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Couldn't think of anything else to shoot today, there was a map lying around so I got out a compass and took a few shots. Yeah another cop out shot day, lol.
Chicago Transit Map Showing CTA Streetcar, Bus, "L", and Subway Lines and Connecting Suburban Bus Routes, issued by Chicago Transit Authority
Note the reference to plans for the Congress line: it was to be in the expressway median only as far west as Kedzie, at which point it would turn north in subway to join the Lake Street line.
Early planning map for BART lines and stations. Note route along Adeline and San Pablo instead of Grove-Shafter Freeway.
Map of the Michigan Agricultural College campus from the 1899-1900 student handbook.
Complete copies of the handbooks can be found at onthebanks.msu.edu/Object/162-565-2157/student-handbooks-....
Repository Information:
Michigan State University Archives & Historical Collections, Conrad Hall, 943 Conrad Rd., Room 101, East Lansing, MI 48824, archives.msu.edu
I had trouble finding background information about this strange section of border between India and Bangladesh. As you can partly tell from the lack of relationship between the rivers, the border here does not seem to be based on geographic features. As far as I can tell from the satellite images, the land here is fairly flat and mostly farm land.
Clearly, the border here is the result of some strange decision making. It is hard to know from a glance which side is India and which side is Bangledesh. My original guess was that it was part of the difficult and tumultuous partition of India into Pakistan, India and Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan). But apparently the complexity originates much earlier when the area was under the rule of two different kings. According to Wikipedia, "The enclaves were part of the high stake card or chess games centuries ago between two regional kings, the Raja of Cooch Behar and the Maharaja of Rangpur."
The specific reasons behind the border's strange path is possible to see in the places where the border creates almost a complete loop in it's already erratic course. When I zoom in on these spots, they seem to encircle a single estate or perhaps, a small village. I'd love to know the specifics of how the border-drawing process unfolded. If anyone knows some of the specifics, please let me know.
Source:
Each block has at least ten stores, and most of them look the same!
The color-coding on the map indicates how the stores are groups together by the wares they sell.
yellow = gold
green = carpets
blue = denim
orange = copper
purple = fabric
pink = souvenirs
tan = leather
dark orange = antiques (toward the center)
grey = silver
31. jul. (dag 1): Morgenmad hos Grandpa, kører sammen indtil om eftermiddagen. Vandrerhjem i Åmål. (606 km)
1. aug. (dag 2): Følger E45. Svært ved at finde overnatning. Får en lille hytte kl. 21 (711 km)
2. aug. (dag 3): Følger E45. Flot og øde. Har booket hotel i Arvidsjaur. (388 km)
3. aug. (dag 4): Følger E45. Det bliver mere og mere øde. Bor i Övre Soppero hos nogle meget kristne hotelværter. (406 km)
4. aug. (dag 5): E45 slutter. Kører ind i Finland. Barsk og vild natur. Jordveje. Hotel ved Inari-søen. (419 km)
5. aug. (dag 6): Barsk og flot landskab i Finland. Kirkenes er nået! Kører en tur til Grense Jacobselv ved den russiske grænse. Dejligt hotel i Kirkenes helt ude ved Barentshavet. (311 km)
6. aug. (dag 7): Flot tur langs kysten til Vardø - videre til Hamningberg, hvor vejen slutter ved Ishavet. Overnatter på vandrerhjem i Vestre Jacobselv. (434 km)
7. aug. (dag 8): Superflot og ensom tur langs fjorde og søer og over bjerge i solskin til Alta. (438 km)
8. aug. (dag 9): Følger E6. Helt vildt flot og varieret vej. Drejer fra mod Kiruna. Har booket hotel for to nætter. (653 km)
9. aug. (dag 10): Hviledag i Kiruna. Er på guidet tur ned i minen. Ser byen, bl.a. den flotte trækirke. (0 km)
10. aug. (dag 11): Videre sydpå ad E6. Stadig rigtigt flot - ikke meget traffik. Bor på et värdshus lige ud til en sø i Kobbelv. (366 km)
11. aug. (dag 12): Sydpå ad E6 i solskin. Flot og ikke meget trafik. Bor på hotel i Mosjön. (389 km)
12. aug. (dag 13): Fortsætter ad E6. Omkring Trondheim kommer der meget mere traffik, så jeg drejer fra ad 705. Bor på et gammelt hvidt træhotel ude på landet i Selbu. (411 km)
13. aug. (dag 14): Ad 705 til minebyen Røros. Fremme kl. 12. Har booket hotel. Solskin. Er på guidet byvandring og får set hele byen og et spændende minemuseum. (164 km)
14. aug. (dag 15): Ad små, flotte veje langs søer og bjerge til byen Rena. Får rabat på Best Western, fordi jeg er motorcyklist. (241 km)
15. aug. (dag 16): Jeg er på vej hjem. Kører ad mindre veje og beslutter at stoppe i Uddevalla i Sverige. (395 km)
16. aug. (dag 17): Tager motorvejen, E6, i solskin til Helsingborg. Færge til Helsingør og hjem langs Strandvejen. (350 km)
Printable tourist attractions map of Savannah.
