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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007Eighteenth-century maps and their lotting plans remain valuable frames of reference for 21st century real estate deals.
More than 1,000 property owners in Aurora recently got a notice in the mail about flood plain maps. The most important advice that Ken Schroth, the city’s public works director, can give them is this: Don’t throw that piece of paper away without reading it.
The Vermont State Archives in the United States has announced it will be putting the lot maps used in the 18th century …
New floodplain maps could mean changes in insurance rates for Kane County home and business owners.
Pirated electronic maps are sending Shanghai drivers the wrong way … one says he keeps being directed toward the river by mistake.
Fires are burning again in Southern California, and the map makers are hard at work helping people know what’s happening where. Below, maps relating to the Corral Fire in Malibu: Click to continue reading…
Two and a half centuries after men braved the trackless wilderness to map Vermont, using tools as simple as long chains to measure out towns and lots, their work is going online to help lawyers, landowners and historians.
MONTPELIER — It the mid-18th century, teams of men spread out across Vermont to map the tractless wilderness. … - By Wilson Ring Associated Press
an Beaupre has come up with a couple of giant reasons to get children excited about geography, and their names are Marco and Polo. … - By Sarah Hinckley Rutland Herald
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — It the mid-18th century, teams of men spread out across Vermont to map the tractless wilderness. …