The Map and Geographic Information Center, located at the Centennial Science and Engineering Library, is the largest and most varied collection of maps, atlases, and other related material in the state of New Mexico. The following sections describe some of our material and services.

MAGIC has gotten two new computers in to run the ArcView software!!! They are much faster and have double the RAM of our old machine. At the same time, we got an upgrade for the ArcView program, so we are now running ArcView version 3.2. Come by and see how much difference a new machine can make! It also means that we have TWO machines, so there will be fewer cases where you have to wait for someone else to finish their project.

CARTOGRAPHIC RESOURCES IN MAGIC

Searching LIBROS (the library's online catalog) will identify atlases and other book material related to cartography housed in MAGIC, CSEL and other UNMGL libraries. With the exception of some maps published by the federal government, the sheet map collection in MAGIC is uncataloged and will not have records in LIBROS. MAGIC staff will be able to assist you in finding uncataloged material.

GOVERNMENT RESOURCES IN MAGIC

The University of New Mexico is a regional depository for government information. Most cartographic related material is housed in MAGIC. We are a depository for the following agencies:

• United States Geological Survey (USGS)
• Forest Service
• Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
• Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
• National Imagery and Mapping Agencey (NIMA) (formerly the Defense Mapping Agency, DMA)
• National Park Service
• Army Corps of Engineers

HISTORIC MATERIAL AVAILABLE IN MAGIC

While our collection holds a number of maps that would be considered historic for various places around the world, we do have some specific collections for historic research:

• Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for New Mexico.
• Government Land Office Plat Maps, New Mexico (partial coverage) late 1800s/early 1900s.
• USGS Topograhic Maps, various states, partial coverage, late 1800s to 1940.
• New Mexico State Highway Maps, 1923-1959.
• New Mexico and the Southwest, 1700s to 1940.

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY IN MAGIC

MAGIC has and extensive collection of aerial photography for the City of Albuquerque ranging in dates from 1969 to 1990, in various scales. Some areas of New Mexico are available with various dates and scales. For more aerial photography as well as satellite imagery check out the Earth Data Analyis Center.

COMPUTER MAPPING AND CD-ROMS IN MAGIC

MAGIC has ArcView 3.1 available to users. At this time we cannot provide training for ArcView and only minimal staff support is available; however, there is an easy to use tutorial available. We can generate an ArcView map for you, if we have (or are able to find) the necessary data sets. The only charge for this service is the cost of printing the map(s). The computer that houses ArcView 3.1 has an internal Iomega Zip drive, so you can take your project with you and not worrry that the data will be lost.

MAGIC has a extensive resources available for use with ArcView 3.1. A partial list of available resources is here.

Climatology information, place name finders,and an interactive introduction to topographic mapping are just some of the other materials available on CD-Roms in MAGIC.

COPY SERVICES

OTHER LINKS OF INTEREST:

• The makers of the ArcView software used in MAGIC
  "ESRI and the ESRI Logo are licensed trademarks of Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc."
• Weather on the Internet - The Weather Channel, or, our local weather (that's Albuquerque, NM, USA)
• Geographic Names Information System from the USGS
• Earth Data Analysis Center at the University of New Mexico
• New Mexico Resource Geographic Information System at the University of New Mexico
• USGS GeoData downloadable DRG, DLG & DEM files (via FTP) from the USGS
• New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources at New Mexico Tech
• The Index of Watershed Indicators from the EPA
• The ARL Electronic Atlas

Last updated/modified 11/11/02

Comments to Randy Wallace--rw42@unm.edu