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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