Map Collection of Charles University
Virtual museum of globes
Created in 2007 at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. It has been continuously replenished to currently include 113 virtual globes.
Harvard Map Collection
Since 2011, the Harvard University Map Collection has offered a possibility to examine the photographs, one by one, of two old globes by Gerard Mercator. They are not virtual globes but only static two-dimensional photographs, which may be zoomed in or rotated by 90°. It is possible to watch one phase of the digital globe processing.
Gerard Mercator Video
A video dedicated to Gerard Mercator, his museum in Belgium and digitalisation of Mercator’s globe by the team from the University in Ghent.
Digital repository at Charles University
Maps, atlases and graphics, made accessible within the TEMAP project in SW Digitool. In 2013, there were 31,200 maps, 32 publisher’s atlases and 18 collector’s atlases.
StaréMapy.cz
The StaréMapy.cz project offers 11,000 georeferenced old maps, which may be further used and compared with the representation of the same locations on the maps of today. It uses the Georeferencer tool and it is developed as part of the TEMAP project.
Geographical bibliography of the Czech Republic online
It contains 30,000 full texts and objects attached to records and a total of 180,000 bibliographical records of Bohemian geographic documents.
OldMapsOnline.org
Old maps portal provides access to 20 map collections worldwide.
Portal of Professor RNDr. Karel Kuchař
The Portal provides access to 80 full texts, New Year cards, archives and cartographic documents of this prominent cartographer.
TEMAP: UK partner to the project
Procedures and outputs of the TEMAP project on behalf of Charles University in Prague.
