearing a story about this self-taught cartographer and his awesome maps. Listen to the story and stop by the Map Collection to see the maps in person. http://ow.ly/yrPYQ

The Map Of Native American Tribes You've Never Seen Before Aaron Carapella couldn't find a map showing the original names and locations of Native American tribes as they existed before contact with...