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  1. Title: Important Bird Areas: San Francisco Bay Area, 2008

    • Polygon data
    • 2011
    Contributors:

    Summary: The objective of this project was to digitally map the boundaries of Audubon California's Important Bird Areas (IBA). Existing Important Bird Areas identify critical terrestrial and inland water habitats for avifauna, in particular, habitat that supports rare, threatened or endangered birds and/or exceptionally large congregations of shorebirds and/or waterfowl. The digitization of Important Bird Areas represents an important first step in conservation planning of these critical habitats using GIS. As of October 2007, a draft layer of all 148 Important Bird Areas in California was completed. Currently, a review is in progress with Audubon Chapters and local experts, with a final version completed by Nov. 1, 2008. The final map and data will be released to the public in November, 2008. Bird conservation efforts throughout California by Audubon California Bay Area Open Space Council, GreenInfo Network, Conservation Lands Network, and San Francisco Bay Area Upland Habitat Goals Project. (2011). Important Bird Areas: San Francisco Bay Area, 2008. Bay Area Open Space Council. Available at http://purl.stanford.edu/np148dh6859. For IBA site summaries, please go to the following website: http://ca.audubon.org/iba/iba_sites.shtml For criteria utilized to designate sites as Important Bird Areas in California, go to: http://ca.audubon.org/iba/iba_criteria.shtml For a searchable database by species, habitat, land use, etc., go to http://iba.audubon.org/iba/siteSearch.do Please contact Audubon California for use in analysis or publications. This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.

  2. Title: Los Angeles, California, 1849 (Raster Image)

    • Raster data
    • 2008
    Contributors:

    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Plan de la Ciudad de Los Angeles, surveyed & drawn by E.O.C. Ord, Lt., U.S.A. & Wm. R. Hutton, asst., August 29th 1849. It was published by the Historical Society of Southern California ca. 1930. Scale [ca. 1:6,330] . Facsimile of a manuscript map. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the California State Plane Zone V Coordinate System NAD83 (in Feet) (Fipszone 0405). All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as roads, drainage, block and lot numbers, ground cover, and more. Relief is shown by hachures. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from The Harvard Map Collection as part of the Imaging the Urban Environment project. Maps selected for this project represent major urban areas and cities of the world, at various time periods. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features at a large scale. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and purposes.

  3. Title: Shipwrecks (Great Lakes), Wisconsin 2014

    • Point data
    • 2014
    Contributors:

    Summary: [This dataset represents shipwrecks in the Great Lakes of Wisconsin as points in shapefile format. It is compiled from the shipwreck database maintained by the Wisconsin Historical Society. More information about the shipwreck database is available here (http://maritimetrails.org/about_shipwreck_database.php).]

  4. Title: Follow the Revolution : the route of Washington and the Continental Army, December 25, 1776 to January 6, 1777

    • Image data
    • 2012
    Contributors:

    Summary: Relief shown by shading. Includes directions for following route of Continental Army. Includes facsimile of title cartouche of William Faden's map of 1777.

  5. Title: Commercial nuclear power stations around the world: operable, under construction or ordered, September 1, 1991

    • Image data
    • 1991
    Contributors:

    Summary: Map does not show facilities for the United States. Lists of organization, name, location, net output levels in MWe, reactor supplier, architect/engineer, and date of initial commercial operation. Includes list of abbreviations and symbols. Plant names with information keyed to maps by number. "Map figures are current through August 30, 1991." North Decimal Degree 80.000000 East Decimal Degree 180.000000 South Decimal Degree -80.000000 "Map figures are current through August 30, 1991." Map does not show facilities for the United States. Lists of organization, name, location, net output levels in MWe, reactor supplier, architect/engineer, and date of initial commercial operation. With list of abbreviations and symbols. . West Decimal Degree -180.000000 American Nuclear Society

  6. Title: Ohio Range: Antarctica

    • Topographic maps
    • 1986
    Contributors:

    Summary: Projection: National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929; Series: USGS 1:250,000 Geologic Reconnaissance Series

  7. Title: Map of Japan

    • Not specified
    • 1908
    Contributors:

    Summary: Cover title: The latest map of Japan for travellers.; Includes text.; Insets: Taiwan, 1:4,500,000.--Karafuto, 1:6,000,000.--Hokkaido, 1:3,000,000.--Chishima, 1:6,000,000.--Osaka, 1:8,000.--Kyo?to, 1:80,000.--Ogawasara-jima, 1:6,000,000.--To?kyo, 1:50,000.; Advertisements on verso. 58 x 87 centimeters

  8. Title: Map of Liberia. Compiled from data on file in the office of the American Colonization Society, under the direction of the Rev. W. McLain, Sec.

