Cultural Map Receives Achievement Award

The Cultural Map of Wisconsin, an intricate map of the state’s cultural resources produced by a collaboration of UW–Madison geographers and cartographers, has been cited for excellence by the American Congress of Surveying and Mapping.

Click on the thumbnail sample map for Vernon County to see a full-sized image -- 240K

The map, published by the University of Wisconsin Press and released last year, received the Outstanding Achievement Award in the Congress’ annual map design competition. The award will be presented in Seattle this month.

The Cultural Map of Wisconsin was produced by geography professors David Woodward and Robert Ostergren, Cartographic Lab Director Onno Brouwer, Steven Hoelscher and the late Joshua Hane. The map, the only one of its kind, denotes 1,200 sites in Wisconsin, including lighthouses, parks, hiking trails, colleges, abandoned settlements, ethnic centers, museums and rustic roads.

Copies of the map, rolled or folded, can be obtained for $9.95 plus shipping from the University of Wisconsin Press, 114 Murray St., Madison, WI 53715, or by calling (800) 829-9559.