5,000 rare and unique maps are now available online

peter.suber's bookmarks 2020-05-22

Summary:

"Over 5,000 unique maps from the Asia-Pacific Map Collection are now available online as part of an ongoing project by The Australian National University's College of Asia and the Pacific.

This significant portion of the college's map collection is now available on Open Research for people to download and enjoy for free.

 

The collection is home to a variety of topographic, cadastral, aeronautical, and thematic maps, some of which date back hundreds of years...."

Link:

https://phys.org/news/2020-05-rare-unique-online.html

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Tags:

oa.new oa.digitization oa.geo oa.asia oa.ch oa.glam oa.images

Date tagged:

05/22/2020, 10:47

Date published:

05/22/2020, 06:47