Time Lapse Images of Earth at Night Taken From the International Space Station
(Source: britneys-unicorn, via wedidntstartthefiree)
Hic Sunt Chartae
Here be Maps!
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#cdnhistory #map #aviation
Post-War Air Routes [1947]
Right click, open in new tab … to plan your long noisy trip on a piston-prop airliner.
“The world has, indeed, shrunk into one neighbourhood, and is still shrinking. In 1918 the aeroplane was scarcely more than an experiment, today the world’s airlines encircle the globe! Europe and Asia are closer to us than the next province was to our fathers a century ago.
“For good or ill the peoples of the world are being crowded together? Will they become a true community? Or will they become merely warring groups of nations flying at one another’s throats in every generation? That is the question which forces itself on the peoples of the world everywhere in this twentieth century.”
from: Building the Canadian Nation; George W Brown, Professor of History, University of Toronto; 1942-1947; J M Dent and Sons.
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#cdnhistory #map #aviation
Post-War Air Routes [1947]
Right click, open in new tab … to plan your long noisy trip on a piston-prop airliner.
“The world has, indeed, shrunk into one neighbourhood, and is still shrinking. In 1918 the aeroplane was scarcely more than an experiment, today the world’s airlines encircle the globe! Europe and Asia are closer to us than the next province was to our fathers a century ago.
“For good or ill the peoples of the world are being crowded together? Will they become a true community? Or will they become merely warring groups of nations flying at one another’s throats in every generation? That is the question which forces itself on the peoples of the world everywhere in this twentieth century.”
from: Building the Canadian Nation; George W Brown, Professor of History, University of Toronto; 1942-1947; J M Dent and Sons.
“Authorized for use in the Schools of Ontario and Manitoba”
Clapham Junction Station, Ilford Delta 3200 Olympus OM
(Images and information: all-that-is-interesting; wikipedia)
Wishing to expand the Spanish city of Barcelona in a way which contrasts with the old congested and epidemic-prone town, urban planner Ildefons Cerdà designed this 19th century extension: the ‘Eixample’. Eixample’s design uses a grid pattern with long streets, wide avenues, and rounded street corners in order to provide improved living conditions for its inhabitants, which includes increased lighting and ventilation within homes, more green space for public use, and seamless transport capabilities. Today, Eixample is home to approximately 262,000 people (according to most recent figures).
Someone needs to some serious explaining as to why Barcelona isn’t the capital of the world.
(via fuckyeahcartography)
Area of the Village of Shier Falls, Bytown (Ottawa). 1826.
Map of Italian Island of Pianosa, made (in)famous as the island where Yossarian et al were based in Joseph Heller’s Catch 22. I am posting this because a little geeky smile crossed my face at work today when I discovered I was working on the aerial charts of this island.
I know Yossarian was a bombardier and not a pilot or navigator but I couldn’t help thinking what he would have thought of me making it easier to fly to and from his little corner of crazy war.
The Turin Papyrus. 12th century BCE Egyptian map of Wadi Hammamat, Egypt.
1747_Bowen Map of the North Atlantic Islands,Greenland,Iceland,Faroe Islands(Maelstrom) Geographicus OldGreenland bowen-1747
(via fuckyeahcartography)
1569 Mercator World Map #cartography
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Model of the Crimean peninsula showing calorific expenditure for Neanderthals relating to topgraphy. Made by me to make inferences as to site location and hunting strategies.
