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  1. Title: Ostrov Kil'din to Ostrov Bol'shoy Gusinets (Raster Image)

    • Not specified
    • 1996
    Contributors:

    Summary: Map no. 42742 Historic paper maps can provide an excellent view of the changes that have occurred in the cultural and physical landscape. The wide range of information provided on these maps make them useful in the study of historic geography, and urban and rural land use change. As this map has been georeferenced, it can be used in a GIS as a source or background layer in conjunction with other GIS data. 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: Major natural gas and oil pipe lines

    • Not specified
    • 1966
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    Summary: Extent: 1 map Abstract: Map of Macomb County, Michigan, showing oil lines, gas lines, gas storage fields, regulator stations, and storage meter stations.

  3. Title: Major electric power lines

    • Not specified
    • 1966
    Contributors:

    Summary: Extent: 1 map Abstract: Map of Macomb County, Michigan, showing "24,000 & 40,000 volt transmission lines," underground lines, substations, "120,000 volt tower lines," and "stepdown stations."

  4. Title: General highway map, Huron County

    • Not specified
    • 1940
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    Summary: Extent: 1 map Abstract: Road map showing locations of numerous types of "general cultural features" including buildings. Notes: Stamped "Strictly confidential. The Michigan State Highway Department requests you to treat this information strictly confidential.". Supplemental sheets lacking. Includes location map.

  5. Title: Wabash River and Valley from Terre Haute, Ind. to mouth, in 13 charts, 1914

    • Thematic maps
    • 1931
    Contributors:

    Summary: "The survey of the river proper was begun July 25, and completed December 31, 1911. The valley survey began January 15, and was completed September 10, 1912. Mapping in 1913." 1 map on 13 sheets, photocopy. "Revisions made July 1931." Depths shown by soundings. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Scale: Approximately 1:24,000; Dimensions: sheets 92 x 122 cm

  6. Title: USA (GNIS Buildings, 2005)

    • Point data
    • 2005
    Contributors:

    Summary: U.S. Geographic Names Information System Buildings represents an automated inventory of the proper names and locations of physical and cultural geographic features located throughout the United States and its Territories.

  7. Title: USA (GNIS Cemeteries, 2005)

    • Point data
    • 2005
    Contributors:

    Summary: U.S. Geographic Names Information System Cemeteries represents an automated inventory of the proper names and locations of physical and cultural geographic features located throughout the United States and its Territories.

  8. Title: USA (GNIS Churches, 2005)

    • Point data
    • 2005
    Contributors:

    Summary: U.S. Geographic Names Information System Churches represents an automated inventory of the proper names and locations of physical and cultural geographic features located throughout the United States and its Territories.

  9. Title: USA (GNIS Golf Locales, 2005)

    • Point data
    • 2005
    Contributors:

    Summary: U.S. Geographic Names Information System Golf Locales represents an automated inventory of the proper names and locations of physical and cultural geographic features located throughout the United States and its Territories. No data exists for Alaska.

  10. Title: USA (GNIS Locales, 2005)

    • Point data
    • 2005
    Contributors:

    Summary: U.S. Geographic Names Information System Locales represents an automated inventory of the proper names and locations of physical and cultural geographic features located throughout the United States and its Territories.

  11. Title: USA (GNIS Summits, 2005)

    • Point data
    • 2005
    Contributors:

    Summary: U.S. Geographic Names Information System Summits represents an automated inventory of the proper names and locations of physical and cultural geographic features located throughout the United States and its Territories.

  12. Title: USA (Geographic Names Information System Hospitals, 2005)

    • Point data
    • 2005
    Contributors:

    Summary: U.S. Geographic Names Information System Hospitals represents an automated inventory of the proper names and locations of physical and cultural geographic features located throughout the United States and its Territories.

  13. Title: USA (Geographic Names Information System Schools, 2005)

    • Point data
    • 2005
    Contributors:

    Summary: U.S. Geographic Names Information System Schools represents an automated inventory of the proper names and locations of physical and cultural geographic features located throughout the United States and its Territories.

  14. Title: USA (Geographic Names Information System Populated Places, 2005)

    • Point data
    • 2005
    Contributors:

    Summary: U.S. Geographic Names Information System Populated Places represents an automated inventory of the proper names and locations of physical and cultural geographic features located throughout the United States and its Territories.

