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one of the projects in the latest Craft magazine. I'm going to use it to hold rolled up papers for map making.
The previous post came through without labels. Here's a lower res screen capture of the map with labels.
MAP Team:
//Trung Nguyen;
//Joseph Young;
//Larisa Medvedkova;
//Sin-Han Lo;
//Mathew Richter;
//Norberto Montenegro;
Sponsor: Amadeus
Location: São Paulo, Brazil
I named this book after the map that I used for the end-papers on this book. Inspired by the cotton-candy colors of the map I cut out some tiny bunnies (not alien heads~) and flowers from Japanese washi paper to decorate the outside. The cover on which the bunnies cavort is made from sturdy cotton bookcloth. The spine is made from a more elegant rayon book cloth and I like the way that the rough cotton and silky rayon meet.
The text block was hand-cut and sewn by me, the edges of the paper were cut to make them smooth. Personally, I find that smooth-edged pages are easier to turn.
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Top pharma sources on the web map : infographics (pharmaceutical and health industry sources on the web)
The Map Room came into use on the very first day that the Cabinet War Rooms were ready for occupation and never ceased to be the hub of the site until VJ Day. On the following day, 16 August 1945, the Map Room lights were finally turned out and the room was left almost exactly as it is today with every map, book, chart, pin and notice occupying the same position now that they occupied then.
The Map Room remained open day and night and the chief task of the officers manning this room was to collate and summarise all relevant information on the progress of the war and present it on maps, which would be constantly updated. ‘The Cabinet War Room Record’ was a daily news sheet that was compiled for transmission every morning to the Prime Minister, the Chiefs of Staff and the War Cabinet. One copy, for the attention of the King, was taken to Buckingham Palace by the Duty Officer every morning.
Four Map Room officers, representing each of the Armed Forces and the Ministry of Home Security, sat either side of the long table in the centre of the room. The Duty Officer was selected from each service in turn and occupied the seat at the head of the table. The series of coloured telephones down the centre of the table were known to the Map Room officers as the ‘beauty chorus’ and had flashing lights as an alternative to bells – they were colour coded and used to communicate with intelligence services, another service war room or the War Rooms own switchboard. The three black phones with green receivers were fitted with scramblers, a device that rendered the conversation meaningless and just a jumble of noise until it was unscrambled at the receiving end.
The large map of the world covering the southern wall of the room hangs where it hung for most of the war. It was used to plot the position of convoys and the movements of individual warships – the thousands of tiny dots which cloud the surface of the map are pinholes left by markers shifted around by the map keepers. During the war this map became so perforated with pin-holes that the outlines of the principal convoy routes could be seen from the other end of the room.
The blackboard which hangs on one of the pillars was used during the Battle of Britain to note the numbers of enemy aircraft destroyed each day.
Access to the Map Room was strictly controlled. The privileged few who were allowed in included visiting heads of Allied countries or armed forces and the King and Queen themselves came to the Map Room in May 1942.
Williamsburg, Virginia
Outside of the welcome center they have a huge map showing all the historic buildings located in Williamsburg.
Il mappamondo di Fra Mauro (1459-60) recentemente restaurato sarà nuovamente visibile nelle Sale Monumentali della Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana di Venezia in occasione della mostra "San Michele in Isola. Isola della conoscenza" dal
12 Maggio al 2 Settembre 2012 nell'ambito della mostra. Il planisfero della Biblioteca Marciana è leggermente ellittico e iscritto in un quadrato con i lati di 2,23 metri; è privo di scala, così come di meridiani e paralleli; il suo orientamento vede il Sud riprodotto nella parte superiore, secondo l’uso islamico e al contrario del tipo tolemaico (Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana di Venezia).
Object Lesson 3 – Unit 2
Nansenbushu Map – Japanese woodblock print from 1710
This is the map that we have looked at extensively in class. Seeing it up close was very different from looking at a digitalized photo in lecture. I was surprised by the amount of detail in the map and it was really interesting that one can see the “artist’s hand” in the map. There were areas of the map that did not match up perfectly, which is where each woodblock ended, there were parts that showed double printing and looks slightly out of focus, and one can also see where the smaller pieces of paper were pasted together to create this one big map. It’s a strikingly beautiful piece of work.
