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Google has a neat little application for viewing their maps on your Windows Media enabled mobile phone.
The quality of this photo is a little lacking, and my screen is somewhat better than it appears in this picture, but I'm pleased to say that much of the functionality of the web version of Google Maps is available in the mobile version.
Eight days (seven nights) in the Beartooths, starting at Island Lake trailhead on July 31 and coming out below Lady of the Lake on August 7. Backpacking in red; day hikes in purple. Black dots are campsites and lunch stops.
1) Pack from Island Lake trailhead to Becker Lake, enjoy early evening storm;
2) Dayhike to Echo Lake, Lonesome Lake, and Albino Lake;
3) Pack to Pleiades Lake by Crystal Lake;
4) Pack to plateau SW of Desolation Lake;
5) Pack to Fossil Lake;
6) Pack to Rough Lake and Lone Elk Lake, loaf around;
7) Early morning dayhike in the drizzle to above Rough Lake, turn around, and pack down to Lady of the Lake;
8) Pack out to trailhead.
Trip should have included some time in Skytop Basin above Rough Lake and below Granite Peak, but events conspired otherwise.
Associated with the Map of Middle Earth I decided to try my luck at creating a dungeon map replicating what I read about in the Hobbit about the Lonely Mountain. As I look at this, even I was a bit confused about the orientation. Notice the title on the map and the direction north. Now notice the orientation of the numbers I wrote on the map. I would probably have confused myself quite a bit as a 12 year old DM.
Document BAnQ / Montreal Map: James Cane, 1846.
Le détail de cette carte mentionne une résidence inscrite dans un aménagement paysager en bordure de la rue Dorchester (boul. René-Lévesque), site qu'occupe actuellement la maison Hope.
We have worked our way up to visiting India, a vast, intimidating place for outside visitors, but also full of fascinating experiences, rich cultures, and of course, the unexpected.
One of the things I admire most about India is its utter frankness and inability to dissemble. India is what it is, all mass of humanity, colorful celebrations, crowded buses, dirty streets, polished temples, lonely beggars, spicy food, and hazy landscapes, and we are here to see it all.
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I know - I'm a sap. I'm still new enough to driving that this stuff is still interesting to me.
I took my first motorway journey yesterday - scary to say the least, then after a few minutes (getting into the traffic is the worst bit) very peaceful and relaxing.
The one thing I could never have predicted before learning to drive (at my advanced age!) was that I'd enjoy it so much.
Thanks to the wonderful Lorraine for coming with.
Maps of India is the largest resource of maps on India. This site provides all types of India map-Outline maps, physical maps, Political maps, Reference maps and India news maps-along with a large number of utility tools and informative write-ups.
Map of Oakland, Alameda and Vicinity. Showing Plan: Streets as opened and proposed. Compiled from the most reliable public and private surveys. Published by M.G. King C.E. Oakland, Cal. 1876
(From Library of Congress Geography and Map Reading Room)
Map of the South Caucasus countries (Abkhazia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Nagorny Karabakh, and South Ossetia)
Sometimes google maps gets things wrong. Nothing important obviously, but if you take a look at this bit of the map.... Look at the little details... Squint your eyes and concentrate now...
Vauxhall station is on completely the wrong side of the river! (This was since fixed but only after several months of wrongness)
Obviously that's a pretty serious navigational problem. Do you link to google maps when you email a friend with directions? Are you using google maps on your website? If you do this in the Vauxhall or Pimlico area you may not be being as helpful as you thought you were. Maybe it's time to use a better map, the open licensed map from the London-born not-for-profit OpenStreetMap.
The Map was drawn up at an unknown time by Thrór and his son Thráin/Elrond believed it was written on a midsummer night under a crescent moon with the Moon-letters giving the directions on how to open the door. It illustrated the Lonely Mountain, the river that flowed from it, the lands surrounding it, and lastly the existence of the secret-entrance on the western side of the mountain. It survived the destruction of the kingdom in TA 2770 by Smaug and was kept by Thrór as an heirloom of his people. In TA 2790 when Thrór grew old and decided to go off on an adventure of his own to the Mines of Moria, the map was given to his son Thráin for safe-keeping. In TA 2841, Thráin left his home in the Blue Mountains (Ered Luin) with a small company to try his luck with the map, intending to reach the Lonely Mountain despite the threat from Smaug, but he never got there. Instead, he was taken prisoner by the Orcs of Dol Guldur and imprisoned in its dungeons by Sauron. Sauron took his Dwarven Ring of Power.
The Moon-letters on the map read: Stand by the grey stone when the thrush knocks and the setting sun with the last light of Durin's Day will shine upon the key-hole.
In TA 2850, Gandalf went to Dol Guldur in secrecy and found Thráin dieing in captivity but before he died he gave Gandalf the map and the key to the secret entrance, and entrusted him to pass it on to his son Thorin. The map was presented to Bilbo during their visit to Bag End in late April, 2941 and used throughout their adventure.
Edited European Space Agency image of the density of stars from data from the Gaia Mission.
Image source: www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2018/08/Star_density_map
Original caption: The second data release of ESA’s Gaia mission, made in April, has marked a turning point in the study of our Galactic home, the Milky Way. With an unprecedented catalogue of 3D positions and 2D motions of more than a billion stars, plus additional information on smaller subsets of stars and other celestial sources, Gaia has provided astronomers with an astonishing resource to explore the distribution and composition of the Galaxy and to investigate its past and future evolution.
The majority of stars in the Milky Way are located in the Galactic disc, which has a flattened shape characterised by a pattern of spiral arms similar to that observed in spiral galaxies beyond our own. However, it is particularly challenging to reconstruct the distribution of stars in the disc, and especially the design of the Milky Way’s arms, because of our position within the disc itself.
This is where Gaia’s measurements can make the difference.
This image shows a 3D map obtained by focusing on one particular type of object: OB stars, the hottest, brightest and most massive stars in our Galaxy. Because these stars have relatively short lives – up to a few tens of million years – they are mostly found close to their formation sites in the Galactic disc. As such, they can be used to trace the overall distribution of young stars, star formation sites, and the Galaxy’s spiral arms.
The map, based on 400 000 of this type of star within less than 10 000 light-years from the Sun, was created by Kevin Jardine, a software developer and amateur astronomer with an interest in mapping the Milky Way using a variety of astronomical data.
It is centred on the Sun and shows the Galactic disc as if we were looking at it face-on from a vantage point outside the Galaxy.
To deal with the massive number of stars in the Gaia catalogue, Kevin made use of so-called density isosurfaces, a technique that is routinely used in many practical applications, for example to visualise the tissue of organs of bones in CT scans of the human body. In this technique, the 3D distribution of individual points is represented in terms of one or more smooth surfaces that delimit regions with a different density of points.
Here, regions of the Galactic disc are shown with different colours depending on the density of ionising stars recorded by Gaia; these are the hottest among OB stars, shining with ultraviolet radiation that knocks electrons off hydrogen atoms to give them their ionized state.
The regions with the highest density of these stars are displayed in pink/purple shades, regions with intermediate density in violet/light blue, and low-density regions in dark blue. Additional information from other astronomical surveys was also used to map concentrations of interstellar dust, shown in green, while known clouds of ionised gas are depicted as red spheres.
The appearance of ‘spokes’ is a combination of dust clouds blocking the view to stars behind them and a stretching effect of the distribution of stars along the line of sight.
An interactive version of this map is also available as part of Gaia Sky, a real-time, 3D astronomy visualisation software that was developed in the framework of the Gaia mission at the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, University of Heidelberg, Germany.
Further details including annotated version of the map: Mapping and visualising Gaia DR2
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