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  1. Title: Ohio Range: Antarctica

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

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  2. Title: Plan of Dresden

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    Summary: Map of Dresden in the German state of Saxony. Relief shown by hachures. Plate 6 from : Plans of the most important cities and towns of continental Europe. London : George Bradshaw, 1894. Includes inset of the environs of Dresden.

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  3. Title: Bradshaw's map of the railways in Central Europe

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    Summary: Includes "Panorama of the Rhine from Dusseldorf to Mayence" in margin. 39 x 56 centimeters Scale not given General Map Collection

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  4. Title: Bradshaw's map of the railways in Great Britain : shewing the projected lines to the present time, also the line of navigation from the principal sea ports to both home and foreign stations, 1845

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    Summary: Projected lines shown in red.; Publisher place and name from related maps. 42 x 34 centimeters Scale approximately 1:1,800,000 General Map Collection

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  5. Title: Distribution of Ricketsial Disease: Tick and Mite Born Vectors (1954)

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    Summary: 1954

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

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    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).]

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

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    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.

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

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    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.

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

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    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

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  10. Title: Map of Japan

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    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 Scale 1:2,200,000 General Map Collection

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  11. Title: Map of Liberia

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    Summary: Extent: 1 map Notes: Relief shown by hachures. Includes inset of: Vicinity of Monrovia / surveyed by J. Ashmun; 1825. Scale 1:760,000

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  12. Title: London; Visscher delineavit.

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    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

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  13. Title: English Channel

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Depths shown by soundings. Oriented with north to upper left. Includes ill., notes and views. In margin: Chart no. 4. Insets: Falmouth Harbour -- Lizard Point -- Manacles -- Penzance Bay -- Land's End -- Dartmouth Hr. -- Plymouth Sound -- Weymouth Harbour -- Tor Bay -- Anchorage east of Dungeness -- Dover -- Calais -- The Downs -- Approaches to Portsmouth and Southampton -- Continuation to Southampton. Historic Maps copy has paper label on verso: Chart no. 4. English Channel. Price, with a book of directions, 12s. Historic Maps copy has ms. annotations.

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  14. Title: (Composite Map of) A Map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish Settlements adjacent thereto. by Henry Popple. C. Lempriere inv. & del. B Baron Sculp. To the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty This Map is most humbly Inscribed by Your Majesty's most Dutiful, most Obedient, and most Humble Servant Henry Popple. London Engrav'd by Willm. Henry Toms & R.W. Seale 1733 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced image of a map of North America originally created by H. Popple in 1733. The original map appears in "A Map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish Settlements adjacent thereto. by Henry Popple. C. Lempriere inv. & del. B Baron Sculp. To the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty This Map is most humbly Inscribed by Your Majesty's most Dutiful, most Obedient, and most Humble Servant Henry Popple. London Engrav'd by Willm. Henry Toms & R.W. Seale, 1733. (index map) ... W.H. Toms Sculp." The historic map layers in the Google Earth Rumsey Map Collection have been selected by David Rumsey from his large collection of historical maps, as well as some from other collections with which he collaborates. All the maps contain rich information about the past and represent a sampling of time periods, scales, and cartographic art, resulting in visual history stories that only old maps can tell. Each map has been georeferenced by Rumsey, thus creating unique digital map images that allow the old maps to appear in their correct places on the modern globe. Some of the maps fit perfectly in their modern spaces, while othersgenerally earlier period mapsreveal interesting geographical misconceptions of their time. Cultural features on the maps can be compared to the modern satellite views using the slider bars to adjust transparency. The result is an exploration of time as well as space, a marriage of historic cartographic masterpieces with innovative contemporary software tools.

