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Re: Maps

Postby JohnnyFishfinger » Wed Dec 31, 2008 12:04 pm

the museum of old maps in Romania.

http://muzeulnationalalhartilor.com/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1

it used to be under the patronage of the old prim minister (the most corrupt person on this planet!!) so it had a lot of nice funding. one of the few good things he did. it's both in Ro and En.

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Re: Maps

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Postby Woodsman » Tue Jan 20, 2009 3:56 pm

coldharvest wrote:Do you imagine that many of the posters don't have Atlases?


I cannot imagine it at all. They are one of my most favorite references.

Personally, I like compact and yet comprehensive atlases. I am also impressed by the big atlases, actually I enjoy those more, but who can carry one of those around? It is awful hard to get specific on features with small pages. I just bought an atlas last week to show a friend of mine where we could go on a trip. It is the Hammond Explorer Atlas. It's only a little larger Width x Length than a piece of notebook paper and only maybe 6mm thick, but it has the coverage I was looking for.

Maybe I have a heads up on this as one of my professional skills is cartography. I make many maps every year by necessity. I can look at aerial imagery without any lines drawn on it just as if it were a map as often that's all I have to get around in places with no signs at all.

...yet I can still get lost in cities!
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Re: Maps

Postby HockeyGuy » Wed Feb 18, 2009 7:12 am


Nice find!
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Re: Maps

Postby Chimborazo » Tue Mar 03, 2009 6:17 pm

Slightly off topic, but I thought this was cool:

The world's largest compass rose, drawn on the desert floor at Edwards Air Force Base in the US.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/Jfader_dryden.jpg
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Re: Maps

Postby coldharvest » Tue Mar 03, 2009 6:54 pm

that is wicked cool
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Re: Maps

Postby Chimborazo » Tue Mar 03, 2009 9:20 pm

I just went to Google Earth to check it out. It's even cooler when you see it by the runways.

Which is interesting to me. Look at the rose in relation to the runways, and tell me if anything looks off to you. I don't want to say what until people have looked at it. Maybe it's just the photo.
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Re: Maps

Postby Chimborazo » Tue May 19, 2009 6:47 pm

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Re: Maps

Postby vagabond » Tue Aug 11, 2009 3:27 am

http://www.openstreetmap.org/

And yes, I've been dorking it up and actually contributing. It's easier to draw lines on sat imagery than to make up stuff to put on wikipedia...

If I were better at math maybe I go back to school and do a GIS cert.

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Re: Maps

Postby Kurt » Sun Aug 16, 2009 9:50 pm

I found this map online at an old professor's website. It shows an island that is not on other maps but still has been reported to exist many times in the past.

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Re: Maps

Postby vagabond » Tue Aug 18, 2009 11:17 pm

Which one? Hawaii? Seems like a lot of people around here only think of it as mythical
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Re: Maps

Postby Chimborazo » Wed Aug 19, 2009 3:00 pm

Kurt wrote:I found this map online at an old professor's website. It shows an island that is not on other maps but still has been reported to exist many times in the past.

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Weird stuff.


Dammit Kurt, now I have that song stuck in my head.
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Re: Maps

Postby coldharvest » Fri Sep 04, 2009 3:09 pm

Kurt wrote:I found this map online at an old professor's website. It shows an island that is not on other maps but still has been reported to exist many times in the past.

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I hear they had some weird shit going on there in the mid 60's.....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfR7qxtgCgY
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Re: Maps

Postby Caliban » Fri Sep 04, 2009 3:22 pm

Kurt wrote:I found this map online at an old professor's website. It shows an island that is not on other maps but still has been reported to exist many times in the past.

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Weird stuff.



No,must be a coincidence as the theme song says quite clearly 43 seconds in that it is an uncharted isle. They couldn't possibly have been lost for three series if it was so obviously a charted isle
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Re: Maps

Postby Tonne » Tue Feb 09, 2010 3:09 am

check out www.mapstor.com. Went to the public library today and found a travelguide that uses them. Old maps from Russia and Eastern Europe of even the most remote places, very detailed and accurate you can even use them with you GPS they say. Only thing is that they're in russian.
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