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Fantastic Maps

Fantastic Maps
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The Simpsons: Interactive Map of Springfield Discover Springfield, where live the Simpsons family; Homer, Bart, Marge, Lisa and Maggie. Roll over the places to discover a picture of it. The map of Springfield is based on the Guide to Springfield USA . I made this interactive, the job is not finished, there are allways framegrabs to add and add some functions to the map. If you want to know more about the show or Springfield in particular, check out these links: » Zoom-out opening sequence (animated gif) (in GABF05 & FABF08) » Where is The Simpsons' Springfield? » Official site of "The Simpsons" animated series on FOX » All Intros (Runs To Couch) of the 16th/17th Season (including zoom-out couch to space) » All the Simpsons on DVD via Amazon.com » The screencaps » Everything about The Simpsons Movie Source: Wikipedia Like The Map of Springfield?

We Wants It Some of the earliest full-on engagements I had with maps were those that were printed in the inside covers of books. But my sister’s Lord of the Rings volumes had huge folded inserts! Fantastic books need fantastic maps, and these unfolded a new world. This past weekend I spent some time revisiting this wonderful yellowed map of Middle Earth created by J.R.R. Tolkien and Pauline Baynes. I sketched tiny little map elements, inspired by their print, that I fed into an ArcGIS Pro style. It worked! These are maps that use a simple combination of layers (Natural Earth rivers, Project Linework coasts, and Living Atlas world landforms) and this style. All we have to decide is what to do with the map style that is given to us. How You can download the style file and save it to your machine. Creating the discrete forest was the biggest challenge. The second distinguishing feature of these maps is the strongly linear mountain chains. Why? Maps can be amazing and inspiring things. Happy Mapping! More:

Kai Schaefer: World Records is a nostalgic look at vinyl record albums and the turntables used to play them (PHOTOS). Kai Schaefer/Courtesy of Kopeikin Gallery Five years ago, Kai Schaefer had a big, empty wall in his new flat and needed something to fill it. He decided to make a photograph of a record. Although Schaefer grew up listening to tapes, one of the first records he listened to was Led Zeppelin IV. “I remember I was 12 or 13 and my father had the record Led Zeppelin IV,” Schaefer recalled via email. Drawing from Rolling Stone’s “500 Greatest Albums of All Time,” Schaefer began photographing some of the albums on the list. Schaefer isn’t a collector of vinyl or of turntables but works with collectors who allow him to borrow their resources to make the images. “World Records” is meant to pay homage to the era of analog acoustic art and to inspire the viewer to enter a nostalgic space when viewing the images. And he’s not done photographing records.

Thule In classical and medieval literature, ultima Thule (Latin "farthermost Thule") acquired a metaphorical meaning of any distant place located beyond the "borders of the known world".[5] By the Late Middle Ages and early modern period, the Greco-Roman Thule was often identified with the real Iceland or Greenland. Sometimes Ultima Thule was a Latin name for Greenland, when Thule was used for Iceland.[6] By the late 19th century, however, Thule was frequently identified with Norway.[7][8] In 1910, the explorer Knud Rasmussen established a missionary and trading post in north-western Greenland, which he named "Thule" (later Qaanaaq). Thule has given its name to the northernmost United States Air Force airfield, Thule Air Base in northwest Greenland, and to the smaller lobe of Kuiper belt object 486958 Arrokoth, visited by the New Horizons spacecraft. Classical antiquity and the Middle Ages[edit] Strabo, in his Geographica (c. Solinus (d. Modern research[edit] Modern geography and science[edit]

How to Design a Town Map Today a quick mini-tutorial. This isn’t a photoshop tutorial, nor is it a tutorial for a polished finished map. This is a step by step in my own town creation method when I’m creating the first sketch layout. The key here is to have the town layout make sense. 1. Towns adapt to their surroundings. Once you’ve placed the terrain, use that to inform the locations of the main buildings. After placing the major defences, I add a harbour for fishing boats (food), a market near the docks (commerce). 2. Roads get people where they need to go. Once we’ve laid in the main thoroughfare, add main roads to the source of food and commerce – these will be the high traffic routes. 3. With the major roads in place the map looks bare. 4. This can take a while, depending on the scale of the map and the level of detail you’re going for. And that’s it! I hope you found that useful as a walkthrough.

Corriendo con tijeras |Corriendo con tijeras Hyperborea Area north of Thrace in Greek mythology In Greek mythology the Hyperboreans (Ancient Greek: Ὑπερβόρε(ι)οι, pronounced [hyperbóre(ː)ɔi̯]; Latin: Hyperborei) were a race of giants who lived "beyond the North Wind". The Greeks thought that Boreas, the god of the North Wind (one of the Anemoi, or "Winds") lived in Thrace, and therefore Hyperborea indicates that it is a region beyond Thrace. This land was supposed to be perfect, with the sun shining twenty-four hours a day, which to modern ears suggests a possible location within the Arctic Circle during the midnight sun-time of year. neither by ship nor on foot would you find the marvellous road to the assembly of the Hyperboreans. Pindar also described the otherworldly perfection of the Hyperboreans: Never the Muse is absent from their ways: lyres clash and flutes cry and everywhere maiden choruses whirling. Neither disease nor bitter old age is mixed in their sacred blood; far from labor and battle they live.[1] Early sources[edit] Herodotus[edit]

Friday Freebie Maps 2018 | Paratime Design | Old School RPGs | Cartography This page is dedicated to the Friday Freebie maps that I created in 2018. You are free to use/print these maps for personal use only. If you wish to use any of these maps in a commercial or non-commercial product, please contact Tim Hartin to learn how. Click on an image below to go to the appropriate map/year. These maps by Tim Hartin are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Canada License. Inquiries about permissions beyond the scope of this license should be made by contacting Tim Hartin.

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