New Map Collection
Available from the Ball State University Libraries’ Repository
The Ball State University
Libraries’ GIS Research and Map Collection (GRMC) includes a collection of
nearly 140,000 maps and other cartographic resources. Now the GRMC is making more maps from the
collection available online via the Libraries’ Digital Media Repository.
The newest DMR collection, World Map Projections, features a set of
maps from the Central Intelligence Agency depicting maps of the world created
in a unique format—a map projection. The
collection provides online access to 22 azimuthal equidistant projection maps
of the world dating from 1942 to 1990.
This map projection creates maps where the center point is represented
by different world cities—Kinshasa, Frankfurt, Panama City, Cairo, Moscow. Using this projection, all points on the map
are drawn at proportionately correct distances from that center point.
This collection offers
users unique world views and provides a valuable research tool for students of
geography. Users can access the maps
anywhere with available Web access and can save the maps to their computer.
The DMR provides access to
several map collections: Muncie and Delaware County Historic Maps and
Atlases, United States Transportation Maps, Ball State University Campus Maps,
American Cities Historic Maps, Indiana Natural Resources Maps, International
Historic Maps, Maps of the World (CIA current maps), Delaware County Indiana Aerial Plat Maps, Indiana Historic County
Atlases, United States Soil Maps, and United States Topographic Maps, and the
New York Times World War I Maps.
For more information about
using the DMR, please contact the GRMC at 765-285-1097 or the Archives and
Special Collections at 765-285-5078.
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