Maps in the News: Baltimore
The Ball State University
Libraries’ GIS Research and Map Collection (GRMC) has dozens of maps of
Baltimore, Maryland, available for research and learning. The collection includes nautical charts of
the harbor area of Baltimore, U.S. Geological Survey historic and modern
topographic maps that show the development of the city, and modern and historic
street maps.
The Maryland Geological
Survey published maps available from the GRMC of the topography, election
districts, and geological formations of Baltimore from 1925 and 1939. The
Underground Railroad: Maryland’s Network to Freedom was published in 2010
and includes important landmarks of the Underground Railroad in Baltimore, and Baltimore: A House Divided is a map
depicting the events of the Civil War in the Chesapeake Bay area.
The
Washington Post published
two maps showing the races of the residents of Baltimore in relation to the
neighborhoods with the most vacant houses.
The racial map was published by The Cooper Center for Public Service at
the University of Virginia. The map of
vacant buildings (15,928 in Baltimore) was published in 2012 by Elliott Plack.
The GRMC is located on the
second floor of Bracken Library.
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