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Not to be confused with the North American Great Lakes.
Unlike the North American Great Lakes, which experience twice yearly turnovers in the Spring and Fall, the deep layers of these lakes can build up dangerous large volumes of dissolved gases.
Lake Kivu, in particular, is at risk of a Limnic Eruption.
An old Port Authority (Pittsburgh) Light Rail map, showing the old designations (number number letter) and the 52-Allentown (Brown Line) which no longer operates.
Part of Kroll Atlas from the mid 1900s (don't know exact year) showing a typo of Bandana for Bandera. Other interesting things about this map:
1) Mason Lake was called Short Lake
2) Camp Maxon on the Sunset Highway
3) Ranger station at the Pratt Lake/Granite Mtn trailhead
4) Denny Lake was called Lake Evelyn
5) There was a small State Park where I-90 exit 45 is now
Kryukov & Co - Illustrirovannyi Plan Moskovi i yeye Okrestnostmy (1910)
A highly decorative and large-scale plan of Moscow, depicting the city not long before the Revolution of 1917.
This magnificent map depicts all of Moscow and its environs as it appeared in 1910, during the twilight of the Czarist period. In large scale, the city unfolds with all of its 41 wards and the various parks distinguished by color, following the concentric pattern that was the hallmark of the city’s development. The major edifices of the city: palaces, churches, government buildings, theaters and museums are expressed pictorially, while all major roads and landmarks are labeled. The elaborate network of railways connecting Moscow to the rest of the Russian Empire weave out of the city, including the western terminus of the Trans-Siberian Railroad. A detailed inset features a plan of the Kremlin. With its period Art Nouveau border, the map assumes an artistically virtuous appearance.
At the time that this map was issued, Moscow’s economy was growing rapidly, and its population was around 1.5 million, having doubled in the previous 20 years. One of the most interesting features of the map is its demarcation of the city’s tramline system. In 1872, the Compagnie générale des tramways de Moscou et de Russie, had introduced horse-drawn trams to the city. The network rapidly expanded, and from 1899 electric trams were progressively replacing the equestrian lines. The map distinguishes the various horse and electric systems.
Also prominent is the ring road (colored in bold red) that encircles the outskirts of the city. By this time the road, known as the ‘Third Ring’, had been proposed and construction had commenced, although the Revolution would place the project on hold. It was fitfully continued throughout the 20th Century, but was not fully completed until 2004.
This large map is exceptional in that it was intended to be both a fine work of art and a practical aid for navigating Moscow. It provides an unparalleled insight into the nature of Moscow shortly before Soviet planners redeveloped the city. While many key features still survive, the map is a primary artifact of an exciting and prosperous, yet bygone era.
The present map is very rare, we have never before encountered an example and have only been able to locate a single example in Russian state collections. The map would appear to have first been issued in 1907, as the date 1907 can be seen in the darker red area at the bottom right of the map. The rarity of the map may be accounted for by the fact that examples would have been hung up on the wall and subject to use and wear.
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This video shows the rise and fall of civilisations, city states and nations between 2000BC and the present day, covering Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.
Rendering was done in QGIS using 'save as image'. Each one of 20 or so layers was saved as a different image (frame_0001.png, frame_0002.png, etc). Projection is European Albers Equal Area Conic.
To keep colours consistent between frames, I used a python function in QGIS to create a unique consistent colour for each country name, based on the first 3 bytes of the MD5 hash (so for example "Norway" always hashes to color '#D5B929FF' )
The video was created using a two line bash script, using convert (imagemagick) and ffmpeg. The convert does the colour interpolation, and ffmpeg stitches those frames into an mp4 video.
convert frame_*.png -delay 10 -morph 30 %05d.morph.png
ffmpeg -i %05d.morph.png -r 12 -qscale 2 output.mp4
Data was from this github repo.
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Whitechapel/Spitalfields
I've noted the location of the following more precisely on knautia's (fantastic) 1890's map:
represent I couldn't tell if this was ironic retro graffiti, or if it was real Man U and Hammersmith stuff. In any case: it looks retro.
verde & co Not surprisingly they don't just sell oranges. I had no idea who ran this shop until I looked it up on the web just now. Gilbert and George used to help run a cafe on Fournier Street nearby, so artist run buisnesses are a tradition in the neighborhood.
chirstchurch, spitalfields. A Hawksmoor Church. Situated on pentangles and lay lines, I'll be bound.
S. Schwartz Fournier Street. Paste up by Swoon, early 18th century houses, 19th/ early 20th century business.
monster? Remember -- not Frankenstein, Frankenstein's monster (gratuitous link to my own writing).
In the new square at Trondheim, this map of the river Nidelven has been made. Really nicely done.
Digitized with Negative Lab Pro v2.1.0
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This map shows a heatmap of 175,000 4.5+ magnitude earthquakes since 1973 based on data from the USGS (United States Geological Survey). And worldwide locations of nuclear power stations using information from the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency).
In the early 1980s, there was some talk among environmentalists about using waste heat from Intalco Aluminum (now Alcoa) for heat. Possibly piping it to Bellingham from the Intalco plant near Ferndale, WA. I was intrigued by the idea so I drew a map for what I thought would be an efficient route to go past many of the major buildings in Bellingham with the least amount of pipe laying required.
It appears that this map is from 1977. I couldn't find a typical print year on it, just a code that said 1/77, which is likely the print date. This map does show all the Amoco gas stations in Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia at the time. The locations were few and far between though.
This map also had some interesting ads in it too some chains were represented by a certain number on the map. Others, such as Albert Pick Hotels, Holiday Inn, and Coachmen Recreational Vehicles were represented by their logo.
Here are some more maps and map images that I figured I would share to go along with the ones I posted before. I figured I would do these as a mass upload then go back to the more typical retail pictures I post.
The full road maps were way too large to fit into the scanner and I didn't want to risk damaging the maps so I mostly copied covers, advertisements, and certain city maps. I do want to figure out a decent way to photograph the full maps without harming them. All of these ones are larger than the Ohio Turnpike Map I posted before.
More sketches from Paraty. I'm never oriented until I draw a map. Sketched from a variety of sources, none of which seemed to show all the things I wanted to see.
A Map Showing the Places in Wicklow Visited by some Travel Writers in 18th and 19th Century & the Routes Taken
While there are many records of the Western countries, historical maps of the Middle East are very scarce. Thus, it is really difficult to recreate the historical geography of Turkey, Lebanon, the Kurdish regions, Armenia or Iraq, all the more as the populations were speaking various languages. The replacement of the Ottoman script with a Latin alphabet in 1928, the specific Armenian and Georgian alphabets, the various transcriptions of Arabic words and the numerous transliterations of some names (e.g. from Kurdish to Arabic, then to Ottoman Turkish and finally to modern Turkish) makes it quite impossible to locate some places.
Here is a map of the Ottoman Empire realized by Louis Vivien de Saint-Martin and Adolphe Noël des Vergers and published in Paris by Charles Picquet in 1845. Names and borders are legible. Therefore it will be possible to spot the ancient places with their modern equivalents, to search for the small 19th century Kurdish or Armenian autonomies or to examine the border between the Pashalik of Baghdad and Iran.
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