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Local Roundup: Recently Released Databases/Maps from Chicago, Ohio, Virginia, and Great Lakes Region
|City of Chicago: “Mayor’s Office Launches Interactive Online Mapping Tool: City Hall in Your Community” City of Chicago: Crime Statistics Ohio: Government Employee Salaries Alliance for the Great Lakes: Historical Litter Monitoring and Routine Visit Data Virginia: Automobile Crash Statistics See Also: Pennsylvania: “New Pa. website will let taxpayers track see where their money goes” […]
Title: “MapRank: Geographical Search for Cartographic Materials in Libraries” Source: D-Lib Magazine September/October 2011 (Volume 17, Number 9/10) Authors: Markus Oehrli Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Maps and Panorama Division, Zürich, Switzerland markus.oehrli@zb.uzh.ch Petr Přidal Klokan Technologies GmbH, Baar, Switzerland and Moravian Library, Brno, Czech Republic petr.pridal@klokantech.com Susanne Zollinger ETH-Bibliothek, Map Library, Zürich, Switzerland susanne.zollinger@library.ethz.ch Rosi Siber EAWAG, […]
In July, we posted that the USGS was releasing more than 200,000 historical maps from to 1884 to 2006) online. Today the USGS announced that more than 90,000 hi-res digitized maps are available for download (free; GeoPDF) or as a scanned print (fee-based, $15/maps). Direct to Historical Topographic Map Collection Web Site and Search (via […]
Google News & New Resources Roundup (Late August/Early September 2011)
Data Files, Digital Preservation, Interviews, Maps, News, Patrons and Users, Profiles, Publishing, Resources, Roundup
|Google Roundup (Late August/Early September 2011) Note: Items in this roundup were published between August 16, 2011 and September 6, 2011. 1. [Oops!]: “Closed, Says Google, but Shops’ Signs Say Open” (via NY Times) 2. See Also: Google Aims to Close Google Maps Loophole (via PC World) 3. “Google Customer Support Surprise: Phone Reps Handling […]
From OCLC: On August 26, 1971, the OCLC Online Union Catalog and Shared Cataloging system (now known as WorldCat) began operation. That first day, from a single terminal, catalogers at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, cataloged 133 books online. Today, WorldCat comprises more than 240 million records representing more than 1.7 billion items in OCLC […]
Geographic Databases for 2011 Released The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), a part of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration, released the 2011 edition of the National Transportation Atlas Databases (NTAD) this week. The 2011 edition features updated datasets from last year’s NTAD and premieres the Customs and Border Protection’s Border […]
Cook County includes the entire City of Chicago and a number of suburbs. From WBEZ Radio: A new online database lets people to see who has outstanding warrants in Cook County. Sheriff Tom Dart said there are about 44,000 people in Cook County who have outstanding warrants. The new online database, he hopes, will help […]
Three New Mobile Apps from U.S. Government Organizations
Associations and Organizations, Maps, News, Podcasts, Resources
|1. FBI Child ID (iOS Only, Free) The free FBI Child ID app provides a convenient place to electronically store photos and vital information about your child so that it’s literally right at hand if your child goes missing. You can show the pictures and provide physical identifiers such as height and weight to security […]
Rare Books: British Library Launches eBook Treasures Series With Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Arundel
Awards, Libraries, Maps, News, Patrons and Users, Publishing, Resources
|The launch of a major collection of digitized materials (upcoming releases listed below). From a BL News Release (With Multiple Screenshots to Download): The British Library has launched today a ground-breaking “eBook Treasures” series which will allow iPad users to download entire ancient manuscripts. Starting with Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Arundel (1478-1518), users will […]
Direct to Complete Package From the Associated Press. A set of interactive charts/maps re: U.S. economy. World S&P Ratings Map Monthly Year-Over-Year Changes in the Major Stock Market Indexes of 3o Countries S&P Weekly Closes Since 1970 A Look at U.S. Gross Domestic Product and Economic Recessions in the Past Three Decades GDP Explained First […]