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2014-11-05 10:56:05     100 African Cities Destroyed By Europeans: WHY there are seldom historical buildings and monuments in sub-Saharian Africa! | SiliconAfrica.com

http://www.siliconafrica.com/terra-nullius/?...

When tourists visit sub-Saharan Africa, they often wonde... no historical buildings or monuments?”
The reason is simple. Europeans have destroyed most of t ...

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2015-08-15 20:29:45     25 maps that explain the English language - Vox

http://www.vox.com/2015/3/3/.../25-maps-that-explain-english

English is the language of Shakespeare and the language ... spoken in dozens of countries around the world, from the... tiny island named Tristan da Cunha. It reflects the infl... of international exchange, including conquest and coloni... Vikings thr

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2016-10-27 12:23:49     71 Thousand High-Res Historical Maps Available for Free Download | ArchDaily

http://www.archdaily.com/...maps-available-for-free-download

History and geography lovers rejoice! You can now see an... incredible maps from the David Rumsey Map Collection dat... contains more that 71 thousand maps and images that spa... 21st century and illustrate everything from the seven co... entire worl

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2016-11-03 12:10:23     A #NoDAPL Map – Northlandia

https://northlandia.wordpress.com/2016/11/01/a-nodapl-map/

There was one other, better map of the project that I fo... partially inspired by–a relatively simple yet powerful...
Dakota Access Pipeline Indigenous Protest Map by Jordan ...
Maps like this are great, and there should be more of th ...
My Wisconsi

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2014-01-15 12:33:18     A Makeover for Maps - NYTimes.com

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/20.../a-makeover-for-maps/?...

Climate Central’s Surging Seas project highlights land...
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Twitter
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... e is, in short, trying to rethink how data is presented.

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2016-11-01 11:04:07     A More Accurate World Map Wins Prestigious Japanese Design Award | Mental Floss UK

http://www.mentalfloss.com/...stigious-japanese-design-award

Unlike the Mercator projection, the 1569 mapping techniq... you'd probably recognize from the world maps you saw in... continents on the AuthaGraph aren’t lined up straight... angled in a way that provides a more accurate representa... distances b

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2016-09-07 10:56:44     About - Doarama

http://doarama.com/about

Doarama™
is a 3D visualization engine for geolocated activities. ...

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2022-09-27 08:01:06     About - Gough Map

http://www.goughmap.org/about/

The Gough Map test is internationally-renowned as one of... to show Britain in a geographically-recognizable form. Y... questions remain of how the map was made, who made it, w...
This website presents an interactive, searchable editio ...

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2014-03-06 07:33:06     ArtMaps | Tate

http://artmaps.tate.org.uk/artmaps/tate/#zoom=15&lat=51.5...

Tate holds over 70,000 items in its collection.
Help us locate them around the world.

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2015-07-24 09:44:45     ‘Print this Map. Get off the Internet. Take to the Streets': 5 of the Left’s Best Mapping Moments | Novara Wire

http://wire.novaramedia.com/...e-lefts-best-mapping-moments/

Mapping and activism have a long history. In the final d... Commune the military advances of the Versailles army wer... basis as the revolutionaries sought to keep them at bay.... nearly 100 years and the Situationists were once again m... altogether

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2015-05-05 12:51:38     Better than GPS: a history of cartography in 12 amazing maps | David Shariatmadari | Comment is free | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/...f-cartography-amazing-maps?...

Better than GPS: a history of cartography in 12 amazing maps
David Shariatmadari
David Shariatmadari
Smartphones may answer our navigation needs these days, ...

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2016-10-17 12:22:21     Brexit — a story in maps – Medium

https://medium.com/@jakeybob/brexit-maps-d70caab7315e#.h0...

Which areas voted Leave? Did London vote for Remain? The...
I wondered,
Is it possible to make a map that better reflects the mo ...
How much information can we include on one map?
Can we see how separated the Home Nations are on Brexit?

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2014-02-02 21:35:43     British Isles in 2100 by JaySimons on deviantART

http://jaysimons.deviantart.com/...h-Isles-in-2100-315945336

British Isles in 2100 by JaySimons
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British Isles in 2100by JaySimons
Digital Art / Drawings & Paintings / Other©2012-2014 Ja ...
... Belfast have become new capitals of Britain and Ireland.

