WWII on Land, Sea & Air Charts: The Demand and Challenge for Cartography (1942-1945)
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This presentation, given at the 2019 ACMLA CARTO Conference, deals with the wide variety of mapping that was required during the Second World War. It looks at the obstacles encountered, the cartographic and navigational technologies developed, and the legacies left to us as a result of these various mapping initiatives.
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The Lloyd Reeds Map Collection has approximately 3,000 WWII maps and charts and has been actively partnering with other institutions to digitize their collections, bringing our current total of maps online to close to 10,000. They can be accessed from the following link:
https://library.mcmaster.ca/wwii-topographic-map-series