This map is a great example of how travel narratives move from one country to another and manifest into a visual record. There are many places where one can see signs of influence from the writings of either Fa Hian, Xuanzang, or Wu’s Monkey. For example, in many province looking places on the map, the characters would say something like “周七千里” which means the circumference of the location is 7 thousand li in distance. This was information that was listed in the writings of Xuanzang for all the places he traveled through on his journey to and through India. It is very likely that the Japanese mapmaker derived these numbers directly from those records. Also, there were large long areas of dots that people were confused about. Upon examining the characters, I realized that they said something along the lines of “Great Flowing Sand River”, which is really interesting because the character Sandy from “Monkey” supposedly lived at the bottom of a great flowing sand river. There are many salient parallels between these literature and this map.
This map also challenges our traditional notions of what a map is used for. The priority of this map is very religiously focused so accuracy of dimensions and shapes are less important than in maps we are more familiar with. The center of the map is the place of the Buddha, and there are circular patterns drawn around it, which is what my photo shows. Travels to seek the Buddhist scriptures dominate the message of this map, and to that end, I think it was successful in achieving its purpose. A lot of other things in the map are probably just there for decorative purposes. The detailed mountain ranges are probably not extremely accurate, nor are the rivers. It would be interesting to superimpose a modern map of India on top of this map to see where the deviations occur. Furthermore, methods for measuring distances were probably very primitive during that time, so the fact that India is recognizable should already be an impressive feat.
A map from the Worldmapper World Population Atlas: www.worldpopulationatlas.org
(c) Sasi Research Group, University of Sheffield
Postcard of "Nova Tabvla India Orientalis" Map c.1690, from the map collection of The Australian National Library in Canberra. For special swap. 1 postcards available.
Item Number: MAPS-161-sh3
Document Title:London, Westminster, And Southwark As They Appeared in A.D. 1543 Scale Perspective
Project: MAPS __Maps __ __ __ __ __ __ __14 Miscellaneous Projects
Location:Olmsted National Historic Site, Brookline, MA
Category:PLAN
Purpose: TOPO
Physical Characteristics: __0000200290 __23.5 x 62.5 __ __lith pos __ink __paper
Dates: 1543
Notes: From a Drawing by Anty Van Den Wyngrerde, Sutherland Collection, Bodleian Library, Oxford. The Monastery at Bermondsey From a Drawing in the Collection of Mr Upcot. Copied from the originals and engraved by N. Whittock. Key to Buildings and Locations, 1-127.
Artist/Creator: M. Whittlock, Engraver
Please credit: Courtesy of the United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site.
ENGLISH: This Antikythera map is a big wooden panel inside a metal-made display, attached to a wall on one of the few buildings on the island.
PORTUGUÊS: Esse mapa da ilha de Anticitera é um grande painel de madeira dentro de um mostrador de metal, colado numa parede de um dos parcos prédios na ilha.
December 27, 2018 - "The Madaba Map is the oldest extant map of the Holy Land and is dated to the middle of the 6th century AD. It was discovered in the 19th century, during an excavation and reconstruction of a mosaic floor in St George’s Church in Madaba, Jordan. The mosaic map was created according to the Old and New Testaments by Greek monk Salmanos. The map represents biblical sites: Jordan river and mount Nebo in Jordan; Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Jericho – on the Western bank of Jordan River in Palestine and Israel, Delta Nile and Sinai desert in Egypt.
Jerusalem is the biggest city on the map. The map depicts some famous Old City structures such as the Damascus Gate, St. Steven’s Gate, the Golden Gate, the gate leading to Mount Zion, the Citadel (Tower of David), the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and the Cardo Maximus.Jerusalem is the biggest city on the map. The map depicts some famous Old City structures such as the Damascus Gate, St. Steven’s Gate, the Golden Gate, the gate leading to Mount Zion, the Citadel (Tower of David), the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and the Cardo Maximus.
The mosaic Map of Madaba was discovered in 1896 by chance. This discovery drew the city to the attention of scholars worldwide. Nowadays, Saint George’s Church became one of the most visited tourist sites in Jordan. Pilgrims from all around the world come to Madaba to see the original mosaic floor.
Greek - Orthodox St. George's Church is active and used for church services. During the service the mosaic map is covered by carpet." Previous text is from the following website: saintgeorgechurch.blogspot.com/2014/03/mosaic-map-of-mada...
This map is updated with the KTM Komuter extension from Rawang to Kuala Kubu Bharu. Oddly, maps in the city still do not show the extension despite its having opened in 2008.
Old landslide in the Brecon Beacons. Rocks covered in lichens competing for space. Looks just like a map.
Cover of a NZ AA route map from 1940.
Note the two disclaimers:
"DO NOT USE this Itinerary a SECOND TIME; road conditions may have changed and a different route become preferable."
"WARNING - Map Routes are definitely OUT OF DATE 3 months after date of issue."