Key Highlights
- But there is something special about a physical map that the GPS in your car or phone just can't provide.
- When laid out, a physical map can provide a greater sense of scale and place, hints at the allure of far-off lands, and a reminder that we're a small part of a big world with a complex history.
- A Library that lets students handle history Students from the class Geography 370: Maps, Territory, and Power explore the gallery exhibition Founding Memories: America at 250 on view through June 2016.
- Greta Rybus/for NPR hide caption toggle caption Greta Rybus/for NPR That's something that's revealed to students at the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education, at the University of Southern Maine in Portland.
- Students can view maps and globes, both modern and some going back hundreds of years, from all over the world.
