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Understanding the world through old maps
21+ hour, 49+ min ago (69+ words) The Osher Map Library, at the University of Southern Maine in Portland, is home to half a million rare maps, globes and atlases, dating as far back as the 15th century. Correspondent Martha Teichner explores the world as depicted by cartographers,…...
The spectacular folly behind the name of The Polygon
4+ day, 4+ hour ago (524+ words) Southampton's modern map wears the ghost of a spectacular eighteenth-century failure in plain sight. Southampton in the late 18th Century was not a port town of ocean liners and container ships, it was a hugely fashionable spa. Rich aristocrats and socialites…...
The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2594: Ptolemy's Geographia
1+ week, 6+ day ago (116+ words) Episode: 2594 Mapping the World: Ptolemy's Geographia. Today, a man and a map. To embed this piece of audio in your site, please use this code: This article is part of the podcast Engines of Our Ingenuity Have a News Tip?...
In Ancient Greece, Distance Was Measured By "Bematists," - People Specially Trained To Measure Distances By Counting Steps.
6+ day, 10+ hour ago (887+ words) National Odometer Day on May 12th each year provides an opportunity to learn a little bit about the odometer. An odometer is an instrument that indicates the distance traveled by a vehicle. It may be electronic, mechanical or a combination of…...
Tahir Garaev: The Historian Whose Worth Can't Be Measured in Dollars - GIS user technology news
1+ week, 3+ day ago (371+ words) GIS user technology news News, Business, AI, Technology, IOS, Android, Google, Mobile, GIS, Crypto Currency, Economics May 8, 2026 By GISuser When Tahir Garaev's name appears in search results, it's usually surrounded by academic citations, conference programs, or expert commentary on Caucasus…...
A Universal Language: What I've Learned About Maps
1+ week, 4+ day ago (581+ words) Long before humans agreed on alphabets, currencies, or calendars, they drew maps. From scratched outlines on cave walls to clay tablets etched with river bends to painted animal hides marking hunting grounds, maps predate nearly every other form of organized…...
From Landmaking to Placemaking: How Maps Tell a Story of Boston
1+ week, 4+ day ago (702+ words) If Boston is a "city of neighborhoods," their boundaries are neither fixed nor uncontested, let alone waterproof. Or so it appears in Andy Woodruff's book, "Boston in 50 Maps." His configurations and some of their predecessors make for the newest addition…...
The map will show you where your city was located during the time of Pangea
2+ week, 3+ day ago (121+ words) Scientists have updated Paleolatitude. org: the service shows at what latitude any point on Earth was before 320 million years ago....
Fake towns on real maps: Why 'phantom settlements' exist and how one became real'sort of
1+ week, 6+ day ago (1849+ words) Algoe, New York, was a fake town at the heart of a legal dispute between two mapmakers. When you look at a state map, you see cities and towns of various sizes and populations. Even the tiniest towns with a…...
The image is not from Antarctica, but from Turkey in May.
2+ week, 1+ day ago (128+ words) Haberler. com The image is not from Antarctica, but from Turkey in May. Lake Bal'k in A'r', one of Turkey's highest lakes, enchants onlookers with its completely ice-covered surface despite being in May. When the ice, which normally melts in…...