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May 10, 2021
Rachel Mead

An Atlascope tour of Newton

Highlights from exploring Atlascope at our Newton By Map event

May 6, 2021
Alicia Svenson, Danielle Rose, and Garrett Dash Nelson

Studying the Bending Lines exhibition in New England Museums Now

A writeup about a study of our digital exhibition appears in the Spring 2021 edition of the New England Museum Association's journal

Apr 29, 2021
Rachel Mead

Riding along the mail route map

Our map bot found some treasure buried at the post office

Apr 27, 2021
Garrett Dash Nelson

Sizing up the map with Insizeor

Our new scale-comparison tool lets you compare big, small, and in between

Apr 22, 2021
Rachel Mead

Boston's Oldest Buildings and Where to Find Them—on Atlascope

Our Atlascope tool makes the perfect digital companion to a new book on Boston's oldest buildings from the City Archaeologist

Apr 16, 2021
Belle Lipton

Get to Know Your Data: City of Boston Parks Department

We spoke with City of Boston analysts about creating and maintaining publicly engaging and socially responsible datasets

Apr 9, 2021
LMEC Staff

Teaching with Maps in the Past

We use maps for teaching every day at LMEC, just like educators have been doing for centuries!

Apr 7, 2021
Connie C. Chin

Peoples of the Pacific

In a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical and a Covarrubias anthropological map, portrayals of ethnic diversity raise questions about images and stereotypes

Apr 6, 2021
Richard Pegg

Unique Perspectives on Kyoto

The curator of the MacLean Collection examines graphic representations of urban Japan from the Tokugawa period

Apr 2, 2021
Rachel Mead

April Showers Bring Map Flowers!

A selection of maps from Aprils past 💐

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