Hi Angie!
Thanks for putting the document together. What I like best about the FIMO collection is the easy interface and the download and use options that it offers our
library readers. We’ve become big users of the FIMO collection for Maryland coverage and if serves us well.
Jim
James E. Gillispie
GIS Librarian and Curator of Maps
Sheridan Libraries and Museums
Johns Hopkins University
3400 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21212
410-516-4816
From: Maps-L: Map Librarians, etc. <[log in to unmask]>
On Behalf Of Angela R Cope
Sent: Tuesday, December 4, 2018 1:32 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Fimo -- Sanborn Maps Online
There was a discussion of this last year at Maps-L when I asked the same question. I created this libguide: http://guides.library.uwm.edu/c.php?g=824760
Not everything is available via Library of Congress but most of it and in color.
You can search the
Maps-L archives with the term: "Sanborn maps online" and get these results:
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2018-04-30 |
11:29 |
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Re: Sanborn and fire insurance maps online |
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2018-04-05 |
09:31 |
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Re: Sanborn and fire insurance maps online |
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2018-04-05 |
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Sanborn and fire insurance maps online |
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2018-03-08 |
11:36 |
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2018-03-08 |
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2018-03-08 |
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2018-03-08 |
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2018-03-08 |
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2018-03-08 |
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Sanborn maps online |
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2017-10-12 |
11:53 |
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Re: Sanborn Fire Insurance map dates |
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2017-10-12 |
11:28 |
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2017-10-12 |
11:18 |
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2016-12-09 |
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Sanborn maps online |
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2016-12-07 |
10:35 |
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Sanborn maps online |
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Angie Cope
AGS Library, UW Milwaukee Libraries
2311 E. Hartford Avenue
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53211
http://uwm.edu/libraries/agsl/
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From: Maps-L: Map Librarians, etc. <[log in to unmask]>
on behalf of Eliza Bettinger <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 4, 2018 12:10 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [MAPS-L] Fimo -- Sanborn Maps Online
Hello All,
I attended a demo today of
FIMO (Fire Maps Online – a database product sold by a company called Historical Information Gatherers), arranged by our Architecture librarian, whose patrons include historical preservationists.
Fimo includes a nearly full collection of full-color Sanborn maps – much better quality images than the ProQuest Sanborn Maps database, and an easier interface.
I’m wondering if any of you have purchased this product or seen a demo or had a trial at your library. Seems to me that more and
more Sanborn maps are freely available in high resolution online (and apparently more will go out of copyright soon?), but these collections are scattered. And if you’re a person without any specialized map or GIS knowledge, having tools like Fimo that automatically
layer on contemporary base maps is very attractive. Plus, Fimo claims to have all the corrected versions of maps (those little white pieces of paper they pasted over spots on the map.), and records of when the corrections were made.
I’d welcome your thoughts and observations!
Thanks,
eliza
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Eliza Bettinger
Digital Humanities Librarian
she/her
106 Olin Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853 USA
607-255-4042 (office)