Melanie McCalmont discusses the relationship between the landscape and life in Wisconsin. Melanie McCalmont, Geographer, shares human stories behind the UW-Madison collection of 3-D relief maps. The ...

The tactile map, an innovation of the 19 th century, allowed both blind and sighted students to feel their way across a given geography. Writing for the digital archive 19 th-Century Disability: ...

The Vault is Slate’s history blog. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @slatevault, and find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. In the 1910s, promoters of the ...

In an effort to bridge the gap between obtaining crucial information quickly during a crisis and acting accordingly, Facebook has announced the launch of “disaster maps.” The company is partnering ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The left panel of a mural containing ...

For more than 10 years, its whereabouts known only to a few dedicated preservationists, one of the world's largest relief maps and perhaps the province's best example of folk art languished in a ...

If the task of changing the country were as simple as cleansing a relief map, then a group of artists would have succeeded in just one day. Members of Dakila, a movement composed of artists who want ...

The large scale map of Scotland was built over six summers by a small group of Polish exchange students and staff from the Hotel Black Barony SCOTLAND looms large in the world’s biggest 3D map. A ...

In this special report, India Today Bureau Chief Pramod Madhav explains the trajectory of Cyclone Ditwa using a rare 3D ...