• Meet Riley Moffat

Benchmarks: People & Jobs

• WAML has a new Jobs Blog!

• Denver, October 24-27, 2007
• Las Vegas, early March 2008
• San Diego, Fall 2008

New Maps of the WAML Region

• February
• March

Articles about Mapping

• Bibliography by Phil Hoehn

Other Map Organization Journals

• Coordinates (MAGERT)
• NEMO Newsletter
• Australian Map Circle
  Newsletter

• WAML 's Nominations Committee is looking for candidates for the upcoming election. If you'd like to run for for Vice-President/President-Elect or Secretary, please contact one of the members of the Nominating Committee: Mabel Suzuki (chair), Riley Moffat, and Chris Thiry. Nominations are welcomed from the membership.


• At the ALA Midwinter meeting in Seattle, GODORT's Govt. Information Technology Committee (GITCO) decided to stop updating its Clearinghouse of Digital Projects, and transfer the information on state, local, and international projects to the GPO Registry of U.S. Government Publication Digitization Projects. A simple search on "Maps" turned up several projects, including "Historical Soil Survey Maps of South Carolina".


• Katie Lage reports the the University of Colorado Boulder is unveiling a new web site: Building Colorado Story by Story: The Sanborn Fire Insurance Map Collection is a digital collection of Sanborn fire insurance maps of cities across Colorado. The collection contains 346 maps of 79 principal cities in 52 counties covering the years 1883-1922.


• Easier Ordering of Published Maps AND Free Downloading of GeoPDF Files at the USGS Store: A new "Map Locator and Downloader" in the USGS Store was launched to help visitors with two tasks:
  • 1. Finding and ordering topo maps of any place in the U.S. and Antarctica.
  • 2. Downloading new GeoPDF files derived from scans of the topo maps
  GeoPDF data available through this system will be expanded to include higher resolution scans of historic topo quads, other historic map products, and new products being produced from The National Map.


• The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at Boston Public Library announces its new web site. Read the article about it in the Boston Globe.


• Come join in the fun at Map Librarians on Ning, where Linda Shippert of WSU has created a social networking site just for us map wizards.


• WAML president Wendie Helms asks for comments on the the impending lawsuit by MAPPS against the U.S Government.


• Google has created a tool to let non-technical users create Google Maps mashups, extending this capability beyond the realm of software developers. Click on the "My Maps" tab, then check out the "America's Highway: Oral Histories of Route 66" map as a great example of what can be done with this tool.


• The National Geologic Map Database (NGMDB) Map Catalog now includes a graphical map search box. At the Quick Search and Comprehensive Search, this new search box lets you zoom into the base map and define the search area. They also added a counter to the search page which, on-the-fly, lets you know how many maps will be found according to your search criteria, without needing to hit the search button. Last month, that counter was added to Geolex, the lexicon of lithologic and geochronologic names.


• NASA has developed a free Java application called the "G.Projector" (Global Map Projector). You can use it to explore a large collection (60 in this first version) of global map projections. It also allows you to project user supplied GIF, JPG or PNG equirectangular map images. A graticule and continental outlines may be drawn, and the resulting map images can be saved to disk in GIF, PDF, PNG or PS format.
  A small library of compatible map images is available.
  - From MAPS-L, 22 Mar 2007, submitted by Paul Bryan Anderson


• The geographic center of the U.S. is moving - just a little.


• You know it's Friday when "The Beer Mapping Project" shows up on MAPS-L.

• WAMLites Chris Thiry and Katie Lage are presenting Accidental Map Librarian Workshops in Colorado.


• Register a.s.a.p. for the 2007 Nevada Geographic Information Society Conference, being held May 14th – 16th, at Harvey’s, Lake Tahoe. Discount rates end April 29th.
  
• The final program is available for CARTO 2007, the ACMLA Annual Conference, to be held Wednesday, May 9th to Sunday, May 13th at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec.


• Opening November 2, 2007 and continuing into 2008, the Festival of Maps Chicago is a citywide celebration of humanity's greatest discoveries and the maps that record our boldest explorations. More than 25 cultural and scientific institutions join a unique collaboration that will feature maps, globes, artifacts and artworks and track the evolving technology of wayfinding from ancient to modern times.


• Northeast Map Organization (NEMO) meets June 7-8, 2007 at the Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY, for its annual meeting. Contact Cynthia Dietz for a copy of the pdf schedule.


• The ESRI International User Conference will be held June 18–22, 2007, in San Diego, California.


• The 10th Annual Society for Conservation GIS (SCGIS) Conference, June 25-28, 2007, in Monterey, California, at the Asilomar Conference Center. Early-bird registration available through May 25!


• Apply now for the maps course, A History of Maps & Map Making, at the London Rare Books School 23-26 July.
  (From a maps-l email, 3-26-07).


• The next NACIS meeting will be in St. Louis, Missouri from October 10-13, 2007, at the Hilton Frontenac.

• Mary Larsgaard reports: the Joint Steering Cttee on AACR2R has released the revised draft of Chapter 3, "Carrier." This is the chapter having to do (mainly) with area 5, MARC21 300. Copy is available at http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/working2.html
  Final deadline for public comment is 14 May 2007. ALA MAGERT's rep to CC:DA is Elizabeth Mangan and Mary Larsgaard recommends sending her your comments.

• Free Digital Topographic Data (DTD) now available from the Natural Resources Canada web site, Earth Sciences Section.
  Read the government's press release here!

• Phil Hoehn reports that 1041 New Maps have been added to the David Rumsey Collection. The online collection now numbers 15,869 maps and related images. Among the wonderful new additions are the report of the United States Exploring Expedition, 1845; Atlas of Hamilton County, Ohio, 1869 (Cincinnati); Report U.S. Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian volume 1, 1875 by Wheeler; Scribner's Statistical Atlas of the United States, 1883; Statistical Atlas of the United States, 1898 from the United States Census Office; Twelfth Census of the United States, taken in the year 1900, Statistical Atlas, 1903; and the Atlante Internazionale, 1929 Touring Club Italiano, Milano.

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