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  15. Title: Africa (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced image of an historic continental map of Africa from 1831, originally created by Henry Teesdale. 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, or other information associated with the principal map. This map was georeferenced by the Stanford University Geospatial Center using a Sinusoidal projection. This map is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of Africa held at Stanford University Libraries. This historic paper map provides an historical perspective of the cultural and physical landscape during this time period. The wide range of information provided on these maps make them useful in the study of historic geography. As this map has been georeferenced, it also can be used as a background layer in conjunction with other GIS data. The horizontal positional accuracy of a raster image is approximately the same as the accuracy of the published source map. The lack of a greater accuracy is largely the result of the inaccuracies with the original measurements and possible distortions in the original paper map document. There may also be errors introduced during the digitizing and georeferencing process. In most cases, however, errors in the raster image are small compared with sources of error in the original map graphic. The RMS error for this map is 4137.66 meters. This value describes how consistent the transformation is between the different control points (links). The RMS error is only an assessment of the accuracy of the transformation. Teesdale, Henry, Dower, John, and Stanford Geospatial Center. (2013). Africa (Raster Image). Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/qj152rq1246. For more information about Stanford's Maps of Africa Collection, see here: https://exhibits.stanford.edu/maps-of-africa. This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.

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  16. Title: Atlantic Coast, New England, ca. 1773 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: A new and correct chart of the sea coast of New-England from Cape Codd to Casco Bay, lately survey'd by Capt. Henry Barnsley. It was published by W. & I. Mount & T. Page on Tower hill ca. 1773. Scale [ca. 1:142,560]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the World Mercator projected coordinate system. 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 coastal features such as rocks, channels, points, coves, islands, flats, banks, ports, and more. Includes also selected land features such as towns and more. Depths shown by soundings. Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings and shading. Includes also 5 views of coastline.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

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  17. Title: Ireland and Northern Ireland, 1705 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: A mapp of the kingdom of Ireland : newly corrected & improv'd by actual observations : divided into its provinces, counties, & baronies, and supply'd with many market towns & other places of note omitted in former mapps ... : together with plans of the citys and fortified towns, as allso a short description of the kingdom by Henry Pratt ; to this map is added a large index of the measur'd distances of ev'ry town from Dublin, of the burroughs, barracks, and post towns with many other improuements and emendations ; I. Harris, sculp. It was published by H. Pratt in 1708. Scale [ca. 1:385,000]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Irish Grid (Transverse Mercator 1965 (TM-65)) coordinate system. 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 drainage, cities and other human settlements, major roads, territorial and administrative boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown pictorially. Includes also text, index, 16 ancillary town maps, and inset: The sea coasts of Great Britain and Ireland.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

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  18. Title: Morocco, 1908 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Maroc, carte dessinee par R. de Flotte de Roquevaire. It was published by Maison Andriveau-Goujon, Henry Barrere Editeur in 1908. Scale 1:1,000,000. Covers Morocco and portions of Algeria. Map in French. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to a modified 'Europe Lambert Conformal Conic' projection with a central meridian of 7 degrees West. 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 drainage, cities and other human settlements, roads, ruins, territorial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown by landforms and spot heights. Includes indexs and insets: Mazagan (Scale 1:20,000) -- Casa Blanca (Scale 1:20,000) -- Tanger (Scale 1:20,000) -- Safi (Scale 1:20,000) -- Larache (Scale 1:20,000) -- El-Qsar el-Kebir (Scale 1:20,000) -- Rabat (Scale 1:50,000) -- Taroudant (Scale 1:40,000) -- Mogador (Scale 1:20,000) -- Agadir Irir (Scale 1:20,000) -- Oujda (Scale 1:20,000) -- El-Aioun Si Mellouk (Scale 1:10,000) -- Meknes (Scale 1:50,000) -- Fes (Scale 1:30,000) -- Figuig (Scale 1:200,000) -- Marrakech (Scale 1:60,000) -- Environs de Fes (Scale 1:100,000). This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection as part of the Open Collections Program at Harvard University project: Islamic Heritage Project. Maps selected for the project represent a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and purposes. The Islamic Heritage Project consists of over 100,000 digitized pages from Harvard's collections of Islamic manuscripts and published materials. Supported by Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal and developed in association with the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University.

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  19. Title: The voyage of the Pequod from the book, Moby Dick, by Herman Melville

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    Summary: Pictorial world map.

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  20. Title: Belgique, Hollande & bords du Rhin

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    Summary: Map of Belgium and the Netherlands; relief shown by hachures. At top of map: No. 6. In margin: Atlas usuel, no. 6. Atlas universel, no. 19. Historic Maps copy has paper label on verso: E. Andriveau-Goujon, Rue du Bac, 4.

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