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Subject:        Re: : Historic Rand McNally Commercial Atlases online?
Date:   Tue, 06 Feb 2007 20:56:45 -0500
From:   Dave Broer <[log in to unmask]>
To:     Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>




> These two registries were established only recently.  A better place to
> search for online maps and atlases (at this point in time) is WorldCat
> -- which should be available through your local public library.  A
> simplified version of that database is freely available on the web at
> http://www.worldcat.org
>
> Another good source is Infomine:
> http://infomine.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/search?category=maps
>
>
> Philip Hoehn, Map Librarian
> San Francisco -- [log in to unmask]
>

If I may, our library has been working on a project of indexing sites
who only have online maps.  The two sites listed above list some online
maps, but mostly catalog listings.  We have indexed 128 online
collections (meaning maps/images) that you can view online with nearly
65,000 links and over 200,000 different keywords.  We're also working on
a newer version with improved searching that has indexed even more
pages.  The results are displayed Google style.  A search for 'Rand
McNally' returned 920 different links.  Searching for a common city name
like Springfield returned 346 different links, while the above returned
far fewer than that.

You can access the Historic Map Index here:

http://www.broermapsonline.org/members/mapindex/

Dave Broer
Director, Broer Map Library