Dedham, Massachusetts 15 Minute Digital Raster Graphic

Description:

This layer is a digital raster graphic of the historic 15-minute USGS topographic map of the Dedham, Massachusetts quadrangle. The survey date (ground condition) of the original paper map is 1884-1886, the edition date is 1894 and this map was reprinted in July, 1909. A digital raster graphic (DRG) is a scanned image of a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) standard series topographic map, including all map collar information. The image inside the map neatline is geo-referenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Universal Transverse Mercator projection. The horizontal positional accuracy and datum of the DRG matches the accuracy and datum of the source map.

Creator:

Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library

Provider:

Harvard

Resource Class:

Datasets

Resource Type:

Raster data

Subject:

imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, Maps, Topographic, Geological Survey (U.S.), Land Use, Infrastructure, Human settlements, Bodies of water, and Landforms

Temporal Coverage:

1884-1886

Date Issued:

2004-12

Spatial Coverage:

Massachusetts, Dedham, Abington, Avon, Boston, Braintree, Brockton, Canton, Dover, Easton, Foxborough, Mansfield, Milton, Norton, Norwood, Quincy, Randolph, Sharon, Stoughton, Walpole, West Bridgewater, and Westwood

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

GeoTIFF