Old maps on net

[Gail Kampmeier]

The Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names also specializes in locating
place names from the past
http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/
from our list of geocoding sources for the database system, Mandala
http://pherocera.inhs.uiuc.edu/geocoding.htm:

"Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN). Getty Information
Institute, Los Angeles, California is a comprehensive, international
gazetteer of over 900,000 place names. Like Encarta, you can search
on a single feature without a country name. It returns the continent,
nation, state, county, latitude and longitude in degrees and minutes
with direction. Geographic coordinates for most places represent the
center of that place. For rivers or streams, the source is
referenced. TGN also references the source of its information. Names
also contain flags that indicate usage: C for current name; H for
historical name; V for vernacular name; and O for a variant name in a
language other than the vernacular. Made for studies of art history,
these variations in usage can be a boon for names no longer used or
whose common spellings vary."

Cheers!
Gail

>I have some problems to find place names - localities from the past.
>
>I have found some old maps from 1910 and I just make a scan and they are now
>available on my website www.coleoptera.org in <section> Zoogeography.
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Gail E. Kampmeier, Research Entomologist, Illinois Natural History Survey,
Box 5 NSRC, MC-637, 1101 W. Peabody, Urbana, IL 61801 USA
ph. 217-333-2824; fax 217-333-6784; email: gkamp at uiuc.edu
http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/cee/therevid/gkamp.html
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