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Online maps, GPS Navigation, Driving Directions, Local Search. Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection - UT Library Online. Tamil Nadu Maps Online. HIST 217 Modern South Asia: Map Exercise. This assignment is intended to provide a sense of the physical setting over which the history of South Asia has unfolded. It will give an appreciation of the topography, distances, cities, states, and political boundaries of the British raj, the princely states of India, and the nations of present-day South Asia. In this exercise, students are encouraged to use J.

Schwartzberg (ed), A Historical Atlas of South Asia and Gordon Johnson (ed), A Cultural Atlas of India as well as other atlases and reference works. You are not obligated to complete this assignment on your own. You may collaborate with each other in preparing your maps (but beware of shared errors). The blank maps supplied in class are the ones that must be used. Maps are due at the beginning of class on Monday, 30 January. Using a pastel color, shade all areas above 1500 ft (not meters). * Note: You do not need to draw the borders of the regions on Map II (they changed frequently during the period we are studying). Dh3. Maps and graphics for South Asia, page 1 - Maps and Graphics at UNEP/GRID-Arendal. The GRID-Arendal Maps & Graphics Library is an on-going project to collect and catalogue all graphic products that have been prepared for publications and web-sites from the last 15 years in a wide range of themes related to environment and sustainable development.

There are currently 3022 graphics available in the database. Urban growth rate in Africa Africa’s urban centres are currently growing at an annual rate that is the fastest compared to other regions. The urban expansion is expected to continue, with cities like Abuja and Ouagadougou expecting very high growth in the next decade, while Cairo, Africa’s largest city, is projected to see a comparatively lower growth rate. 27 Feb 2011 - by Riccardo Pravettoni, UNEP/GRID-Arendal Water scarcity in Africa Wetlands are essential in providing and storing freshwater, but today more than half of South Africa’s wetlands have been destroyed or degraded and it is estimated that by 2025 South Africa will suffer from water scarcity.

Digital South Asia Library_ Schwartzberg Atlas. Maps of India. GIS Resources - India. Overview of Fuzzy Logic Site Selection in GIS Site selection is a type of GIS analysis that is used to determine the best site for something and fuzzy You Are Here: Data Visualizations at the Hyperlocal Level The Social Computing Group at the MIT Media Lab has launched an ambitious hyperlocal cartography project called “You Are Here” which has a goal Overview of Weighted Site Selection and Suitability Analysis Site selection is a type of analysis used in GIS to determine the best place or site for something. GPS Experts Call for Safeguards After GLONASS Outage The Russian GLONASS global satellite navigation system went down for 13 hours on April 2, but it’s not causing much Overview of Least Cost Path Analysis This article presents a summary of least cost path analysis, an important tool in GIS. Overview of Flow Mapping Flow maps are a type of map used in cartography to show the movement of objects between different areas on The World’s First Scratch and Sniff Interactive Story Map GIS and Gaming.