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City Center => Zocalo => Topic started by: Bourbon Spirit on April 26, 2012, 06:52:17 AM

Title: A Map a Day Keeps... Well, Something Away.
Post by: Bourbon Spirit on April 26, 2012, 06:52:17 AM
Everyone likes maps! I do, at least, and I have a fairly large collection in my bookmarks. So, in the spirit of Taijitu civic pride I present to you this thread. Every day a new map.

Today is the 25th of April.

Today's Map is: Europe, Circa 1910s (http://maps.omniatlas.com/europe/19130423/)
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Post by: Eluvatar on April 26, 2012, 03:45:37 PM
I love these maps :D
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Post by: Bourbon Spirit on April 26, 2012, 04:14:14 PM
Today is the 26th of April.

Today's Map is: Interactive Map of the Napoleonic Wars (http://www.worldology.com/Europe/napoleonic_wars_imap.htm)
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Post by: Myroria on April 26, 2012, 04:19:54 PM
OMG I LOVE MAPS
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Post by: Eluvatar on April 26, 2012, 04:37:51 PM
Pretty detailed. The author could have followed the real borders more closely though :/
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Post by: Gulliver on April 27, 2012, 06:38:15 PM
Damn, that's a lot of French conquests.
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Post by: Bourbon Spirit on April 27, 2012, 07:32:35 PM
Today is the 27th of April.

Today's map is all the maps for WWI that you'll ever need (http://www.firstworldwar.com/photos/maps.htm).
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Post by: Eluvatar on April 28, 2012, 03:54:54 AM
NICE!!
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Post by: Bourbon Spirit on April 28, 2012, 11:57:08 PM
Today is April 28th!

Today's series is on the Spanish Civil War: here (https://www2.bc.edu/~heineman/maps/SpCW.html).
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Post by: Bourbon Spirit on April 29, 2012, 08:17:29 PM
Today is April 29th.

Today's map is of Africa, circa 1897, (http://etc.usf.edu/maps/pages/2600/2657/2657.htm) showing the borders established by the Berlin Conference of 1885.
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Post by: Delfos on April 29, 2012, 11:44:11 PM
Today is April 29th.

Today's map is of Africa, circa 1897, (http://etc.usf.edu/maps/pages/2600/2657/2657.htm) showing the borders established by the Berlin Conference of 1885.

Portugal and Britain have one of the oldest alliances in effect, yet the British liked to abuse whenever they had the upper hand, the whole problem was a train route and it's adjacent territories for resource exploration.
Pink Map, African Portuguese colonies disputed by British Empire (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Map)
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Post by: Bourbon Spirit on April 30, 2012, 02:08:36 AM
Today is April 29th.

Today's map is of Africa, circa 1897, (http://etc.usf.edu/maps/pages/2600/2657/2657.htm) showing the borders established by the Berlin Conference of 1885.

Portugal and Britain have one of the oldest alliances in effect, yet the British liked to abuse whenever they had the upper hand, the whole problem was a train route and it's adjacent territories for resource exploration.
Pink Map, African Portuguese colonies disputed by British Empire (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Map)

To be fair to the Brits, if they abused the alliance "whenever they had the upper hand," that would be all the time. ;)
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Post by: Delfos on April 30, 2012, 02:54:49 AM
Nope, "the old alliance" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Portuguese_Alliance) was done in the 1300s, Portugal was a super-power around the 1500s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_empire), England only had the "upper hand" probably around 1700s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire) with their maritime expansions after overpassing one of their main enemies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Empire). I'd say it's tied, around 300 years of upper-hand to each party, wouldn't you say?
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Post by: Myroria on April 30, 2012, 07:24:51 PM
Today is April 29th.

Today's map is of Africa, circa 1897, (http://etc.usf.edu/maps/pages/2600/2657/2657.htm) showing the borders established by the Berlin Conference of 1885.

Great map. It's a pity that so many people tend to forget about the consequences of European greed and abuse in Africa and place blame for the continent's state where it doesn't belong.
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Post by: Gulliver on April 30, 2012, 08:51:22 PM
I didn't know the Berlin Conference was a thing until I saw that map. I feel rather dumb now.
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Post by: Bourbon Spirit on May 01, 2012, 02:08:07 AM
Nope, "the old alliance" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Portuguese_Alliance) was done in the 1300s, Portugal was a super-power around the 1500s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_empire), England only had the "upper hand" probably around 1700s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire) with their maritime expansions after overpassing one of their main enemies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Empire). I'd say it's tied, around 300 years of upper-hand to each party, wouldn't you say?