Created by Tripomatic
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World Map. William Janszoon Blaeu, Le Grand Atllas, ou Cosmographia Blaviana, Vol 1 (1664).
Hofbibliothek, located in the current Prunksaal building, is the Austrian National Library (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek or ÖNB).
It contains 7.4 million items in its collections, the largest library in Austria. It is located in the Hofburg Palace in Vienna.
Well they're actually across our conservatory floor and its with relief that I came to the end of several days of detailed route planning (with my partner; Gary doing likewise down in Doncaster). We have been lucky in The Great Outdoors annual challenge walk across Scotland, insofar as that as its always oversubscribed we have secured a team place through the deciding lottery, yippee! So next May we will be setting off from Shiel Bridge, through the mountains of Glen Affric and on to Fort Augustus through Glen Tarf to take General Wades Military Road the Corrieyarack Pass, on to Glen Feshie, beating up to Braemar, landing at Lochallatar Lodge, getting a taste of Tarfside and on to marvellous Montrose to complete a self-supporting hike of approximately 175 miles of great wilderness and mountain trekking through the most beautiful landscape in all of these sceptred isles!
Mapwonks might be interested to know that they are OS Landranger Series No's 25 Glen Carron, 33 Loch Alsh & Glen Shiel, 35 Kingussie, 34 Fort Augustus, 42 Glen Garry, 43 Braemar, 44 Ballater, 45 Stonehaven & Banchory and finally 54 Dundee & Montrose.
All we want is decent weather and all we need is a decent bit of puff.. We are quite delighted that our proposed route was passed by the assessors first off with no amendments required, well chuffed but its anticipated our heads will be back down to normal by the time we hit the trail. Weel done Gary boy.. Here's tae us.
This map is in the public domain and I downloaded if from Wikipedia. There are notes on this map.
Best seen LARGE (click on link).
If you choose original above you can see a great deal of detail but you will have to scroll to see it all. Flickr will not let me insert that link for some reason.
See at Wikipedia
Description: Map of Europe. Tactile map of Europe with notation in Braille. Braille text reads: Fleuves et villes principales, which translates to Rivers and principles cities.
Note: From L'Institution Nationale des Jeunes Aveugles, Paris, July 1909. Politique Elementaire. Price $0.10.
Creator: unknown, France
Date: 1908
Format: map
Digital Identifier: MAPS-00139
Rights: Samuel P. Hayes Research Library, Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown, MA
Sebastian Munster - Tabula novarum insularum, Quas Diversis Respectibus Occidentales & Indianas uocant.
"A cartographic milestone by Sebastian Munster that is noted for a number of firsts:
* It is earliest collectible map which shows the recently discovered Western Hemisphere.
* The map names the Pacific Ocean, Mare pacificum.
* The large island of Zipangri, here seen just off the coast of California, is one of the earliest attempts to depict Japan on a map.
* This map clearly depicts the New World as a distinct insular landmass and clearly shows the continuity between North and South America.
* This map's inclusion in Munster's Cosmography, first published in 1544, (a widely read book along with the Geography from 1540) helped to seal the fate of America as the name for the New World.
