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We use maps, geography, and history to understand the connection between people and places in Boston, New England, and beyond. linktr.ee/bplmaps
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Where else can you see an airplane fly over a car driving over a train that’s traveling above a boat (that's approximately 13.5 feet or less)?✈️🚗🚃⛵️ Map: Boston University, Charles River campus master plan (1986), Map of the town of Brookline, Mass... (1855) Images: Digital Commonwealth

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❤️🍎🍉 COLOR 🍉🍎❤️ is worth one thousand words Map: Map of New York City showing concrete socialism in red, and private enterprises in white, 1895 (1895) #bpl #LMEC #maps #bostonmaps #localhistory #bostonhistory #bostonmuseum #thingstodoinboston #bostontourism #history #nycmap #manhattan

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While it’s a little cold for a walk through the park, how about a trip through time? Explore these new Atlascope tours, and be brought along for a journey through Boston’s past and present here:

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For a winter as chilly as this one, it’s good to remember all the fun to be had out in the snow! ❄️☃️ Map: Winter sports map of the Berkshire Hills (1936)

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Please consider donating to the David J. Weaver GIS Research Fund this February! 🗺️ This fund was established to document the history of GIS development and to build the future of computer cartography collections through publishing original GIS research.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

If you’ve been given the advice to “follow your heart”, we have a map for that 💕🗺️ If you’re curious, we’ll be heading to the Isle of Happiness. Hope to see you there! Map: A pictorial map of loveland (1943)

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

🚉 To celebrate Transit Equity Month, we & @bplmaps.bsky.social are hosting a trivia night all about Boston transit! 📆 Test your knowledge of the city’s rails, routes, stations, & more on Feb. 25 at 6:00pm at the Newsfeed Café. Register to learn more: www.leventhalmap.org/event/trivia...

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Any true New Englander would recognize this legendary route… 🏇🏼 Map: Historic and modern Boston-Cambridge-Salem Lexington Concord [ca. 1947–1955]

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Before you ask: yes, you are seeing double and yes, we’ll explain 🌍 Map: Chart of the World On Mercators Projection, Showing the Extent and Distribution of the British Empire (1890)

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We hate to break it to you, but we actually have a cemetery to thank for the development of our park system 🪦 Maps: Plan of the cemetery of Mount Auburn (1841), Mount Auburn, avenues and paths (1848) Images: Digital Commonwealth

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Did you know Boston’s Emerald Necklace park system was originally planned to be much more extensive? 🌳 Map: City of Boston plan of Columbia Road, showing connection with Franklin Park and Marine Park... (1897) Article: National Association of Realtors

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