Slate

A 19th-Century Relief Map That Let Students Explore the Roman Empire by Touch

The tactile map, an innovation of the 19 th century, allowed both blind and sighted students to feel their way across a given geography. Writing for the digital archive 19 th-Century Disability: ...
PBS

Relief Maps at the University of Wisconsin

Melanie McCalmont discusses the relationship between the landscape and life in Wisconsin. Melanie McCalmont, Geographer, shares human stories behind the UW-Madison collection of 3-D relief maps. The ...
Slate

Gorgeous 1914 Relief Maps of Six National Parks

The Vault is Slate’s history blog. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @slatevault, and find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. In the 1910s, promoters of the ...
insider.si.edu

Relief Map of the United States

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The left panel of a mural containing ...
Scientific American

Relief Maps from Aerial Photographs

Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific publications (many of them can be found at www ...
Scientific American

Relief Map Construction

Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific publications (many of them can be found at www ...
Rappler

[The Slingshot] When heritage’s wrecking ball comes from the National Museum

'The Relief Map of the Philippines and lagoon at the eastern end of the Rizal Park is no more. It was demolished by the National Museum of the Philippines. It is now all rubble.' It is a gross ...