{"id":8338,"date":"2012-04-19T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T16:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingottawa.ca\/?p=8338"},"modified":"2013-01-21T09:26:26","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T14:26:26","slug":"urban-planet-old-maps-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2012\/04\/19\/urban-planet-old-maps-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Planet: Old Maps Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/?attachment_id=28359\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28359\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"oldmap\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/oldmap.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"315\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/?attachment_id=25153\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25153\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"feature-urban-planet\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/feature-urban-planet.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"63\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Urban Planet is\u00a0a daily roundup of\u00a0\u00a0blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We\u2019ll be on the lookout for websites outside the country that approach themes related to urban experiences and issues.<\/em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spacingmedia.com\/uploads\/images\/line-grey-1pixel-600wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Google Maps has revolutionized the way we approach cartography, but really old specimens have a <em>je ne sais quoi<\/em> that is tough to replicate in digital form. Old Maps Online, an initiative of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.port.ac.uk\/research\/gbhgis\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Great Britain Historical GIS Project<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.klokantech.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Klokan Technologies GmbH, Switzerland<\/a>, combines the ease of digital searching with the magic of older maps &#8211; allowing users to search the physical collections of the world&#8217;s libraries.\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldmapsonline.org\/\">Old Maps Online)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Image from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidrumsey.com\/luna\/servlet\/detail\/RUMSEY~8~1~1490~160028:Versuch-Einer-Karte-Zur-?bersicht-D?showTip=false&amp;showTipAdvancedSearch=false&amp;title=Search+Results%3A+List_no+equal+to+%272515.012%27&amp;thumbnailViewUrlKey=link.view.search.url&amp;helpUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lunaimaging.com%2Fsupport%2F6_0%2FLUNA%2Fen%2FAbout_Luna_and_Insight.htm&amp;fullTextSearchChecked=&amp;advancedSearchUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lunaimaging.com%2Fsupport%2F6_0%2FLUNA%2Fen%2FAdvanced_Search.htm\">Old Maps Online<\/a><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><em>For more stories from around the planet, check out Spacing on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Spacing\/111174192229238\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Spacing\">Twitter<\/a>.\u00a0 Do you have an Urban Planet worthy article you&#8217;d like to share? Send the link to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:urbanplanet@spacing.ca\">urbanplanet@spacing.ca<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Urban Planet is\u00a0a daily roundup of\u00a0\u00a0blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We\u2019ll be on the lookout for websites outside the country that approach themes related to urban experiences and issues. Google Maps has revolutionized the way we approach cartography, but really old specimens have a je ne sais quoi that is<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2012\/04\/19\/urban-planet-old-maps-online\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Urban Planet: Old Maps Online&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4081,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5302],"tags":[882,1135,4676,4677,1731,550],"class_list":["post-8338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-facebook","tag-google","tag-klokan-technologies-gmbh","tag-switzerland","tag-twitter","tag-urban-planet"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Urban Planet: Old Maps Online - Spacing Ottawa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2012\/04\/19\/urban-planet-old-maps-online\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Urban Planet: Old Maps Online - Spacing Ottawa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Urban Planet is\u00a0a daily roundup of\u00a0\u00a0blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. 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