May 24, 2003
Maps
The Library of Congress has a great collection of maps from 1500-2003. They are mostly of the US, but there are some good ones of London and Paris as well. They have really high quality downloads suitable for print. I made one that was 40" by 50".
I'm a big fan of things like these. My favorite map is one from the late 1800s of the Chicago L system. It was made before they filled in the lakefront, so the park isn't there yet and the trains run right along the water. Too much fun.
On the bottom: Cut aways of my home town and my high-school from 1867.
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Hrm. The MrSID image viewer they have for hte Mac requires 9 (or Classic) and the map I have is only available in .sid format:
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?gmd:1:./temp/~ammem_FMeC::
Posted by: Erik J. Barzeski at May 25, 2003 12:19 PM
Yeah, most of the maps are only available in MrSID, though they say they can be had in tiff. The viewer sucks, and the Photoshop plug-in that they had has since disappeared (classic only as well). It's worth using classic though if you still have it around, the maps are great.
Posted by: Thomas Wolf at May 25, 2003 02:20 PM