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Politics, Religion, Science, Culture and Humanities => Science, Culture, & Humanities => Topic started by: Body-by-Guinness on November 16, 2010, 08:00:03 AM

Title: Maps
Post by: Body-by-Guinness on November 16, 2010, 08:00:03 AM

I love maps. I use to orienteer, still help to collect data for cave maps, love eyeballing maps with political boundaries shown, am fascinated by the way terrain impacts battles (Agincourt was all about the terrain, sorry Anglophiles) and so on. Ran into this map today and figure it's worth starting a topic over:

1000 years of political boundaries in 5 minutes:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrZvn1qckIs&feature=player_embedded#![/youtube]

Title: Maps of War
Post by: Body-by-Guinness on November 16, 2010, 09:01:39 AM

Maps of war:

http://www.mapsofwar.com/

Title: Maps of 7 October Atrocities
Post by: Body-by-Guinness on October 31, 2023, 01:39:23 PM

Series of interactive maps:

https://oct7map.com/?fbclid=IwAR1HGpBzJPaTOGr3aW6I040XqEjPS1HFhchmrvsVHBNWrPz-JVLYm9648wg

Title: How many tennis courts in an acre?
Post by: ccp on February 11, 2024, 10:25:42 AM

https://measuringstuff.com/7-examples-of-how-big-an-acre-is-with-visuals/#1-american-football-field

Title: Re: Maps
Post by: Crafty_Dog on February 12, 2024, 12:55:28 PM

An acre is approx 4/5 of a football field?  Got it!  Very helpful way to think of it!

Title: Roman Road Map
Post by: Body-by-Guinness on June 07, 2024, 06:09:15 PM

Map of Roman roads shown as a subway schematic:

https://sashamaps.net/images/roman_roads_original.png