Map and Geospatial Hub news

Our June Map of the Month is a 1905 “Map of the Denver & Rio Grande System” depicting the extent of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad at the time as well as its connecting lines and variation in rail type throughout the system. The Denver and Rio Grande was one of the largest and most significa...

Our May Map of the Month is this 1930s “Map of the World with Flags of the Leading Nations”. It shows the various complicated international borders of the interwar period as well as illustrations of the flags of the world’s leading nations and a plethora of related information on its reverse side.  ...

Our latest web app, Western North America Vegetation and Locust Map, is now live and available to the public. Map of a Portion of Western North America Showing the Distribution of Vegetation with Reference to the Multiplication of and Means o...

Our April Map of the Month is titled “Carte de la Californie” and compares five recreations of historically significant maps of California to show the evolution of cartographic knowledge of the region. It was originally published as a supplemental material to Diderot’s Encyclopédie, and this particu...

Our March Map of the Month is this historic 1897 "Map of Cuba” published by an American company during the Cuban War of Independence, mere months before the start of the Spanish-American War. It portrays the various provinces, towns, and railroads of Cuba as well as its surrounding islands and close...

Our February Map of the Month is an early edition of this map of “Oregon, Upper California, and New Mexico” published in 1849. It depicts the western United States shortly after the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe was signed, showing the new border and territories gained by the United States after the Mexi...

Our latest web app, Linguistic Map of Mexico and Central America, is now live and available to the public. Linguistic Map of Mexico and Central America, Cyrus Thomas assisted by J.R. Swanton, 1909 Geographic Coverage: Mexi...

The index for our new map series index, Southwest Germany to the Alps, is now available to the public in this interactive web map. The Southwest Germany to the Alps map series index is an interactive web map that displays the topographic features and municipalities of ...

The Map and Geospatial Hub at ASU Library has a new project-based student worker position available for Spring/Summer 2022. The posting is officially listed as “Library Aide III” (job ID: 75253BR), but the working title is GIS & Multimedia Research Associate.   The position will support a new p...