The UW-Madison Cartography Lab received a national award for a website displaying the history of the Lakeshore Nature Preserve.
The student-driven interactive website won ""Best Interactive Digital Map"" at the 2006 American Congress for Survey and Mapping's Cartography and Geographical Information Systems Map Design Competition.
""The success of the Lakeshore Nature Preserve map is a testament to the many long hours and inspired work of the student cartographers and historians who created this map,"" Mark Harrower, UW-Madison geography professor and one of the project's supervisors, said in a statement.
According to a press release, the website uses more than 325 web pages and more than 2,400 photographs, video clips and maps to chart the history of the Lakeshore Preserve.
""The map, largely built by UW students, won in the ‘professional' category,"" Harrower said. ""This [award] shows that UW-Madison is really exploring what the digital revolution means to mapping.""
