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At the AHA (Thursday afternoon, part 2)

Posted on January 3, 2008January 3, 2008 by Mills

The final full session of the pre-conference workshop at the AHA annual meeting, three presenters showed us work in progress. Jan Reiff asked whether we have moved beyond Web 2.0 to Web 3.0 (transforming all of the web into a database, the Semantic Web, etc.)? (Not in the history business, I’d say–but a few of…

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Mapping the Past in Google Earth (cont’d)

Posted on May 9, 2007 by Mills

After my earlier post on using Google Earth to map the past, I received an email from Tim Brixius pointing me to a new Google Earth layer that he has created marrying historical content with existing maps. This particular layer takes the content from a 1940 Guide to the Keystone State and projects it onto…

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Mapping the Past in Google Earth

Posted on May 3, 2007 by Mills

A Google Earth Community — History Illustrated — has begun putting up some interesting map overlays that merge history and the present in ways that present some interesting possibilities for teachers and students of the past. The largest number of postings in this forum are for very simple maps that just offer a placemark for…

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High Quality Historical Maps Online

Posted on April 24, 2007April 25, 2007 by Mills

The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection from Cartography Associates offers a wealth of cartographic resources to the historian–both for research and for teaching. The collection, which is heavy on the Americas, but includes historical maps from around the world, uses a proprietary software platform to allow web users to view files that are often extremely…

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