  15. Title: San Francisco Section II Map of Western Addition, Land Claims (Raster Image)

    • Raster data
    • 2021
    Contributors:

    Summary: The three Van Ness Ordinances of 1856 to 1858 resulted in the creation and mapping of the Western Addition neighborhood of San Francisco. These five manuscript maps were likely made to show the existing land claims in relation to the newly platted streets, parks, and other public spaces. They may have been used in the subsequent resolution of the various land claims. They show many interesting artifacts of the early settlement of the area before it was officially made a part of the city in the mid 1850's. The 1858 date of the five maps is estimated, based on the creation of the Van Ness map in the same year. Part of the Mission district is also covered. A scanned version of this map was georeferenced as part of the Imagined San Francisco project. This project traces the history of urban planning in San Francisco, placing special emphasis on unrealized schemes. Rather than using visual material simply to illustrate outcomes, Imagined San Francisco uses historical plans, maps, architectural renderings, and photographs to show what might have been. By enabling users to layer a series of urban plans, the project presents the city not only as a sequence of material changes, but also as a contingent process and a battleground for political power. Savvy institutional actors--like banks, developers, and many public officials--understood that in some cases to clearly articulate their interests would be to invite challenges. That means that textual sources like newspapers and municipal reports are limited in what they can tell researchers about the shape of political power. Urban plans, however, often speak volumes about interests and dynamics upon which textual sources remain silent. Mortgage lenders, for example, apparently thought it unwise to state that they wished to see a poor neighborhood cleared, to be replaced with a freeway onramp. Yet visual analysis of planning proposals makes that interest plain. So in the process of showing how the city might have looked, Imagined San Francisco also shows how political power actually was negotiated and exercised. (2021). San Francisco Section Ii Map of Western Addition, Land Claims (Raster Image) Stanford University. Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/yv537wx2014 This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.

  16. Title: City of San Francisco and its vicinity, California (Raster Image)

    • Not specified
    • 2021
    Contributors:

    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced image of an 1853 map of San Francisco by the United States Coast Survey. A scanned version of this map was georeferenced as part of the Imagined San Francisco project. This project traces the history of urban planning in San Francisco, placing special emphasis on unrealized schemes. Rather than using visual material simply to illustrate outcomes, Imagined San Francisco uses historical plans, maps, architectural renderings, and photographs to show what might have been. By enabling users to layer a series of urban plans, the project presents the city not only as a sequence of material changes, but also as a contingent process and a battleground for political power. Savvy institutional actors--like banks, developers, and many public officials--understood that in some cases to clearly articulate their interests would be to invite challenges. That means that textual sources like newspapers and municipal reports are limited in what they can tell researchers about the shape of political power. Urban plans, however, often speak volumes about interests and dynamics upon which textual sources remain silent. Mortgage lenders, for example, apparently thought it unwise to state that they wished to see a poor neighborhood cleared, to be replaced with a freeway onramp. Yet visual analysis of planning proposals makes that interest plain. So in the process of showing how the city might have looked, Imagined San Francisco also shows how political power actually was negotiated and exercised. United States Coast Survey. (2021). City of San Francisco and its vicinity, California (Raster Image) Stanford University. Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/wt284ks4027 This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.

  17. Title: Bedrock geologic map of New Jersey

    • Image data
    • 1996
    Contributors:

    Summary: This map image is composited from two United States Geological Survey publications, "Bedrock geologic map of northern New Jersey" (Miscellaneous investigations series no. I-2540-A) and "Bedrock geologic map of central and southern New Jersey" (Miscellaneous investigations series no. I-2540-B), held in the Lewis Library Map Collection at Princeton University. The three map sheets from these publications are combined into a single image; sheets containing geological cross sections are presented individually.

  18. Title: Zip Code Tabulation Areas Milwaukee County, Wisconsin 2018

    • Polygon data
    • 2018
    Contributors:

    Summary: This polygon data layer represents zip code tabulation areas for Milwaukee County, Wisconsin in 2018. The dataset was distributed by the Milwaukee County Land Information office but was originally published by the United States Census Bureau in 2018.

  19. Title: U.S. Golf Locales (Geographic Names Information System), 2018

    • Point data
    • 1981
    Contributors:

    Summary: U.S. Geographic Names Information System Golf Locales represents the Federal standard for geographic nomenclature and contains information about the proper names and locations of physical and cultural geographic features located throughout the United States and its Territories. The U.S. Geological Survey developed the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) for the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, a Federal inter-agency body chartered by public law to maintain uniform feature name usage throughout the Government and to promulgate standard names to the public.

  20. Title: U.S. Buildings (Geographic Names Information System), 2018

    • Point data
    • 1981
    Contributors:

    Summary: U.S. Geographic Names Information System Buildings represents the Federal standard for geographic nomenclature and contains information about the proper names and locations of physical and cultural geographic features located throughout the United States and its Territories. The U.S. Geological Survey developed the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) for the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, a Federal inter-agency body chartered by public law to maintain uniform feature name usage throughout the Government and to promulgate standard names to the public.

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