Research Guides: Maps and Cartographic resources: News & Other Links

NEWS

New and exciting maps, atlases and geospatial data available in the map room or from the Maps & Cartography resources guide.

I-81 Viaduct Project - UPDATE
Provides the latest information and updates on the current removal of the 1-81 Viaduct through the city of Syracuse.
Onondaga County 2022 orthoimagery
NEW 2022 orthoimagery in now downloadable from the New York State GIS Clearinghouse.
New York State GIS Clearinghouse
The Clearinghouse has had a total revamp and has reorganized their site for accessing GIS data layers for the State.
New York City Digital Air Photos 2022
Just released for free download. The New York State GIS Clearinghouse has just released six inch/pixel digital aerial photography for all five Boroughs of New York City.
Info on the latest release of ArcGIS
City of Syracuse ZONING atlas
The Syracuse City Zoning Office now has its ZONING atlas online. The atlas is in 27 sheets, each are in a .PDF format and the sheets are 34" by 44". Each sheet has a notice of when it was last updated.

CIA World Factbook
Basic information and maps for every country in the world. All Copyright free
CIA and other US Government maps from U of Texas
Great site for public domain maps produced by the US Government compiled by the Map Library at Univ. of Texas
US State Department TRAVEL WARNINGS
Travel alerts and warnings for US travelers going abroad
US Board of Geographic Names
Links to both Domestic and foreign place names
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Search for placenames
Map Projections
The link on this page displays examples of the major mapping projections.

Mapping Inequality
From the University of Richmond - A collection of scanned redlining maps from the HOLC (Home Owners' Loan Corporation) of 150 cities across the USA plus the descriptions for each map and each section.

Office of Strategic Services Maps - OSS
From Stanford University - An exhibit of Stanford collection of 700+ OSS maps produced during World War Two.
The SU map collection has a collection of 640 OSS maps that can be searched for in the Classic Catalog.

Northeast US Interurban Trolley lines
Descriptions and maps of the all the regional urban trolley lines in the northeast US.
Syracuse Trolley Lines
maps and descriptions of the eight trolley lines that operated in the Syracuse are from 1859-1939.