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PEC, working with the Fauquier Trails Coalition, has created maps of the trails in each of the County's Service Districts.
Author: OSS
Scale: not given
LOC call no.: G6081.M5 1944.U5
more information available from Penn State University; Donald W. Hamer Maps Library
Google doesn't know where the main airport in Denver is. Apple finds and highlights it first try.
This is not to say Apple Maps has better all around data than Google. But it does show that even as new as they are, Apple maps leads at times over Google even in Google's strongest area - Search.
Also the Apple Maps look slightly better, though it's hard to tell as the zoom level differs. Google Maps changes the zoom region when you zoom in a little tighter and search.
This search result was obtained on 12/13/2012, the day after Google's iOS mapping app was released (although desktop search has the same issue). I'll update when Google fixes their search results.
Early planning map for BART lines and stations. Note route along Adeline and San Pablo instead of Grove-Shafter Freeway.
Location map for the Pacific Ocean
Image: Public Domain
We have used this photo in this article:
The Largest Oceans In The World
Up until recently there were four official oceans in the World - the Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean and Arctic Ocean - but this changed in 1990, when the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) designated the Antarctic Ocean (also know as the Southern Ocean) as an independent ocean. It encircles Antarctica, below the 60° Southern line of latitude, but before this declaration, many geographers believed that this part of the World Ocean was just the bottom part of the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans combined. Many still believe this to be the case, but the IHO have based their decision on the water of the Antarctic Ocean being very different to the waters of the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans in that general area.
The largest ocean on the planet is the Pacific Ocean, which covers about 28% of the surface of our planet. It's total size is greater than the size of all the World's land mass added together, and it is the source of over half of the sea food which we humans consume. The deepest point under all of the oceans is the Mariana Trench in the north-west Pacific, which drops to a depth of 10,911 metres (35,800 ft), and the planet's oceans cover over 70% of it's surface area in total, an estimated 360,000,000 sq km (140,000,000 sq miles)……..
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:
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
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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Collection of old maps scanned from books and other print sources Download them all at Photoshop Roadmap.
Gender gap
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Pyrrho
Government: Parliamentary Democracy
Last Known Ruler: Prime Minister Dauntelle Illeve
Land Area: (approx.) 309,000 square miles (158,000 sq. misons); Earth comparison: about the size of Oman
Geography and Climate: Pyrrho is a single island with no satellites whatsoever. It rises from some of the deepest waters known on Aquanus, and its land varies from lowland tropical forests to flat grasslands and rolling hills to arid, dry mountains. Temperature averages vary widely from area to area.
Highest Point: Mt. Lucreau 18,999 ft. (2.57 misons)
Eternitudes/Infinitudes (rough) With Respect to the Center of Aquanus: .1.03 to +1.35S; .1.67 to +2.05W
Capital City: Galbereo, est. pre-invasion popuation: 1.05 million
Best Known For: Politics, Galbereo (the largest city on Aquanus), business acumen, ships and shipbuilding, music, culture
Interesting Fact: The only known survivor to have sailed the Bay of Whoops to the Edge and return wasn’t a Zephyr, but a Pyrrhonian.
Routing 30,000 randomly-chosen trips through the paths suggested by 10,000 randomly-chosen geotags. These are perhaps the most interesting routes between the endpoints of the trips, even if not necessarily the most likely.
Data from the Twitter streaming API, August, 2011. Base map from OpenStreetMap, CC-BY-SA.
As of December 2011, these were the projections for Streetcar frequency by fall 2012. They were premised on a $9.4 million operating budget for Streetcar in FY 2013, much of which depended on large budget increases from TriMet and PBOT.
Porto Cupecoy is the most luxurious, culturally-rich residential experience in the Caribbean islands.
The luxury residential resort of Porto Cupecoy enjoys a prime location on the island of Sint Maarten, the Caribbean’s premiere island.
Since Porto Cupecoy is situated on the Dutch side of the island but is just a short distance from the French border, residents can also enjoy the sophistication and natural beauty of the island’s French side.