The Gardner Family Map Room will be closed December 18, 2021 – January 10, 2022 for the Holidays.

Please see the Maps Libguide for links to a wide variety of online maps.  

Also, check out this blog:  WindRose  for even more links.

Or send e-mail to wagner.19@osu.edu.

Starting with Fall Semester 2021, the Gardner Family Map Room is open Monday – Friday from 10am – 6pm.  

It is closed on Weekends and Holidays.  

University Breaks are “By Appointment Only”

Welcome back!!!

Due to COVID-19,  We are closed to the public at this time.  

Please see our LIBGuide for online access to a wide variety of maps. 

Reference assistance is available by e-mail.

Mercator 

GeoGuesser

Buckymap

Enjoy!

Do leaf blowers wake you too early on Saturday Mornings?  Do the jets landing & taking off interrupt dinner conversations?  Is there a constant swishing sound from the nearby interstate?

Want to find some relative peace in the city?

Then check out the National Transportation Noise Map!

Since it’s beginning in Oct 1941, the CIA’s Cartography Center has been creating maps.  In a recent article, “The Mapmaker’s Craft:  a History of Cartography at the CIA”, the story is told by decade.  Here is a link to the maps.

Of interest to OSU, is the founder of the Cartography Center:  Arthur H. Robinson.

Alaska in 3D.  Starting in September, the general public has been able to access accurate maps of Alaska.

“The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) partnered with the University of Minnesota and other members of the academic research community, private sector and international partners to create this first-ever publicly available, high-resolution, satellite-based elevation data map of Alaska. Maps of the entire Arctic will be available by mid-2017.”

A blog by Betsy Mason & Greg Miller on the National Geographic site, “All Over the Map” covers many areas of interest.  19th Century School Girls, American National Parks and mountain cartography are some of the topics.

From the Guardian:  “The Rise and Fall of Great World Cities:  5,700 years of Urbanisation”  has an animated map  of the world’s cities.    The population data set is included.