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Exercise Jebel Sahara - Joint military exercise between the Royal Gibraltar Regiment and the 2nd Parachute Batalion of the Royal Moroccan armed forces. Held near Marrakech every two years.
© DM Parody 2012
A certified reproduction of the Plan of Wellington Plot. Lots laid out for Philip R. Canniff on part of Lot # 6 in second Concession Thurlow Township. Surveyed by Samuel Benson, P.L.S. and signed July 31, 1851.
This copy was made in 1972 of plan #45, as registered in the Hastings Land Registry Office.
Donated by Walter I. Watson, O.L.S.
Notice anything funny about that map? I swear, the layout editors at SkyMall must come from some special program for those recently released from prison.
Their thought process must have been, "well, left justified text flows better visually, so I'll just flip the image horizontally and no one will know the difference."
Map 5.3. Threshold 4 (maximum temperature flips to > 30°C). Map 5.4. Threshold 5 (maximum temperature in the growing season flips to > 30°C). Map credit: Polly Ericksen et al. 'Mapping hotspots of climate change and food insecurity in the global tropics', CCAFS, 2011 (photo credit: ILRI).
Old map effect created in QGIS 2.0 in the style of a United States Department of the Interior map ca. 1910 (direct predecessors of the United States Geological Survey).
John Nelson's most excellent map of Sparkleberry Swamp. The map is of unknown provenence, and has been passed around for years. It shows the "bones" of the swamp.
The mighty Royal Commission on London Traffic that was set up to report on "the means of locomotion and transport" in the Metropolis and to report on the better organisation, development and inter-connections between the various methods of mechanical transport. The Commission was pertinent given the rapid shift to electric operation of tramways at the time as well as the many, opposing, plans for additional deep level tube lines. Volume 5 contains dozens of plans and maps illustrating the current situation in London, relating to congestion, population, workplaces as well as the contemporary transport network and proposals. The information comes from a variety of sources who were asked to give evidence to the Commission.
This plan of the Paris Metro was referred to by J. H. Lukach of the Traction & Power Securities Company and supplied to the Commission by none other than M. Fulgence Bienvenüe, the man usually referred to as the "Le Père du Métro" (Father of the Metro) and whose titles in the structure of Paris transport is shown in his title. The plan shows the Parisian system, the extensions underway and those proposed. The Commission would have noted that there was a stronger degree of central control as to the planning of the Paris system as against London.
A lot is on this map that is not on the earlier one, Tom Sawer island Rafts, Pirates of The Caribbean, Space Mountain (and much of Tomorrowland), The ferryboat landing (there were no ferries in 1971), and of course the things that scream 1970's like the GAF Camera Center, and several other mentions of Sponsors (including Pepsi Cola, Frito--Lay) The Plaza Swan boats are already listed as "(summer only)" so that is interesting to see two, it is also much larger than the earlier map.
This is a more complete map of the Isle of Emeralds of the nation Allaria in Legends of Brickdom.
Credit to the map goes to my good friend |T|itus.
The Key Map summarises the overall layout of the city, showing the sequence and location of the zone maps.
主地图将整个城市的规划清晰地呈现眼前，并展示区域地图的次序及位置。
Beijing City notebook
北京地图
北京市笔记本
The article in English: kobucha.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/moleskine-beijing-city-n...
中文的文章： www.moleskiner.cn/nikolay-beijing-city-notebook-preview
Saihanba is a vast forest area at the border between Hebei Province and Inner Mongolia in Northern China. Highly recommended for hiking and cycling and for getting away from it all, but quite remote and difficult to reach (you'll need time). I stayed there in summer 2011 and explored the area on my road bike.
There is only one permanent settlement and this consists mainly of shops, restaurants and hotels for the few tourists who come here. This part of the world is sparsely populated by humans. It's easy to travel for 50 km without seeing a village. Some settlements just have numbers instead of names.
The best map of Saihanba that I could find was this big signboard at the only intersection. Print it out if you ever go to visit.
I entered from the remotest part, through the West Gate (西門). The road there is unpaved and just about manageable on a road bike (picture here).
The West Gate as well as the Noth Gate (北門) lead to Inner Mongolia. I was not allowed to pass though the North Gate, probably because horses are bred for the People's Liberation Army on the Mongolian side and military people don't like to have tourists around. I don't know if Chinese citizens are allowed to enter.
The East Gate (東門) is a beautiful mountain pass in deep forest (picture here). The road beyond leads to other interesting landscapes, mainly grassland. From there you can continue further east or north to a secret crossing into Inner Mongolia without grumpy guards holding you back.
Then there is the Main Gate (正門) in the south-east. This is where most people come through. I didn't go there and only rode half way down in that direction. The road is pavé and you need to be tough if you want to do that on road bike tyres. Next time, maybe.
After 2 days I left Saihanba through the South Gate (南門) to Yudaokou and, ultumately, back to civilisation.
Great book cover on Peter Gould and Rodney White's Mental Maps (Pelican 1974) by geographer Gerald Fremlin, then of the Department of Energy, Mines and Resources, Ottawa.
A figure used in a lecture from JR James at the Department of Town and Regional Planning at The University of Sheffield between 1967 and 1978.
I made this Prayer/Wish flag for Angie for an SMA swapbot swap. I got a great map quilt book for Christmas and was inspired. My wish for Angie for 2014 is "Adventure".
Assorted fabrics, ribbon, paint and yarn.
Flame Tree Publishing
FTJP070
card
1,000 pieces
735 x 510 mm
29 x 20 in
From the box base:
Pieter van den Keere (c. 1571-c. 1645) was a Flemish engraver, publisher and globe maker who came to England as a Protestant refugee. Settling in Amsterdam in 1593, he continued to work and began engraving a series of miniature county maps for the British Isles Atlas in 1599. His works also include a map of Ireland, urban panoramas of Utrecht, Cologne, Amsterdam and Paris, as well as a collection of world maps Van den Keere's work here was actually based on a1594 world map by Petrus Plancius (1552-1622). Plancius was a notable figure of the Netherlandish school of cartography and geography in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
After the fiasco of the 2K Jumbo puzzle with missing pieces, this made a pleasant remedy. Edges and top and bottom colourful scenes were completed first, followed by the yellow circular lines. That left the two maps themselves to assemble. Finished yesterday evening.
After completion I did a double-check to make sure we'd not done this one before (they all look the same to me!). Sure enough, we've made this image although not this particular version. In my wooden puzzle stash I have a Nautilus purchased last year through eBay...
Global Pastures in 2000 map the proportion of each 5 minute (10 km) grid cell land area that is under pasture. Dark shaded areas denote higher proportion of are under pasture. Data from Moderate Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) land cover product and Satellite Pour l'Observation de la Terre (SPOT) VEGETATION's Global Land Cover 2000 product were combined with UN Food and Agriculture (FAO) agricultural statistics to generate the data set.