October 19, 2012

Check Out OLR’s Map Room!

Have you visited our Map Room recently? With links to scores of maps, there are maps relating to every committee, from a map on the Aging page showing the poverty rate for seniors by county nationwide to a map on the Veterans page showing the veteran population in each state.

The map added most recently links aerial photos of Connecticut from 1934 to current Google Map images of the same location and was produced by the University of Connecticut’s Map and Geographic Information Center. It’s a fascinating way to examine neighborhood change. For example, in 1934 the Park River was still above ground in Hartford and flowed through Bushnell Park.