- February 10, 2021
- Rachel Mead
Archaeology and Atlascope
How the City Archaeologist of Boston uses our tool to dig
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- January 29, 2021
- Garrett Dash Nelson
Maps that will make your head spin
Transforming our panoramic views into virtual reality offers an opportunity to jump inside the map’s perspective
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- January 28, 2021
- Garrett Dash Nelson and Lauren Chen
A new view into urban renewal in Boston
Announcing 124 newly-digitized objects from the Boston Redevelopment Authority Collection
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- January 20, 2021
- Rachel Mead
Highlights from Jamaica Plain By Map
Revisit some of the places we visited in our Atlascope tour of Jamaica Plain
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- January 20, 2021
- Garrett Dash Nelson
Bending Lines in Cartographic Perspectives
Our new exhibition is featured in the Cartographic Collections section of the NACIS journal
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- January 13, 2021
- Rachel Mead and Garrett Dash Nelson
Confronting the content of collections
A Twitter bot trawling through our digital collections brings up questions
Read more- January 4, 2021
- LMEC Staff
Roaring Twenties Countdown
These maps from our collections, one for each 20s decade starting in 1520, helped us count down to New Years 2021
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- December 30, 2020
- Rachel Mead and Garrett Dash Nelson
Stretching the world at the end of a war
A Newsmap from December 1945 shows how cartographic projection promoted the U.S. view of itself as a global power
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- December 23, 2020
- Rachel Mead and Garrett Dash Nelson
Six news stories from 2020, seen through Atlascope
Over the past year, sometimes the news invited us into the past
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- December 21, 2020
- Garrett Dash Nelson and Belle Lipton
Introducing our Public Data project
The Leventhal Map & Education Center is breaking new ground in bringing geospatial data empowerment to the public, supported by a grant from the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub
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