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Subject: Historic Portuguese military maps
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005
From: Sam Otterstrom <[log in to unmask]>
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From: Jack Owens [[log in to unmask]]
Date sent: 21 Oct 2005

A few months ago, I participated in the international "GIS Planet 2005"
  meeting in Portugal. As its name indicates, the meeting brought
together people from all over the world who used Geographic Information
Systems
(GIS) in their work.

One of the presentations I attended was entitled "Project SIDCARTA: An
information system for the history of Portuguese military cartography."
I was pleased to learn that the Portuguese Military Geographic Institute
will make available online the digital images of the maps in its
historical collection, particularly for the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries. Given the global extent of Portuguese Crown domains, later
converted into colonies, these historic maps provide a rich source for
the history of many world regions during these two centuries.

To find out about the project, go to the web site of the Instituto
Geográfico do Exército at:
http://www.igeoe.pt/

and look for the link to the Projecto SidCarta:
http://www.igeoe.pt/diversos/txtsidcarta.htm

For those who cannot read Portuguese, I suggest that you contact the
presenters, both of whom can read and write English.

Sandra C. Fernandes, Centro de Estudos Geográficos, Universidade de
Lisboa [log in to unmask]
Fernando Soares, Instituto Geográfico do Exército [log in to unmask]

For those who are particularly interested in the history of cartography,
I should add that the IGeoE has also opened a Cartography Museum. It was
inaugurated on 24 November 2004 to mark the 72nd anniversary of the IGeoE.

--

J. B. "Jack" Owens, Ph.D.
Professor of History & Guggenheim Fellow
Idaho State University Pocatello

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