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From OFCOM (UK Telecommunication Regulator): Ofcom has today launched the UK’s first interactive map of fixed broadband, using actual data provided by communications providers about the UK’s broadband infrastructure. Ofcom is required to submit a report on the UK’s communications infrastructure to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport every three years. As […]
Digitized Maps: David Rumsey Map Collection Adds Nearly 1700 Historic Maps and Images
Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Maps, News, Public Libraries
|From a Rumsey Map Collection Blog Post: 1,676 new maps and images have been added to the David Rumsey Map Collection, bringing the online collection to 27,800 maps and images. Included in this addition are 666 images of Pocket Maps, a rare edition of Sanborn’s 1905 Atlas of San Francisco from the S.F. Public Library […]
The Spencer Library at the University of Kansas has digitized and made a collection Sandborn Maps for 241 Kansas towns and cities covering a period from 1883 through the 1930s available online (free). From a KU Libraries Announcement: The Sanborn Map Company, of Pelham, New York, began surveying the business districts of cities and towns […]
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ALA/ALSC Adds Several Sites To Superb "Web Sites for Kids" Collection
Associations and Organizations, Libraries, News, Public Libraries, Resources, Scholastic
|Here’s a List of ALL Sites just added to the collection. Additions Include: Weather Channel Kids – www.theweatherchannelkids.com/ GoGo News – www.gogonews.com/ My Young Child – http://myyoungchild.org/ Neil Gaiman’s MouseCircus – www.mousecircus.com/ Science of Baseball – www.exploratorium.edu/baseball/index.html Study Jams – http://studyjams.scholastic.com/studyjams/index.htm@ From ALA/ALSC (Association of Library Services for Children) Great Web Sites for Kids (GWS) […]
Via WRCB: Tennessee is turning to modern technology to trace the state’s history. On Wednesday the Tennessee Department of State announced an interactive map of events during the Civil War, using the state’s geographic information system or GIS. The first of its kind in the nation, the Tennessee Civil War Geographic Information System (GIS) Survey shows […]
New State Department iPhone App Available Smart Traveler, the official State Department app for U.S. travelers, invites you to see the world with easy access to frequently updated official country information, travel alerts, travel warnings, maps, U.S. embassy locations, and more. With Smart Traveler, you can create personal itineraries, add notes, and organize your trips. […]
A busy week at Bing. A couple of days ago we pointed out that Bing had updated their mobile site (m.bing.com) with several new features including an option to view a map and directions simultaneously. Today, two more new features from Bing. 1. Info Visualization: “New Heat Map Creator app makes heat maps easy” (via […]
AIDSVu: Emory University Launches Interactive Online Map of Impact of HIV at State and County Level
|From an AIDSVu News Release: The Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University launched AIDSVu (www.AIDSVu.org), an interactive online map that, 30 years into the epidemic, provides for the most detailed publicly available view of the number of people living with an HIV diagnosis in the United States by state and county. The data […]
From a Tech Insider/NextGov Report by Joseph Marks: Federal CIO Vivek Kundra’s office has launched an interactive map listing the 137 data centers it has either already closed or plans to close by the end of this year. The map lists data centers’ names and locations — down to geographic coordinates — and whether the […]