mapping - šø Land Surveying Photos - Land Surveyors United - Global Surveying Community2024-03-28T13:37:03Zhttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/photo/feed/tag/mappingAerial Topographic Survey Botswanahttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/photo/aerial-topo2023-01-04T19:02:57.000Z2023-01-04T19:02:57.000ZKabo Makukehttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/surveyors/KaboMakuke<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10925417098?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Aerial mapping for Topographic Survey</p></div>1948 geological map of Arran in 3D.https://landsurveyorsunited.com/photo/1948-geological-map-of-arran-in-3d-original-map-from2021-10-25T20:41:19.000Z2021-10-25T20:41:19.000Zā”Survenatorāhttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/surveyors/Survenator<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9736160098?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><div class="css-1dbjc4n">
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<div id="id__8u8uur0e9k8" class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-vrz42v r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">1948 </span><span class="r-18u37iz"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/geological?src=hashtag_click">#geological</a></span> <span class="r-18u37iz"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/map?src=hashtag_click">#map</a></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> of </span><span class="r-18u37iz"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Arran?src=hashtag_click">#Arran</a></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> in </span><span class="r-18u37iz"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/3D?src=hashtag_click">#3D</a></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">. Original map from </span>
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<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">, elevation data from </span>
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<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">. Can't decide if I prefer lighting from left or right... </span><span class="r-18u37iz"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Blender?src=hashtag_click">#Blender</a></span> <span class="r-18u37iz"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/3Dart?src=hashtag_click">#3Dart</a></span> <span class="r-18u37iz"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Scotland?src=hashtag_click">#Scotland<img class="r-4qtqp9 r-dflpy8 r-9cviqr r-zw8f10 r-10akycc r-h9hxbl" src="https://abs.twimg.com/hashflags/ICCT20WorldCup_2021_SCO/ICCT20WorldCup_2021_SCO.png" alt="" /></a></span> <span class="r-18u37iz"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/island?src=hashtag_click">#island</a></span> <span class="r-18u37iz"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/3DModel?src=hashtag_click">#3DModel</a></span></div>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">1948 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/geological?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#geological</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/map?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#map</a> of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Arran?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Arran</a> in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/3D?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#3D</a>. Original map from <a href="https://twitter.com/natlibscotmaps?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@natlibscotmaps</a>, elevation data from <a href="https://twitter.com/scotgov?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@scotgov</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/OrdnanceSurvey?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@OrdnanceSurvey</a>. Can't decide if I prefer lighting from left or right...<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Blender?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Blender</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/3Dart?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#3Dart</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Scotland?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Scotland</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/island?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#island</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/3DModel?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#3DModel</a> <a href="https://t.co/tWm01lwudN">pic.twitter.com/tWm01lwudN</a></p>ā Tartan Topography (@tartantopo) <a href="https://twitter.com/tartantopo/status/1452316823421177862?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 24, 2021</a></blockquote> <script src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" type="text/javascript"></script></div>230 Years of Survey Mappinghttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/photo/230-years-of-survey-mapping2021-09-02T19:45:03.000Z2021-09-02T19:45:03.000Zā”Survenatorāhttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/surveyors/Survenator<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9525253461?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p><a href="https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/275218dbc1c44551b45a1ef7a2bebd49" target="_blank"><img src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Uj9JNMQ0y0I/YNWRxn2T7gI/AAAAAAAA9sw/IuHHv0ATwBQlWzCmoECxqDycm4qjrax6QCLcBGAsYHQ/s523/four.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></p>
<p>230 years ago, on the 21 June 1791, the Board of Ordnance was founded in order to survey the southern coast of England to help protect Britain from possible French invasion. 230 years later the Board of Ordnance is still going strong, although these days it goes by the name Ordnance Survey. </p>
<p>To celebrate its 230th birthday the Ordnance Survey has released <strong><a style="color:#cc0000;" href="https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/275218dbc1c44551b45a1ef7a2bebd49" target="_blank">Ordnance Survey Mapping Through the Centuries</a></strong>, an Esri story map which both recounts the history of Britain's national mapping agency and also allows you to explore some of its celebrated maps. These maps include the Board of Ordnance's very first map of Kent and the southern coast of England closest to France.</p>
<p>The Ordnance Survey Mapping Through the Centuries story map also explores the history of mapping over the last two hundred years and the technological changes in cartography during that time (from trig pillars to orbiting satellites)</p>
<p><a href="https://maps.nls.uk/geo/find/#zoom=16&lat=51.53791&lon=-0.01063&layers=102&b=10&z=0&point=51.54067,0.00164" target="_blank"><img src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jBTEGrN5Uhw/YFxLsRARKeI/AAAAAAAA9EA/wacX4aLu_S0-3CN-4diY86VeSczaghjIACLcBGAsYHQ/s523/detroit.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></p>
