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"In the Navigatio sancti Brandani, the ocean voyage is imagined as a liminal phenomenon, suspended between earthly life in the terrestrial world and paradise, envisaged as an oceanic island, beyond it. Many famous medieval maps, such as the late thirteenth-century Hereford Map and its near-contemporary, the no longer extant Ebstorf world map, can be adduced to support the ocean’s conceptually peripheral status in this period. Nevertheless, the genesis of the paper on which this article is based lay in a simple observation: that in a corpus of detailed world maps drawn in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries – the same period in which the Voyage of St Brendan and texts like it were circulating across Europe – the notion of the ocean sea as a peripheral phenomenon is repeatedly and graphically counteracted."
"Recently Google Maps Mania reviewed the Hestia Project's Herodotus Timemap. Herodotus, sometimes known as the Father of History, was a fifth century Greek historian. In his 'Histories' Herodotus recounts the origins of the Great War between the Greeks and Persians and the rise of the Persian Empire."
The open source tool turns the vast history of the universe -- 13.8 billion years of information -- into an interactive, visual timeline. Features enable users to zoom in and out as they explore curated content about, for example, the history of life on Earth, extinction of the dinosaurs, or causes of World War I. Users also can author and share their own timelines about specific events or eras.
"This application shows the order in which all the 26 cantons joined the Swiss Confederation and it's based on Wikipedia and BFS datasources.
Created by Vasile Coțovanu, the project it's powered by GeoAdmin API, Boostrap 3.0 and it's open-sourced on Github."
"Digital Augustan Rome is an online interactive map of ancient Rome, as it looked around A.D. 14. The map is an accurate depiction of the size, location, and orientation of the various structures, roads, and water systems of the city at a pivotal phase in its transformation into the imperial capital."
"Adventurers love them, explorers devise them, and everyone uses them – maps.
From cave paintings to ancient maps of Babylon, Greece, and Asia, through the Age of Discovery (15th – 17th century) up until today, people have created and used maps as the essential tools to help them define, explain, and navigate their way through the world."
"OpenStreetMap represents physical features on the ground (e.g., roads or buildings) using tags attached to its basic data structures (its nodes, ways, and relations). Each tag describes a geographic attribute of the feature being shown by that specific node, way or relation."
"Geography: Geographical Skills: Map skills - Test"
"The over 120 historical maps in the Google Maps Rumsey Historical Maps site have been selected by David Rumsey from his collection of more than 150,000 historical maps; in addition, there are a few maps from collections with which he collaborates."
"One of the neatest that I’ve seen is this simple visualization of the path of this river between 1984 and 2012 as it appears to move like a snake:"
"There are, in other words, no perfect maps—just maps that (more-or-less) perfectly capture our understanding of the world at discrete moments in time. In his new book, A History of the World in 12 Maps, Brotton masterfully catalogs the maps that tell us most about pivotal periods in human history. I asked him to walk me through the 12 maps he selected (you can click on each map below to enlarge it)."
"CGPGrey recently released a new video tackling the question, "how many countries are there?" In the video he explains how countries are defined and recognized by various international organizations including the UN and the IOC. He also jumps into a brief commentary about the relationship between China and Taiwan. "
"Looking at the maps on the site, note the choice of style, the format and the mapmakers’ ideologies. To test your observations of how maps can create different images of the same world, try to make your own maps and see what they might say about you and your view of the world."
48 items | 3 visits
resources for unit of inquiry
Updated on Aug 25, 14
Created on Sep 09, 13
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