William C. Wonders Map Collection, University of Alberta Library. Curation by Wyman Laliberté (he/him) (settler on Treaty 6 land).
WCW Map Collection on Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/wcw
#spatial #maps #cartography #gis #qgis
UofA Map/GIS Librarian
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Migratory sandbars.
On this #InternationalArchivesWeek I'd like to repost this absolute gem by the @bucksarchives.bsky.social!
Some dialogue between “the cartographer” and “the rastaman” in Kei Miller’s The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion. 2014.
In 1987 the City of Edmonton Transportation Department publishes the "Cycle Edmonton" map. The map's yellow, green, and fade-away-blues, along with the cyclist scolding infographics, would stretch into the early part of the 21st century. archive.org/details/wcwd...
Take an official provincial highway #map. Overlay information showing Alberta #Simmental Breeder locations. Becomes a spatial snapshot of Alberta at the time of the Simmental in Canada 20th Anniversary 1967-1987. archive.org/details/WCWd...
#CampbellCollection #WCWMC
Before the #Cycle #Edmonton maps of the 1990s/2000s cityarchives.edmonton.ca/cycle-edmont... there was "Edmonton Bikeways". #WCWMC has 3 copies - 1979, 1982 & 1986 tinyurl.com/3tk56z9b Maps include the Capital City Recreation Park. Notes that Roman Fodchuk and Associates Ltd. supplied the base map.
Design resource inventory for the development of trail systems in the City of Edmonton: bike and pedestrian trail study. Edmonton Parks and Recreation. Published 1973. #continuous #core #UAlberta #pictograms archive.org/details/WCWd...
UofA Map/GIS Librarian
I am very excited to release GeoLibre v1.0 🌍
GeoLibre is a free and open-source, lightweight, cloud-native GIS platform for visualizing, exploring, and analyzing geospatial data.
Try it: geolibre.app
GitHub: github.com/opengeos/Geo...
Full video tutorial: youtu.be/87Cm0QagtxI
You might also like the scrolls on here, they were designed to tell a story as the reader unrolls and moves through the series of images.
scrolls.uchicago.edu
