Regents' Professor EMERITUS John R. Borchert
"In a period of intellectual flux, when geography seems tempted to follow nongeographical sirens of transient glamour, John Borchert always manages to anchor the discipline's sense of identity on the rock of cartographic information." Yi-Fu Tuan
Regents’ Professor John R. Borchert was a University of Minnesota geography faculty member from 1949 to 1989. He died March 30, 2001 after an extraordinary life of scientific study, teaching and travel dedicated to the understanding and advancement of our community and world. We remember him with admiration and respect as a great scholar. More...
Featured Minnesota Collections
Aerial Photography and Remote Sensed Imagery
Online index of the Borchert Map Library's aerial photography holdings
Minnesota County Plat Maps and Atlases
Online index to the Borchert Map Library's Minnesota county plat map and atlas
holdings
Selected Historic Minnesota Collections
Online index to selected historic Minnesota collections in the Borchert Map Library
Other Online Cartographic Resources
Online and Interactive Maps
Links to nationally and locally produced online and interactive maps
GIS Data
Links to online resources for nationally and locally produced GIS
data
Other Aerial Photography and Remote Sensed Imagery Online
Links to online resources for nationally and locally
produced aerial photography and remote sensed imagery
Gazetteers and Placename Guides
Identify and verify placenames, coordinates and locations
Map History / History of Cartography
Information and links to other resources related to the history of cartography
Tools and Definitions
Links to resources and tools for interpreting
maps and measuring the Earth's surface