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Past
Today’s Washington Post features an fascinating article about Martin Waldseemueller, “a map-making cleric whose own story is sufficiently obscure that his birth and death dates aren’t known for certain.” His world map from 1507, which is in near-perfect condition and with no other known copies, is the oldest document that labels “America” as the land mass between Africa and Asia. It went on permanent display last year as possibly the most valuable of the 5 million maps owned by the Library of Congress.

Present
Aviation Week’s International Editor Robert Wall blogged last week on Sidelobe that the Pentagon has given industry a few more days to respond to a request for information on the provision of space-based synthetic aperture radar imagery. “With the Pentagon’s efforts to field a space-based SAR system in turmoil,” Wall writes, “going commercial seems a quicker solution. The resolution may not be what the intelligence community wants, but for the military’s day-to-day collection needs it may just be the thing. NGA already buys electro-optical imagery from commercial vendors.”

Tags: Library of Congress, Maps, NGA, Pentagon, SAR