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Everyone told her the world was her oyster.

Digitalmania challenge - use maps in the background

This map includes the major counties, explorer routes, roads and a description of topography of the south western corner of Western Australia. It was produced in 1851 by the British cartographic publisher John Tallis and Company, renowned for their decorative illustrated maps.

 

Western Australia, Swan River, 1851, B/1/5 State Library of Western Australia, catalogue.slwa.wa.gov.au/record=b1840530~S2#.U7zovfmSyGc

 

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Everyone gets lost in downtown Boston. These girls on the Common are going over their tourist maps.

Mirrored from a good site, forgot the name. --- talon

A map block for Anne, based on the image on the cover of Mapping the Mind by Rita Carter.

Captura de pantalla del Google Maps Navigation

AirTran route map in February/March 1998.

Map treefrog (Hypsiboas geographicus) from Iwokrama, Guyana.

Map tree frog (Hypsiboas geographicus) from Iwokrama, Guyana.

This 1825 map of Seoul is painted on tiles lining the Cheonggyecheon Stream. See the accompanying placque in this photoset for the description.

Mi wallpaper actual, aunque no acaba de convencerme...

"Oh the places we can go !"

For Our Daily Challenge topic - 'Adventure.'

Only one E in my alphabet blocks.

Printed on vintage maps from the United Kingdom in an edition of 220. Each print is different and unique.

 

Available for purchase at Keep Calm Gallery!

 

Title: Dublin Street Directory Map - A new plan of Dublin

Year: 1767

Scale: A scale of British feet 3cm to 1000 feet

Size: 34cm x 23cm

Location / recall no.: Cabinet 7, drawer 11

Notes: Published by Peter Wilson in Dame Street

 

Dublin City Library and Archive houses a collection of maps of ancient and modern Dublin from the 17th century to the present day. From Speed's map of 1610 to Rocque's map of 1756, through to the Dublin City Development plans of today this collection traces the growth of the capital city. Maps of Ireland and the counties are also held.

 

SEE Maps, Files and Ephemera.

Antique Maps of the World

The Americas

Jodocus Hondius

c 1619

Mint

I got this card during our honeymoon.

Doing some research tonight for my upcoming trip to Iceland

data © OpenStreetMap Contributors

This image forms part of the digitised photographs of the Ross and Pat Craig Collection. Ross Craig (1926-2012) was a local historian born in Stockton and dedicated much of his life promoting and conserving the history of Stockton, NSW. He possessed a wealth of knowledge about the suburb and was a founding member of the Stockton Historical Society and co-editor of its magazine. Pat Craig supported her husbandâs passion for history, and together they made a great contribution to the Stockton and Newcastle communities. We thank the Craig Family and Stockton Historical Society who have kindly given Cultural Collections at the University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia, access to the collection and allowed us to publish the images. Thanks also to Vera Deacon for her liaison in attaining this important collection.

 

Please contact Cultural Collections at the University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia, if you are the subject of the image, or know the subject of the image, and have cultural or other reservations about the image being displayed on this website and would like to discuss this with us.

 

Some of the images were scanned from original photographs in the collection held at Cultural Collections, other images were already digitised with no provenance recorded.

 

You are welcome to freely use the images for study and personal research purposes. Please acknowledge as âCourtesy of the Ross and Pat Craig Collection, University of Newcastle (Australia)" For commercial requests please consider making a donation to the Vera Deacon Regional History Fund.

 

These images are provided free of charge to the global community thanks to the generosity of the Vera Deacon Regional History Fund. If you wish to donate to the Vera Deacon Fund please download a form here: uoncc.wordpress.com/vera-deacon-fund/

 

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The map view shows current location (the familiar "blue dot"). You can pinch-to-zoom and drag-to-move as normal.

 

Tap the crosshair to make the map automatically follow your location.

 

Tap the zoom button to automatically resize the map to keep the whole route visible.

 

Tap the globe icon to choose normal, satellite, or hybrid view.

 

Tap map pins to see detailed information and perform a reverse-geocode (to lookup the address of the location coordinate).

Mirrored from a good site, forgot the name. --- talon

Antique Maps of the World

Map of Europe

Matthaus Merian

c 1641

Antique Maps of the World

The Americas

Abraham Ortelius

c 1579

With this tool, cartographers could measure linear distances on maps by running the tiny wheel along the line between two points. Then they calculated the actual ground distance using the dial reading and the map’s scale.

 

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