Category — Mapping Software

The theft of rare documents has been taking place for much longer and runs much deeper than the maps recently stolen and recovered at the Spanish National Library.

One hypothesis being explored by police is that a Ministry employee has taken advantage of the poor security in the building to systematically steal books to sell them on the black market.

[tags]maps, map theft, Spanish National Library[/tags]

Various scanned antique maps of Stockholm ranging in years from 1625 to 1922, have been made available to use with Google Earth. Google Earth has previously added added the ability to use maps from the David Ramsey antique map collection as layers. (See previous posts: Google Earth Adds Antique Maps; ABC News on Google Earth’s Antique Maps.

Via: The Map Room and Ogle Earth.

[tags]Antique Maps, Maps of Stockholm, Google Earth[/tags]

Google Earth has added 16 antique maps from the David Rumsey Map Collection. This feature allows you to compare today’s satellite photos with maps of places from approximately a hundred years ago.

To use the feature, download the latest version of Google Earth, then go to Layers/Featured Content/Rumsey Historical Maps.  To enable transparency of the historic map layers, click on the Rumsey Historical Maps folder when viewing a map and a slider bar will appear that will adjust transparency for comparison of old and new maps images. Additional maps will be added in the coming months.

Digitally Distributed Environments did a similar thing some time ago using Google Earth and a 1666 London map by Wenceslaus Hollar.

Via MapHist and IanVisits.

[tags]Antique Maps, Google Earth, Famous Cartographers[/tags]