The Map Room

Geography Matters, the ESRI blog, has a post up on GIS and map libraries: “While not all institutions manage holdings of this size [the Library of Congress’s map collection], libraries and museums are realizing that a GIS can not only help organize their growing collections, but can help make the information more easily available to their communities.” Examples given. I’ve seen many GIS-based interfaces to map collections myself. I’m of two minds: I don’t much like the interfaces, but I’m not able to come up with an alternative.