[ISHMap-List] Digitizing the William Smith 1815 map

[Joel Kovarsky]

The announcement below had been posted to another list. The persistent 
URL to the 15 images is http://purl.stanford.edu/sy238bb9255 . The blog 
post also references Simon Winchester's previous book, _The Map That 
Changed the World_.

                     Joel Kovarsky

On 4/4/14, 7:19 AM, Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library, 
UW Milwaukee wrote:
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> Hi, all,
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> I thought you'd be interested in this blog post about the digitization 
> of the William Smith map in our map scanning lab.
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> http://library.stanford.edu/blogs/digital-library-blog/2014/03/how-big-big-map-digitizing-william-smiths-stratified-map-england
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> Enjoy!
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> Best,
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> Julie
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> Julie Sweetkind-Singer
> Assistant Director of Geospatial, Cartographic and Scientific Data & 
> Services
> Head Librarian, Branner Earth Sciences Library & Map Collections
> Stanford University
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Joel Kovarsky
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