Open Access Maps at New York Public Library (20,000+ cartographic works free download)

NYPL ^ | March 28, 2014

[Skooz]

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[zeugma]

One of the very first sites I ever went to on the internet was a cartographic site. It was a gopher site, but you could download maps. (I think via anonymous ftp)

I used to have a map that was drawn in the late 1850s that showed railways nationwide. It was fascinating at the time, because I worked for MCI, and this hundred+ year old map lined up really well against our fiber routes at the time. It's not really surprising given how right-of-way works, but I still thought it was cool.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks NYer.

...you can have the maps, all of them if you want, for free, in high resolution.

[null and void]

This just begs for someone to ping you...

[sauropod]

Thanks for posting this.

[bert]

The university of texas has 40,000 or so maps online for free

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

Perry-Castañeda Library
Map Collection

[Cold Heart]

I was just checking to see if someone else had done that otherwise I would have.

[Jane Long]

Love it! Thanks for posting.

[Jane Long]

Thanks for that info ;)

[FreedomPoster]

Thanks.

[colorado tanker]

I don’t dare go there. I am a map person and if I went in I would never come out.

[GregoTX]

Thank you for the link!

When I opened this thread the first thing I did was search the site for Historical Texas maps. No Republic of Texas maps, but they had a couple old Texas maps.

Then I saw your link to the University of Texas map archive... BINGO!

I am going to spend some time in thar.

[Squidpup]

mapaholics anonymous needed here too..
“Intervention!”

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Here is another interesting sight for different maps of all sorts

http://bigthink.com/blogs/strange-maps

[bert]

I asked them about a map Friday and zap...... there it was in my in box this morning

A’int Texas Great?

[SunkenCiv]

Then you’d become a legend. /rimshot