Not really at all, I'd say. The treaty looks from my point of view as an attempt by Portugal to co-opt a dangerous rival to its tenuous colonial holdings or, harking back to older times, looking to gain the backing of a potent regional power against its perennial antagonists. I really look in vain for a Portuguese Wellington, or a English John I Master of the Order of Aviz. Of course, everyone is entitled to their own interpretation especially with a treaty that is, in all reality, a dozen treaties with numerous manifestations and eras of irrelevant dormancy. There is probably no room for blanket statements. Perhaps we can just settle that both sides thought they had more to gain from being friends than being enemies, regardless of their relative dispositions of power?  

Today is April 30th, today's maps is an interactive one of the North African  campaign of WWII (http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/animations/wwtwo_map_n_africa/index_embed.shtml).
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Post by: Bourbon Spirit on May 02, 2012, 03:53:46 AM
Today is March 1st.

Who doesn't like uboats (http://uboat.net/maps/)?
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Post by: Eluvatar on May 03, 2012, 02:56:54 PM
Today is March 1st.

Who doesn't like uboats (http://uboat.net/maps/)?

Surely you mean the first of May.

And Uboats are a terrible, terrible thing.
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Post by: Delfos on May 03, 2012, 03:00:37 PM
Today is March 1st.

Who doesn't like uboats (http://uboat.net/maps/)?

Surely you mean the first of May.

And Uboats are a terrible, terrible thing.

Das Boot shows that
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Post by: Bourbon Spirit on May 03, 2012, 10:55:10 PM
Today is March 1st.

Who doesn't like uboats (http://uboat.net/maps/)?

Surely you mean the first of May.

And Uboats are a terrible, terrible thing.

Oh quite right! My mistake.

Yesterday was May 2nd and is deserving of some more World War I (http://www.firstworldwar.com/maps/warplans.htm) maps (accessible on the upper-right side).

Today is May 3rd and today's map is about... Coal (http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/view/all/what/Coal?sort=Pub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No).
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Post by: Eluvatar on May 08, 2012, 05:07:51 PM
Coal, glorious coal,
keeps me warm in the win-ter...
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Post by: Bourbon Spirit on May 09, 2012, 08:21:45 PM
Goodness! I am falling behind.

May 4th, a map (http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/2005/R2208.pdf). Okay, actually a RAND report on the Fall of South Vietnam, but it does have a ton of nifty maps.

May 5th, an interactive map of Europe. Turn on your speakers for an awesome British voice (http://www.the-map-as-history.com/demos/tome03/index.php)!

May 6th, a ton of maps regarding the split up of India and Pakistan and Bangladesh (http://www.ndu.edu/nesa/docs/Gill%20atlas%20final%20version.pdf).

May 7th, another map in the similar vein of thought (http://www.the-map-as-history.com/demos/tome11/04_independence_india_pakistan.php).

May 8th, a selection of mildly useful maps on the Gulf. Link (http://gulf2000.columbia.edu/maps.shtml).  

May 9th, a map showing the convoluted nature (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2006/05/30/GR2006053000018.html) of the West Bank.
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Post by: Gulliver on May 09, 2012, 09:32:19 PM
Still not as convoluted as old timey Germany was.
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Post by: Myroria on May 09, 2012, 10:16:41 PM
Europe: the only place in the world where "being thrown into horse dung" was too nonsensical to justify millions lost in a 30 year war, so they changed it to "an assassination" the second time around. (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Holy_Roman_Empire_1648.svg)
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Post by: Gulliver on May 10, 2012, 12:46:44 AM
It's like modern art.
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Post by: Eluvatar on May 24, 2012, 09:40:19 PM
10:44 < GoalVA> http://orbis.stanford.edu/
10:44 < GoalVA> ^ A google maps style approach to trying to map out the Roman empire at its height
10:44 < GoalVA> Very interesting
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Post by: Bourbon Spirit on June 09, 2012, 04:18:15 PM
Normandy! (http://www.ddayhistorian.com/maps.html)
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Post by: Eluvatar on June 09, 2012, 07:50:47 PM
Snazzy! :)
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Post by: Gulliver on June 09, 2012, 09:15:04 PM
A few days too late :p
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Post by: Bourbon Spirit on June 12, 2012, 06:32:23 PM
A few days too late :p

A map a day may be a little... Too much. ;)

A map... A day... On some days.

Link (http://www.sixdaywar.co.uk/maps.htm)
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Post by: Bourbon Spirit on June 29, 2012, 06:08:52 AM
This map of the Eastern front is pretty awesome. Here (http://www.krunch.ru/mapsonline.htm)