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Giovanni Maggini created maps that were always as accurate as necessary and as beautiful as possible—as described by Thomas Bachmann, who presented the first in-depth study on Maggini at the International Atlas Days. Maggini was a learned engineer and cartographer in the cartographic department of Orell Füssli. He... Read more

After the successful first part, a further 2,256 digitised maps and town plans from the oldest and most beautiful atlases of the 16th to 18th centuries from the Maps and Panoramas Department of the Zentralbibliothek Zürich (ZB) are waiting to be georeferenced online by volunteers. On the OldMapsOnline... Read more

The St. Gallen Globe Online has been enhanced with animated content and numerous explanations. Following its relaunch in August 2024, selected points in the starry sky and on the map of the Earth tell stories of sea monsters, legendary islands, and voyages of discovery. The travelogues and routes... Read more

In 2023, the Map Collection of the Zurich Central Library (ZB) successfully carried out the citizen science project “Prachtsatlanten.” For this project, over 2,900 old maps were selected from the oldest and most beautiful Prachtsatlanten collections dating from the 15th to the 17th centuries and digitized. Citizen scientists... Read more

16,000 historical maps from the Zurich State Archives and the Zurich Central Library can now be viewed in the GIS browser of the Canton of Zurich. Thanks to participatory projects such as crowdsourcing and citizen science, dozens of volunteers were able to precisely geolocate the old maps in... Read more

The base model of the famous St. Gallen Globe has been online since late November 2022. On the website St. Gallen Globe 1576, interested visitors can explore the 16th-century terrestrial and celestial globes digitally. The St. Gallen Globe is one of Switzerland’s most significant cultural-historical artifacts. It combines... Read more

On February 16, 2023, a new citizen science project “Prachtsatlanten” was launched at the Zurich Central Library (ZB). The ZB’s map collection has had national maps from the oldest and most beautiful atlases in its holdings digitized. Citizen scientists are invited to georeference the more than 2,900 maps.... Read more

The Maps Professional Network is planning to publish an overview of all cartographic collections in Switzerland next year; this publication will be released digitally and updated every five years. The information will be compiled and submitted independently by the institutions; the deadline is Wednesday, May 31, 2023. We... Read more

An invitation to everyone to precisely locate maps from four centuries and trace changes in the environment. Over 2,500 digitized historical maps of Zurich and Switzerland from the Maps and Panoramas Department of the Zurich Central Library are waiting to be georeferenced using Georeferencer. For the “citizen science”... Read more

The Swiss library world is currently experiencing a fundamental system change. Therefore, the data basis for the spatial map search in Kartenportal.CH is also gradually being placed on a new base. This extensive work will run until the end of 2021. As of 1 April 2021, it can... Read more