The flags of Spain and Portugal fly over their respective possessions in the Caribbean and South Atlantic. The large galleon sailing west in the Pacific is a representation of Magellan's ship Victoria, the first to circumnavigate the world. The flags of Spain and Portugal fly over their respective possessions in the Caribbean and South Atlantic. North America is almost separated by an inland sea reflecting Verazanno's voyage of 1524 in which he incorrectly assumed that Pimlico Sound, across the Outer Banks, was actually the Pacific Ocean. This depiction of the supposed Verazzano Sea extending through North America to within a short distance of the Atlantic helped to perpetuate the belief that a route could easily be found across the new continent to the rich Spice Islands of the east. This misconception helped to stimulate further exploration of the region. Munster's imaginative drawing of "canbali" in the area of present day Brazil shows the European fascination with reports of cannibalism. Besides Zipangri are the "Archipelagus 7448 insularum", the 7,448 island off the coast of Asia that Marco Polo refers to in his book and the same islands that Christopher Columbus thought he had reached in 1492.
Munster's map was widely considered to be the standard map of the Americas until the publication of Ortelius' Americas map in 1570."
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1500 pieces this time: an F. X. Schmid, West Germany (so presumably prior to 1990), antique world map. Took about three days to complete, and all the pieces were there.
Printable tourist attractions map of Minneapolis.
Created by Tripomatic
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Gender gap
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Way back in 2012 yateleyart and Mrs yateleyart spent a few days in Korcula on the the Croatian island of the same name.
yateleyart likes doodling maps and on this occasion he doodled a map of the island in the visitors' book in the house where they stayed.
That was 2012. yateleyart and Mrs yateleyart forgot all about it . . . .
The map shows new text-formatting features (word-wrapping, text alignment & offsetting) that will be available in the next release of Maperitive.
Plan showing buildings in Station, Lingham, Bleecker, Lime, Bettes, Starling and Brassey Streets and Railway Terrace in Belleville, Ontario.
Produced by Charles E. Goad.
Xinjiang map, 2078x1370, Xinjiang road map, with distances, Chinese with some English.
To see this map full size, click on the "All Sizes" button above the image.
This map originally came from vbgood maps, and I adapted it to include the Tarim Highway, and the English placenames.
See another Xinjiang map, in Chinese with more English, with distances in kilometers, at Xinjiang Map, with Roads, Chinese, some English, distances in kilometers, 1535x1273, China
For extensive information about visiting towns along southern Xinjiang -- including transportation, lodging, dining and sightseeing -- see Central Asia Traveler.
The covered towns at this site include Hotan, Keriya / Yutian, Niya / Minfeng, Cherchen / Qiemo, and Charklik / Ruoqiang.
See a map of neighboring Qinghai Province to the southeast of Xinjiang.
A large format (2196 x 1547) map of Xinjiang in English is available at Xinjiang Map at Maps of China. Keep in mind three caveats about this English map.
-- First, to download the map, which is actually in six file segments, one must right-click on each of the segments and then use a graphics program to paste them together.
-- Second, the map erroneously shows the Tarim Highway reaching Highway 315 at Andirlingar, rather than near Niya / Minfeng, an error of 110 km to the east, and does not show the spur road going southeast from Tazhong along the Tarim Highway to near Cherchen / Qiemo.
-- Third, the map does not show distances.
It is otherwise a good map.
Shown in black across the center of the vast Taklamakan Desert is the Tarim Highway, completed in 1996, mainly to access the vast Tazhong oil reserves in the center of the vast Taklamakan Desert but also to open southern Xinjiang to economic development. The Tarim Highway is 562 km from Highway 314 at Bugur / Luntai in the north to Highway 315 near Niya / MInfeng in the south.
Starting 1 October 2007, a new cross-desert highway opened ~480 km from Hotan to Aksu, shortening the distance 43% between Hotan and Aksu from the 767 km via the Yarkand / Shache and Maralbishi / Bachu route. The overall route from Hotan to Korla and Urumqi will be only about 30 km shorter along the new highway compared with the Tarim Highway.
Here is a latex map i have done as this part of the world in the real world is the most latexy anywhere :) and is the part of the world im from :)
am sure many other latex lovers would love to live in a latex world to, as it's me dream :)
More latex land links below.
Maps of racial and ethnic divisions in US cities, inspired by Bill Rankin's map of Chicago, updated for Census 2010.
Red is White, Blue is Black, Green is Asian, Orange is Hispanic, Yellow is Other, and each dot is 25 residents.
Data from Census 2010. Base map © OpenStreetMap, CC-BY-SA
I found this vintage map at Pick and Pay, the storage unit resale store in New Waverly, Texas. The folded map is 11 by 5 inches, and when it's unfolded, it's HUGE!
There are samples of each major clan's tartan's, plus a map of Scotland, along with other historical tidbits.