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2013-09-07 16:04:18     Critiquing Maps II | Words in Space

http://www.wordsinspace.net/wordpress.../critiquing-maps-ii/

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2013-03-11 08:55:19     Crowdsourced 'Maker Map' Charts Nearby Hackerspaces and Hardware Shops | Wired Design | Wired.com

http://www.wired.com/design/2013/03/the-maker-map/

Screenshot via The Maker Map
We’ve long been fascinated with makerspaces, the DIY e ...
San Francisco is one such locale, with such a robust com ...

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2013-09-16 07:48:46     Curiosities: Maps That Will Change the Way You See the World

http://www.slightlywarped.com/...ps_that_will_change.htm#...

These are an interesting collection of maps that may hav... our planet in a completely different way!

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2022-12-16 07:43:28     Deep Mapping Estate Archives Project | Deep Mapping Estate Archives

https://deep-mapping-estate-archives-rcahmw.hub.arcgis.com/...

The main emphasis of the project was to bring together a... historical mapping into a publicly accessible web map en...

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2014-01-09 06:58:36     Elaborate New Portraits Drawn on Vintage Maps by Ed Fairburn | Colossal

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/...awn-on-maps-by-ed-fairburn/

Elaborate New Portraits Drawn on Vintage Maps by Ed Fair... drawing
Yr Ods EP Cover, 2013. Pencil on contoured maps showing ...

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2014-02-03 22:44:46     Flood Maps

http://flood.firetree.net/

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2015-09-20 13:40:09     Gaps in the Map: Why We’re Mapping Everything, and Why Not Everything Can, or Should, be Mapped – Words in Space

http://www.wordsinspace.net/...hing-can-or-should-be-mapped/

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2014-01-09 06:57:49     I’ve made a limited edition

http://clairebrewster.com/201.../ive-made-a-limited-edition/

It’s all for you © Claire Brewster 2013
It is an edition of 20, all hand cut by me, so even thou ...

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2014-07-05 11:52:19     Inglehart-Welzel Culture Map - Business Insider

http://www.businessinsider.com/...-welzel-culture-map-2014-7

Political scientists Ronald Inglehart of the University ...
The latest chart, published several years ago, includes ...
Check it out:
Inglehart World Values Map
... ow much things like language and religion shape culture.

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2016-04-11 07:58:30     Internet mapping turned a remote farm into a digital hell | Fusion

http://fusion.net/st.../internet-mapping-glitch-kansas-farm/

for the last 14 years, every time MaxMind’s database h... about the location of an IP address in the United States... identify, it has spit out the default location of a spot... from the geographic center of the country. This happens ...
Which happe

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2013-01-11 09:29:40     Is It Time London Had A New Tube Map? | LBC

http://www.lbc.co.uk/is-this-tube-map-an-improvement.../1850

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2022-09-11 09:02:44     Leaflet - a JavaScript library for interactive maps

https://leafletjs.com/#close

Leaflet is the leading open-source JavaScript library fo... interactive maps. Weighing just about 42 KB of JS, it h... features most developers ever need.
Leaflet is designed with simplicity, performance and usa ...

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2016-09-02 08:55:09     Letter gets there by hand-drawn map - BBC News

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-37233913

Instead of a postal address or a recipient's name, the sender had drawn a map of where they believed the farm to be, together with the following, in English:
"Country: Iceland. City: Búðardalur. Name: A horse farm with an Icelandic/Danish couple and th

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2014-10-03 12:41:14     Longest distance on land - Guy Bruneau • IT/GIS Consulting services

https://sites.google.com/site/gu.../longest-distance-on-land

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2014-02-26 10:42:11     Map Kibera | Map Kibera

http://mapkibera.org/

Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya, was a blank spot on the map un... when young Kiberans created the first free and open digi... own community. Map Kibera has now grown into a complete ... community information project.

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2024-02-19 20:39:47     Mappa Mundi: The greatest medieval map in the world - BBC Travel

https://www.bbc.com/...he-greatest-medieval-map-in-the-world

From a small island in the Venetian lagoon, a 15th-Century monk somehow designed an astonishingly accurate planisphere of the world.

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2016-12-27 19:54:49     Mapped: Which country is across the sea from Wales' coast? - BBC News

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-38331563

Have you ever stood on a beach in Wales and wondered wha... side of the ocean?
Finding the answer is not as simple as drawing a straigh ...
Map experts at Esri UK have created an interactive map w ...
Pembroke in Pembrokeshire, for example, faces Antarct

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