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From an Article By Rossella Lorenzi, Discovery News A new internet platform has been launched today to rescue cultural heritage sites on the verge of being irremediably lost, said Global Heritage Fund, a California-based nonprofit organization that focuses on historical preservation. Called Global Heritage Network (GHN), the platform is the first early warning and threat […]
From a WSJ Article: For consumers, the just-launched IHeartNYMuseums.com collects the sometimes elusive information on free-admission times at more than 100 museums in New York City in one location. The website also lists regular hours, fees and locations. For arts providers, on the other hand, there is Battery Dance Company’s Cultural Diplomacy Toolkit, a project […]
From an Ordnance Survey Announcement (via GISUser.com) 100 stunning aerial images which form part of an extraordinary outdoor exhibition can now be viewed on a new interactive map created using Ordnance Survey data. In September 2010 Michael Palin, President of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) officially opened the Britain from the Air street gallery […]
From the Map Hompage: OCHA, UNOSAT and NetHope have been collaborating with the Volunteer Technical Community (VTC) specifically CrisisMappers, Crisis Commons, Open Street Map, and the Google Crisis Response Team over the past week. The CrisisMappers Standby Task Force has been undertaking a mapping of social media, news reports and official situation reports from within […]
New street level crime website proves popular The latest set of street level crime and anti-social behaviour data, alongside updated local policing information, is now available to view. The new information gives the public the power to look back and see the crimes and incidents of anti-social behaviour that have happened on or near their […]
U.S. Coast Survey Civil War Map Among First to Visualize Slavery, Influence Lincoln’s Strategy It isn’t often that a map visually displays a moral issue facing a divided nation and then affects a President’s response. Yet nearly 150 years ago, the U.S. Coast Survey — NOAA’s predecessor organization — produced such a map that, according […]
History + Geography: A New Online Resource Will Launch Next Week at National Library of Scotland
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|From the Visualising Urban Geographies Project Web Site: The new online resources [set to debut next week] were created by the Visualising Urban Geographies project. This collaborative project between the University of Edinburgh and National Library of Scotland has brought together sets of historical maps, census and address-based information to allow new ways of understanding […]
From an NTIA Announcement: The National Broadband Map — the first public, searchable nationwide map of broadband Internet availability — and the results of a new nationwide survey on broadband adoption [was released on February 17, 2011]. The National Broadband Map…is an unprecedented searchable database of information on high-speed Internet access. NTIA created the National […]