{"id":736,"date":"2009-11-18T09:57:03","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T14:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/blog\/?p=736"},"modified":"2010-06-16T10:59:06","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T15:59:06","slug":"zoomable-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2009\/11\/18\/zoomable-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoomable Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/28168\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-740\" title=\"Example\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2009\/11\/zoomex2.jpg\" alt=\"Example\" width=\"200\" height=\"121\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As this is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/geography-action\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Geography Awareness Week<\/a>, I thought I would highlight some of the <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/?op0=word&amp;filter0=Zoom&amp;op1=OR&amp;filter1=map&amp;op2=word&amp;filter2=&amp;q=view\/images\" target=\"_blank\">zoomable maps <\/a>available on House Divided. Some of these maps provide bird-eyes view of various towns and cities \u2013 including <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/27663\" target=\"_blank\">Alton<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/27655\" target=\"_blank\">Cedar Rapids<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/27653\" target=\"_blank\">Des Moines<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/24459\" target=\"_blank\">Harrisburg<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/28145\" target=\"_blank\">New York<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/24440\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/27214\" target=\"_blank\">Providence<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/24464\" target=\"_blank\">Washington D.C<\/a>. In the <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/24465\/zoomify\">Springfield map<\/a>, you can look for Abraham Lincoln\u2019s house (# 29 on the map). Other maps provide nice overviews of coastlines, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/28168\" target=\"_blank\">Louisiana<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/28189\" target=\"_blank\">Carolinas<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/28169\" target=\"_blank\">Virginia<\/a>. House Divided also has zoomable maps of battlefields, including <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/27105\" target=\"_blank\">several of Gettysburg<\/a>. Click on \u201cZoomify\u201d at the top right of a map in House Divided in order to view it as a zoomable map.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As this is Geography Awareness Week, I thought I would highlight some of the zoomable maps available on House Divided. Some of these maps provide bird-eyes view of various towns and cities \u2013 including Alton, Cedar Rapids, Des Moines, Harrisburg, New York, Philadelphia, Providence, and Washington D.C. In the Springfield map, you can look for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,12],"tags":[163],"class_list":["post-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-19th-century-1840-1880","category-maps","tag-us-the-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2046,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions\/2046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}