Urban Maps Digital

Urban Maps Digital (UMD) focuses on the digitalization of historic, previously unpublished, or long forgotten maps, highlighting the maps as artifacts in their own right.

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The Lost Churches of the Cracow Suburb on the Plans of Lviv

18.06.2011

The comparison of various maps brought forth an attempt to locate the sites of the lost churches of the Cracow Suburb, and provide brief historical information on them.

"Leopoltvis". In Search of Lviv's River

04.05.2011

A video presentation in the form of "digital storytelling", employing old maps, city photographs, and other materials. The presentation tells of the river Poltva, its tributaries, and other bodies of water in Lviv.

Lviv on Maps by Jozef Chowaniec

16.03.2011

Maps of the city of Lviv, dating to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries demonstrate the dynamic development of this Royal Capital City. Among the most informative and precise of these, are maps by Józef Chowaniec.