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From Childhood Fancy to Space Age Discovery

Posted by: Julie Stoner

This is a guest post by Geography and Map Division summer intern, Wayne Hastings, who worked on processing and housing the John Parr Snyder Collection. Imagine this. During the summer of 1972, the United States was in the midst of one of the most wildly impressive eras of technological and scientific development – the Space …

The Hungarian Parliamentary Building sits on the banks of the Danube. The GeoTIFF locates the building about 150 meters to the northeast of its true location.

The Secret Life of GeoTIFFs

Posted by: Carissa Pastuch

This is a guest post by Rachel Trent, Digital Collections and Automation Coordinator in the Geography and Map Division. The image below is of a TIFF file, but not just any TIFF. Hidden inside are coordinates that bind the image to a specific place on Earth. For every pixel in the image, an estimated latitude …