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Feb 10, 2021
Rachel Mead

Archaeology and Atlascope

How the City Archaeologist of Boston uses our tool to dig

Jan 29, 2021
Garrett Dash Nelson

Maps that will make your head spin

Transforming our panoramic views into virtual reality offers an opportunity to jump inside the map's perspective

Jan 28, 2021
Garrett Dash Nelson and Lauren Chen

A new view into urban renewal in Boston

Announcing 124 newly-digitized objects from the Boston Redevelopment Authority Collection

Jan 20, 2021
Garrett Dash Nelson

Bending Lines in Cartographic Perspectives

Our new exhibition is featured in the Cartographic Collections section of the NACIS journal

Jan 20, 2021
Rachel Mead

Highlights from Jamaica Plain By Map

Revisit some of the places we visited in our Atlascope tour of Jamaica Plain

Jan 13, 2021
Rachel Mead and Garrett Dash Nelson

Confronting the content of collections

A Twitter bot trawling through our digital collections brings up questions

Jan 4, 2021
LMEC Staff

Roaring Twenties Countdown

These maps from our collections, one for each 20s decade starting in 1520, helped us count down to New Years 2021

Dec 30, 2020
Rachel Mead and Garrett Dash Nelson

Stretching the world at the end of a war

A Newsmap from December 1945 shows how cartographic projection promoted the U.S. view of itself as a global power

Dec 23, 2020
Rachel Mead and Garrett Dash Nelson

Six news stories from 2020, seen through Atlascope

Over the past year, sometimes the news invited us into the past

Dec 21, 2020
Garrett Dash Nelson and Belle Lipton

Introducing our Public Data project

The Leventhal Map & Education Center is breaking new ground in bringing geospatial data empowerment to the public, supported by a grant from the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub

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