Friday, January 15, 2010
Web maps show old views of Africa
Web maps show old views of Africa - BBC News, 11 January, 2007
"A collection of rare maps of Africa, dating from 1530 to 1915, has been made freely available on the internet by Northwestern University in the US.
Curator David Easterbrook says the antique maps not only show the growing geographical knowledge of Africa but the progression of colonisation.
'Early cartographers had not visited or surveyed the land, so they had to do their best guesswork,' he told the BBC.
All of the 113 maps can be examined in detail on the site or downloaded."
BBC News - Ancient map with China at centre goes on show in US
BBC News - Ancient map with China at centre goes on show in US
"A historic map of the world, with China at its centre, has gone on display at the Library of Congress in Washington.
The map was created by Italian missionary Matteo Ricci in 1602. It is one of only two copies in existence in good condition."
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
United Kingdom Ordnance Survey for the Masses: UK map data to be free at last : Consequences for the Internet
As written by Martin Bryant:
"The UK government has announced that it is to explore ways of making huge amounts of public data freely available for the first time....
Until now, the official Ordnance Survey maps of the entire UK have been only available to people willing to pay...."
See
UK map data free at last – what it means for the web
"The UK government has announced that it is to explore ways of making huge amounts of public data freely available for the first time....
Until now, the official Ordnance Survey maps of the entire UK have been only available to people willing to pay...."
See
UK map data free at last – what it means for the web
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