(projects) (maps) Page
This page is for my maps, survey, and mapping projects. There is no particular
effort made to make everything neat and orderly, just useful. The goal
is to add information about my collection of paper geology and survey maps
of Michigan as well as to keep track of the best available GIS tools.
project: maps
The mapping projects are done with the help of the University
of Michigan Map Library, located at the top floor of the Graduate Library.
Michigan
A first sample is a
land usage file for the eastern U.P. It's a postscript file - I really
mean to go back and do a similar approach in PDF instead so it's easier
to browse.
In my personal collection are geological maps of "the environs of Marquette,
Ishpeming, and Negaunee" (1881) and a survey of the Michigan-Ohio border
(1916). The border survey is great if you're into this sort of thing, it
is a surveyor's eye's view of land disputes in the Toledo Strip and how
a government re-survey moved some people's homes from Michigan into Ohio.
(A biographical
sketch of Stevens Thomson Mason, first elected governor of Michigan,
has a brief bibliography that describes the conflict.)
New York State
My grandfather Marshall Kay's monograph on the geology of the Utica Quadrangle
(1953) is still available from the New
York State Geological Survey.
Newfoundland
The Geological Survey of Newfoundland
and Labrador has a good site up describing their catalog of on-line
and print products of maps of the province.
Internet
Tracey LaQuey Parker's User's
Directory of Computer Networks is a 1990 who's who and what's where
of the Internet. The networks have all mutated beyond recognition
since then but a lot of the people are still around. (Put an Amazon
link here.)
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Updated 30 March 1998