    • Not specified
    • 1845
    Contributors:

    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Includes inset of Vicinity of Monrovia, surveyed by J. Ashmun; 1825. Original version published Baltimore: Lith. by E. Weber & Co., 1845. Scale 1:760,000

  9. Title: Map of Liberia

    • Not specified
    • 1845
    Contributors:

    Summary: Extent: 1 map Notes: Relief shown by hachures. Includes inset of: Vicinity of Monrovia / surveyed by J. Ashmun; 1825.

  10. Title: London; Visscher delineavit.

    • Pictorial maps
    • 1616
    Contributors:

    Summary: Alternate title: View of London by C. J. Visscher, A.D. 1616. Title from title sheet: View of London, A.D. 1616. By Nicholas John Visscher. "A facsimile of the probably unique example of the original edition in the King's Library, British Museum." Has watermark. Panorama. "Reproduced by the Typographic Etching Company"--sheet 1. Includes 2 texts in Latin and 2 coats of arms. Accompanied by title sheet with text. 1 l. 1 view on 4 sheets; 43 x 216 cm, sheets 59 x 80 cm

  11. Title: World Countries (Generalized), 1993-2013

    • Polygon data
    • 2014
    Contributors:

    Summary: This polygon shapefile contains generalized boundaries for the countries of the world and population statistics at 1:50,000,000 scale. This layer is part of the 2014 ESRI Data and Maps collection for ArcGIS 10.2. World Countries (Generalized) provides generalized political boundaries for the world. The generalized political boundaries improve draw performance and effectiveness at a global level. ESRI and National Geographic Society (U.S.). (2014). World Countries (Generalized), 1993-2013. ESRI. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/xq439ky7501

  12. Title: India

    • Image data
    • 2012
    Contributors:

    Summary: Relief shown by shading and spot heights. Depths shown by gradient tints and soundings. Map shows state boundaries, oil pipelines and fields, railroads, roads, and airports. Includes Hindi - English lists of geographical equivalents, and abbreviations. In lower left corner: 20546.

  13. Title: The Balkans

    • Image data
    • 2010
    Contributors:

    Summary: Relief shown by shading and spot heights. Depths shown by soundings. Map shows international boundaries and administrative divisions, oil pipelines and fields, ruins, ferry lines. Includes indexed lists of "Counties of Romania with their capitals," "Counties of Hungary with their capitals," and "Administrative divisions of Bosnia and Herzegovina" and notes.

  14. Title: Northwestern Africa

    • Image data
    • 2005
    Contributors:

    Summary: Relief shown by shading and spot heights. Depths shown by gradient tints and soundings. Copyright: (C) 2005 National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C. In colophon: "View, print, and customize on the Internet at nationalgeographic.com/maps/atlas/plate86.html."

  15. Title: South Asia with Afghanistan and Myanmar

    • Image data
    • 1997
    Contributors:

    Summary: "May 1997." Relief shown by shading and spot heights. Depths shown by gradient tints, isolines, and soundings. Includes maps, text, descriptive historical timeline, and illustrations on verso. On verso: India: Economic breakthroughs -- Population quandaries -- India from space -- Changing faces of India: empires to independence. Supplement to the National Geographic, May 1997.

  16. Title: Bathurst, 1877

    • Not specified
    • 1877
    Contributors:

    Summary: View over the city of Bathurst in 1877, detailing particular houses and landscapes. At bottom centre of map: Bathurst, 100 years a city, 1885-1985. Facsimile. Inset views at corners of central map: All Saints Cathedral -- New Public Buildings -- Town Hall -- St. Stanislaus College. 46 x 63 centimeters

  17. Title: Sussex, hundreds

    • Not specified
    • 1929
    Contributors:

    Summary: Relief shown by spot heights.; Indexed.; Administrative divisions shown with red borders. sheet 50 x 105 centimeters

  18. Title: The world : prepared expressly for the National Geographic Magazine, showing the political divisions, including those established after the World War.

    • Not specified
    • 1922
    Contributors:

    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridian: Greenwich. Insets: North polar region -- South polar regions -- Natural vegetation and ocean currents -- Density of populations and prevailing winds. 67 x 100 centimeters

  19. Title: Map of Africa : and adjoining portions of Europe and Asia

    • Not specified
    • 1922
    Contributors:

    Summary: Includes inset: Cape Verde Islands, and note on transliteration system. 77 x 69 centimeters

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