Tagged As: Howard Veregin

Update on National Spatial Reference System Modernization Plans

The National Geodetic Survey has updated its plans and schedule for modernization of the National Spatial Reference System.

Using Google’s My Maps Tool To Make a Simple Web Map

Google’s My Maps tool is an easy way to make a simple web map. In this posting, My Maps is used to make a web map of unincorporated communities in Kewaunee county.

How Wisconsin’s Counties Got Their Shapes

Wisconsin’s county boundaries have attained their current shapes as a result of numerous boundary changes that date back to the formation of Wisconsin Territory in 1836.

Time Travel on your Smartphone

You can use historic maps and a simple app to explore the past using your smartphone.

NGS Offers Solutions for Data Transformations to Modernized Reference System

Coordinate transformations will be the prevalent method used to update legacy geospatial data for the modernized National Spatial Reference System.

History of Cartography Project Launches New Video Series

The History of Cartography Project has launched a new online video series to celebrate publication of “Cartography in the European Enlightenment” (Volume 4 of the “History of Cartography”).

Learning to Live with Five Different Kinds of Coordinates

Users of the modernized National Spatial Reference System will need to understand the differences between five different types of coordinates.

Madison, Wisconsin: A View from the Eighteen Nineties

View an interactive photographic panorama of Madison from the late 1890s taken from the Capitol dome.

Explore our new Public Land Survey System Locator app

Do you need to know where you are in the Public Land Survey System (PLSS) network?

The Foot is Dead! Long Live the Foot!

The National Institute of Standards and Technology and National Geodetic Survey have announced their final decision to deprecate use of the U.S. survey foot.