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25,000 maps worldwide available for download

The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection is an impressive collection containing more than 250,000 maps that have been scanned and made available online. Most of these maps are in the public domain and about 25,000 are currently available.

As an example, we show some of the maps available in the Collection.

 

This is the 1: 50,000 Cartographic Sheet of Girona, from the first edition of 1943, when this was done by the United States Army for alleged security reasons :). Maps of this type are found in almost all countries, available for download.

Maps for download

See this example of the Navigation Chart 1: 1,000.000 over Lima, Peru. All maps in this collection are available with a high level of detail as seen in the following image.

Maps for download

It is interesting also the maps of wars; The example shows an approach from the 29 Offensive from September to the 14 of October in Verdun during World War I in 1918.

Maps for download

Maps for download

This is England and Wales between 1649 and 1910. The collection of historical maps is very extensive, from different continents.

The way the maps are organized takes some effort because there is no catalog of metadata, but in general it is possible once you enter the area of ​​interest, which is arranged as follows:

I suggest keeping the address of the Library page, as it is an interesting source of information, which is gradually being scanned and uploaded for free use.

 

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/

The Perry-Castañeda Library is located on the University of Texas Campus, currently the fifth largest library at the academic institutions level; The eleventh in the United States.

Golgi Alvarez

Writer, researcher, specialist in Land Management Models. He has participated in the conceptualization and implementation of models such as: National Property Administration System SINAP in Honduras, Management Model of Joint Municipalities in Honduras, Integrated Cadastre-Registry Management Model in Nicaragua, Territory Administration System SAT in Colombia . Editor of the Geofumadas knowledge blog since 2007 and creator of the AulaGEO Academy that includes more than 100 courses on GIS - CAD - BIM - Digital Twins topics.

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  1. Very good stuff, thanks for sharing.

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