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Description: Map of Australia with raised lines, braille, textures, and no print text. Identifies political boundaries, and topographical features.
Note: Map with tactile elements for use by the blind.
Creator: unknown
Date: undated
Format: map
Digital Identifier: MAPS-00057
Rights: Samuel P. Hayes Research Library, Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown, MA
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.
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Italy is only a half-hour from where we're staying. I wanted to stop for lunch on our way to Slovenia, but we ran out of time. It's just crazy how close everything is in Europe.
color version of line map image earlier in my photostream. BTY: this image is 4K by 4K, try it large.
All line slopes are rational numbers, say a/b. The color of a line is related to its slope, in fact it depends solely on the prime factorization of N = a^2 + b^2. If N has a lot of small prime factors like 2, 3, 5, or 7, it is reddish or orangish. If it has medium size prime factors like 11 to 23 it starts getting more yellowish or greenish. Huge prime factors add a blue or purple hue. If the factorization contains primes of various sizes then the line is is mixture of the colors assigned to individual primes.
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
Author: OSS
Scale: not given
LOC call no.: G6081.M5 1944.U5
more information available from Penn State University; Donald W. Hamer Maps Library
PEC, working with the Fauquier Trails Coalition, has created maps of the trails in each of the County's Service Districts.
This was published by the Department of Community Development. Full map in map index. Found in Vertical File 625, Seattle Municipal Archives.
A section of the Ordnance Survey map, showing Redbrae farm at the top, where I was parked, Barallan Hill, over which I had to walk to avoid the cattle, and Mains of Torhouse. The ruins that caught my eye from the top of Barallan Hill are indicated with the red arrow.
Early planning map for BART lines and stations. Note route along Adeline and San Pablo instead of Grove-Shafter Freeway.
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."
Info from mapmogul.com/catalog/product_info.php+manufacturers_id+15...
Gender gap
25 maps that show how Sweden is unique: Read more here www.kullin.net/2014/01/25-maps-that-show-how-sweden-is-un...
Our new home. Sharpied and crayonned by yours truly, and yours truly can't draw at all (the toilet looks weird and the bed should be larger, but you get the gist).
Signing the lease today.
Which, incidentally, is the anniversary of our engagement.
The map shows new text-formatting features (word-wrapping, text alignment & offsetting) that will be available in the next release of Maperitive.
Display of the map at the Seabee Museum. Directly in front of the map is a model of a Landing Ship, Tank, referred to as the LST. These ships served as the critical means for transporting the construction supplies and equipment required by WWII Seabees.
Sheet 21 covers Film, MacLellan and Dufferin Avenues, Coulter, Bowen and Uttley Crescent, Wragg and McGill Streets and the Downs Coulter Company cloth factory, the Crosse and Blackwell pickling plant and the Canadian Doughnut Company powder manufacturing plant.
Map loaned for scanning by Quinte West Public Library in December 2021.
I love reading maps, and squeeed out loud when I saw this. :D Fangirling for the win! I was looking up 'Winchester', and then saw 'Dean' right above it. Heeeeeeee.
Explore the unique and beautiful regions of Texas through nine interactive driving maps online or order the beautifully illustrated print maps
Added additional trails onto the map that where missing on the earlier map. Adobe PDF: andyarthur.org/img/full/maps.kaaterskll/kaaterskil1.pdf