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Early planning map for BART lines and stations. Note route along Adeline and San Pablo instead of Grove-Shafter Freeway.
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."
Info from mapmogul.com/catalog/product_info.php+manufacturers_id+15...
Ushahidi platform for the 2011 Japan earthquake in March 11th. The red dots show the number of logged messages, informations and requests. THe open source mapping intends to help by enabling to log info directly from the grond.
Locations of all community gardens in north and central Brooklyn. Community gardens are light green, Parks are dark green; cemeteries are greenish-yellow.
Compare with Brooklyn Community Gardens.
Source: OASIS Mapping Service
Author: OSS
Scale: not given
LOC call no.: G6081.M5 1944.U5
more information available from Penn State University; Donald W. Hamer Maps Library
The estimated mean annual river discharge into the Mediterranean for recent years is about 10.000 m3/s, with a dry season in midsummer and a peak flow in early spring (Struglia et al. 2004). Ranked according to annual discharge, the ten largest rivers contributing to the Mediterranean Sea are the Rhone, Po, Drin-Bojana, Nile, Neretva, Ebro, Tiber, Adige, Seyhan, and Ceyhan. These rivers account for half of the mean annual discharge, with the Rhone and the Po alone accounting for already one-third of it (Ludwig et al. 2009). Of the three continents that discharge into the Mediterranean Sea, Europe dominates, with a climatological mean annual discharge that accounts for half of the total. The European discharge clearly determines the seasonal cycle for the Mediterranean. Discharge from Asia and Africa is considerably smaller. Discharge into the Adriatic Sea, the Northwestern Basin, and the Aegean Sea, combined, accounts for 76% of the whole. About one-third of the total basin discharge flows into the Adriatic (3.700 m3/s) (data from Ludwig et al. 2009). The Nile, with a catchment area an order of magnitude greater than any other Mediterranean river, has a mean annual discharge of 2.800 m3/s to the Aswan Dam. The discharge is reduced to about 5% of that amount (150 m3/s) by the time it reaches the Mediterranean Sea.
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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...
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.
Planned Metro rail service for Columbus Day weekend 2010 (Oct 8-11).
There will be no Orange or Blue Line service at Metro Center, McPherson Square, or Farragut West.
Shuttle buses will be provided.
Map of the dollar value of U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Foods purchased in FY 2014; icons represent the states that are the largest sources of a particular type of USDA Foods.
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.
PEC, working with the Fauquier Trails Coalition, has created maps of the trails in each of the County's Service Districts.
Map giving a rough indication of the Essex coast as it may have been around 6,000 BC from www.finestprospect.org.uk/Palaeo-Meso/Palaeo-meso.htm.
Heart = Registration Table
Star = Elevators
Saturday Locations:
Room 120A = Designers/Entrepreneurs
Room 120B = Beginning Developers
Adventurer Alastair Humphreys and photographer Chris Herwig made an unsupported crossing of Iceland. They carried all of their food, camping gear, and equipment for both glacier crossing and packrafting in 40kg packs.
Hiking inland from the coast to the bleak interior highlands, Alastair and Chris crossed a glacier to reach the headwaters of Iceland's longest river. There they inflated packrafts and began paddling their way down to the opposite coast.
For more information, writing and videos from this expedition please visit www.alastairhumphreys.com
For information about the commercial use of any of the Iceland images please contact Chris at www.herwigphoto.com
All photos in this set were taken by Alastair or Chris (http://www.flickr.com/photos/herwigphoto) (and most of the good ones are by Chris!)
DO NOT ADJUST YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN!
Unlike yesterday's map from 1807, Pigot reverts back to North at the bottom, south at the top. Comparison with the 1650 and 1750 maps, which are drawn with the same orientation, shows the extent of the city's growth.
Strangeways, a relatively underdeveloped area containing an old workhouse, can be seen at the bottom of the map between the rivers Irk and Irwell. At the top of the map can be seen the open fields of Petersfield.
In 1805 the Lee and Phillips Factory in Salford became the first to be lit by gas. In 1806 the Portico Library opened. In the same year the Mersey-Irwell Naviagtion enabled the first packet boat to travel from the New Bailey Bridge to Rucorn. This canal would later become part of the Manchester Ship Canal. In 1808 the Manchester and Salford Waterworks Company was established, to provide much-needed water supplies for the mills and the newly-arrived immigrant workers.
The wonderful engraving complete with mill, scroll and packaged goods can be understood as representing life in the city in the early 1800s in this context of industry, learning and commerce.
Click on the magnifying glass to zoom in to the large size of the map.
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.