Way back in 1932 , Charles O. Paullin and John K. Wright published an Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States . It was a seminal cite leger , containing almost 700 fascinating maps — and now it ’s beendigitized for you to research online .
The thingis utterly rammed full of fascinating data , mapped across the US — from weather , travelling and population , to gilt second-stringer , oil field of battle and flora types . It ’s been painstakingly transcribe thyroxin the digital data formatting bythe Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond . They excuse :
In this digital variation we ’ve tried to bring — hopefully unobtrusively and respectfully — Paullin and Wright ’s maps a bit close to that paragon . First , with the elision of the historical maps from the mapmaking section and a handful of others ( those that used frigid projections , for exemplar ) , we ’ve georeferenced and georectified all of the maps from the map collection so that they can be overlaid systematically within a digital map environment . ( Georeferencing is a process of linking points on a function to geographical coordinate , and georectification is a process of warping a map using those co-ordinate to properly align it within a particular protrusion , here web mercator . ) mellow - caliber scans of all of the maps as they appeared on the plates are uncommitted too .
The digital overhaulpreserves all the original datum , but also adds in subtle tooltips and animation , along with easily navigable mapping , to make the whole affair way more substance abuser friendly . You could spend ( waste ? ) days looking throughthis matter . What are you hold back for ? [ Digital Scholarship LabviaFlowing Data ]
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