We went to the Ulster Museum yesterday, where there is a very good and full exhibition about the Troubles. One of the exhibits is a map from the Roads Service from 1979 showing exactly which bits of Belfast were closed off for security reasons.


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This is an update from last week's post, where I considered a slightly different version of the first part of this question. I have illustrated this with some nice maps, all taken from Google, but with the latitude and longitude grid developed by Bill Chadwick of the Bracknell District Caving Club (a really neat idea which nobody else seems to have ( Read more... )

I’m just starting Nisi Shawl’s Everfair, which made the Nebula finalists this year (but missed the Hugos, finishing 8th on the Best Novel ballot). The frontispiece is this map, which I found a little confusing:


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Second paragraph of third section: The accompanying map (fig. 1) shows the downtown area’s original streams and shorelines, to the extent that I have been able to locate them. The original boundaries and features of figure 1 are based on the maps of A. Boschke (1856-58), James Kearney and others (1838), A. C. Harmon (1931), James R. Dermott (1797 ( Read more... )

I'm in D.C. for a few days, and have been musing on the geography of the city - how the familiar grid of streets attempts to drown out the underlying landscape, and sometimes succeeds.

Googling around historical maps, I discovered Don Lockwood’s fascinating 1990 reconstruction of the topography of the Federal City as it would have been in 1791, ( Read more... )

I posted last week about my efforts to discover whether or not the house where I lived in Germany in the summer of 1986 was, as my landlord's daughter claimed, situated astride the old frontier between the Grand Duchy of Baden and the Kingdom of Württemberg ( Read more... )

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10 Things I Learned Arguing With Strangers Online
Actually quite good advice.
(tags: internet rhetoric )

Some Very Curious Maps of London
Sounds like an interesting book!
(tags: london maps )

Launch of Sheela-na-Gigs Map
Looks very useful!
(tags: northernireland archaeology ireland maps )

35 Years Of American Death
Statistics and maps. Grimly fascinating.
(tags: Death ushealth Maps )

#Kazakhstan education ministry establishes working group to transfer alphabet to Latin
From қазақша to qazaqşa?
(tags: Language kazakhstan alphabets )

French Candidates Talk of ‘Frexit,’ but Le Divorce Would Be Chaotic
Great piece by @StephenFidler1.
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