There's a good map geek read to accompany these fine images, entitled, "The Fourth Part of the World" by author Toby Lester. Here's a review from the Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/30/AR2009103002866.html
SEJ ---- "Wretches, utter wretches, keep your hands from beans." -Empedocles On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 14:52, Juan Lucas DomÃnguez Rubio < juan_lucas...@yahoo.com> wrote: > --- On Wed, 7/28/10, si...@mungewell.org <si...@mungewell.org> wrote: > > > From: si...@mungewell.org <si...@mungewell.org> > > Subject: [OSM-talk] 10 Greatest Maps that changed the world > > To: "talk" <talk@openstreetmap.org> > > Date: Wednesday, July 28, 2010, 8:24 PM > > As we're all map geeks here: > > > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1272921/Ten-greatest-maps-changed-world.html > > > > Simon. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > talk mailing list > > talk@openstreetmap.org > > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > > > All those were derived from the Catalan Atlas (Abraham Cresques, Majorca, > 1375) > > http://www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/LMimages/235C.jpg > > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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