Geography News and Events
- Rumsey to Give Brownbag Talk on Thursday at 3:30
- Department of Geography Picnic: May 2nd at Vilas Park
- Congratulations! — Geography Student Awards
- Friday Geography Brownbag with Hallie Eakin: 12 – 1
- UW-Madison Geography AAG Party: April 17th
- 2008 Geography Student Symposium
- Leif Brottem Awarded Pre-Doctoral Fellowship from the West Africa Research Association
- Zach Johnson Wins CaGIS-ACSM Map Competition
- Geography Student Commons Opens
- Geography Undergraduates Awarded College of Letters
and Science Undergraduate Scholarships
Trewartha Lecture — Friday, May 9th
David Rumsey: "Giving Maps a Second Life With Digital Technologies"
David
Rumsey will show how his increasing use of digital technologies and the Internet over the past decade
has transformed his work as a historical map scholar and collector. Using imaging software, GIS, and
popular applications like Google Earth and Second Life, Rumsey has given new life to old maps, both in their
dissemination and our ability to analyze and understand them, thereby unlocking the information held in
maps for use in a wide range of disciplines. He will discuss and demonstrate how he offers these software
tools and a growing number of digitized maps themselves on his
free public online map library.
*Please note new time: The lecture begins at 3:00pm in Room 180 of Science Hall.