I need to photograph the entire map--even with creases and corner holes it would be a wonderful framed map.
I realized that all the Gold Hill area shots ought to be accompanied with a topo map created in 1903-4 to show all the relationships to Boulder and Lefthand Canyon. Note that were other camps that still remained at the time; these were Sprindale, Gledale and Rowena. They are marked with updated residences. I think that there may have been a spring bath house at Springdale, if memory serves. Gresham shows in the upper left. Mines dotted all the surrounding area. I think that if you blow it up you will find greatly interesting discoveries.
According to Wikipedia: Gold Hill is a census-designated place (CDP) in Boulder County, Colorado, United States. The population was 230 at the 2010 census.[2] This settlement is located to the northwest of Boulder, perched on a mountainside above Left Hand Canyon at an elevation of 8,300 feet. Originally a mining camp, it was the site of the first major discovery of gold during the 1859 Colorado Gold Rush and remained an important mining camp throughout the late 19th century, with a population approaching 1500 at its height, before falling into decline. It has been revived somewhat in recent years as a quiet isolated haven, with no paved streets, but easily accessed by dirt roads. The town contains numerous historic wooden structures, some restored in recent years, as well decaying ruins from its mining heyday. It has a small museum and two-room schoolhouse, the Gold Hill School, which since 1873 has been the oldest continuously operating public school in Colorado. Other businesses include a General Store and a restored inn listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The town is laid out on a small grid of dirt streets.
Gold Hill is accessible from nearby Left Hand Canyon Road via Lick Skillet Road, the steepest county road in the United States. Easier approaches to Gold Hill include Sunshine Canyon Road from 4th and Mapleton in Boulder, Gold Run Road from Salina (on Four Mile Canyon Road), and Gold Hill Road from the Peak-to-Peak Highway (State Highway 72) south of Ward. All of these roads are susceptible to heavy snows during the winter, which at times render Gold Hill inaccessible to vehicles not equipped with chains or four wheel drive.
Gold Hill is sometimes labeled a ghost town, which is an inaccurate designation. Gold Hill is part of unincorporated Boulder County, and while it does not have a municipal government, it does have an active town meeting with elected officials.
Jamestown has lasted for decades through the original gold boom, the second gold boom, the silver boom and its 1893 demonetization and finally the return to reliance on gold mining and processing. It finally outlasted the tungsten boom. Originally, they thought the only source of that mineral was only found here and I expect that production made the early WWI war industries pay to harden their steel gun barrels. I expect that the price they charged was enough to make prospectors to search anywhere else! The two largest mills were the Wano Mill on the hill to the west of town and the mill just below Jamestown below the Golden Age mine way up on the hill north of Jamestown. Oldtimers referred to the town as "Jimtown." It's history of transportation was a bit tortured. Originally, there was a road over from Lyons over the hills and down into the canyon. A branch from this road actually ventured west past Balarat and eventually Gresham. The steep sides of the canyon originally meant the road up from the Boulder to Lyons road had to ascent the canyon. Old "JimTown" still lives in this log cabin of extended life. Two narrow gauge routes were surveyed and graded to the mouth of the canyon but never built. One clung to the foothills from Boulder, the Boulder, Left Hand & Middle Park, and another from Longmont, the Longmont, Middle Park & Pacific. The Longmont route clearly had bigger dreams. Both grades can be found on the landscape.
Maps of racial and ethnic divisions in US cities, inspired by Bill Rankin's map of Chicago, updated for Census 2010.
Red is White, Blue is Black, Green is Asian, Orange is Hispanic, Yellow is Other, and each dot is 25 residents.
Data from Census 2010. Base map © OpenStreetMap, CC-BY-SA
Title: Map of Victoria, comprising portion of New South Wales
Author / Creator: Victoria. Department of Crown Lands and Survey.
Contributor(s): Tulloch & Brown.
Publisher: Melbourne : Sands & Kenny,
Date: 1859.
Click on image to enlarge. Note Oakleigh is the only settlement mapped in what is now Monash City. Scotchmans Creek and Dandenong Creek are also present.
Notes: "Engraved by Tulloch & Brown"
Includes statistical information from the Census taken in March 29th, 1857.
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights.
Copyright status: This work is out of copyright
Conditions of use: No copyright restrictions apply
Subjects:
Victoria Maps.
Source: SLV
Link to online item
handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/119458
Link to this record
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