<p>During lockdown I have had a lot of fun exploring historical Ordnance Survey maps. In particular I have used old Ordnance Survey maps to explore how my neighborhood has developed and changed over the last 150 years.Using vintage Ordnance Survey maps has given me a far greater understanding of how my neighborhood has changed over the last two hundred years and also helped make my local walks far more interesting.</p>
<p>The National Library of Scotland's <strong><a style="color:#cc0000;" href="https://maps.nls.uk/geo/find/#zoom=16&lat=51.53791&lon=-0.01063&layers=102&b=10&z=0&point=51.54067,0.00164" target="_blank">Ordnance Survey Map Finder</a></strong> is a great way to find and view vintage Ordnance Survey map of British towns and cities. Using the library's online map you can find old Ordnance Survey maps dating back as far as the 1860s. By exploring your neighborhood on these historical maps you can learn a lot about how an area has developed over time and about some of the local historical landmarks and buildings which have been replaced by more modern developments.</p></div>Ptolemyās Geography -World Map 150 A.Dhttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/photo/ptolemyworldmap2021-08-10T22:59:43.000Z2021-08-10T22:59:43.000Zā”Survenatorāhttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/surveyors/Survenator<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9406024701?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p><span class="oahvym-0 kijmGk">Of all the ancient maps, this one was surely the most influential. As Jerry Brotton writes inĀ </span><span class="oahvym-0 jNeEga">A History of the World in 12 Maps</span><span class="oahvym-0 kijmGk">, Claudius Ptolemyās remarkably comprehensive Geography ā completed around 150 A.D. ā āwould come to define mapmaking for the next two millennia.ā It wasnāt a map in the standard format, but an eight-volume book that claimed to describe the entire known world according to mathematical principles, with longitudinal and latitudinal coordinates for various locations. It boasted an astonishing 8,000 place names, including regions as far flung as Iceland and China. As with the Peutinger Table, the originals are lost. Likewise, the oldest known version comes from 13th-century Byzantium, where scholars resurrected the map that would dominate and inform cartographic efforts for centuries to come.</span></p></div>The Bedolina Petroglyphhttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/photo/bedolina-roccia-1-foto-rilievo2021-08-10T22:57:31.000Z2021-08-10T22:57:31.000Zā”Survenatorāhttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/surveyors/Survenator<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9406024100?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p><span class="oahvym-0 kijmGk">The mountain-dwelling people of northern Italy etched the Bedolina map into glacially polished granite in Valcamonica, a valley that contains one of the worldās greatest collections of rock art. The 8-by-14-foot petroglyph stands among hundreds of thousands of others, likely created in the first millennium B.C. Itās many abstract symbols are supposed to depict buildings, fields and paths, among other things.Ā </span><a class="sc-8pb8t8-0 bmSGPg ydadvh-0 eBaWns" href="https://proceedings.caaconference.org/files/2007/113_Alexander_CAA2007.pdf" target="_blank"><span class="oahvym-0 kijmGk">Scholars disagree</span></a><span class="oahvym-0 kijmGk">, though, on whether the map was meant as a portrayal of an actual geographical area, or only as aĀ </span><a class="sc-8pb8t8-0 bmSGPg ydadvh-0 eBaWns" href="https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/cart.53.1.2017-0020" target="_blank"><span class="oahvym-0 kijmGk">symbolic statement</span></a><span class="oahvym-0 kijmGk">Ā ā about the relationship between its creators and their environment, for example.</span></p></div>before computershttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/photo/before-computers2020-02-20T22:57:19.000Z2020-02-20T22:57:19.000Zā”Survenatorāhttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/surveyors/Survenator<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3879366096?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Before computers, we relied on t-squares, rulers & ink. Workers map the electrical system of Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1950. </span><span class="r-18u37iz"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/map?src=hashtag_click">#map</a></span> <span class="r-18u37iz"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/maps?src=hashtag_click">#maps</a></span> <span class="r-18u37iz"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cartography?src=hashtag_click">#cartography</a></span> <span class="r-18u37iz"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/geography?src=hashtag_click">#geography</a></span> <span class="r-18u37iz"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/topography?src=hashtag_click">#topography</a></span></p></div>Standing on 4' of snow in NC. 2016https://landsurveyorsunited.com/photo/standing-on-4-of-snow-in-nc-20162016-05-26T22:08:12.000Z2016-05-26T22:08:12.000ZRobert Whitehttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/surveyors/RobertWhite<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1206258787?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div>Crew Chief and his rodman... Standing on 4' of snow in NC. 2016</div>May, 2016https://landsurveyorsunited.com/photo/may-2016-12016-05-26T22:07:38.000Z2016-05-26T22:07:38.000ZRobert Whitehttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/surveyors/RobertWhite<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1206258441?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div>Crew Chief on Goat removal at Base Station.</div>May, 2016https://landsurveyorsunited.com/photo/may-20162016-05-26T22:07:21.000Z2016-05-26T22:07:21.000ZRobert Whitehttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/surveyors/RobertWhite<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1206258681?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div>Miles and Miles of Route Surveying... Plus a 670'+/- rise in Elevation... again Yaaaa...</div>April, 2016https://landsurveyorsunited.com/photo/april-20162016-05-26T22:06:08.000Z2016-05-26T22:06:08.000ZRobert Whitehttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/surveyors/RobertWhite<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1206258966?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div>Miles and Miles of Route Surveying...</div>2015https://landsurveyorsunited.com/photo/20152016-05-26T22:04:29.000Z2016-05-26T22:04:29.000ZRobert Whitehttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/surveyors/RobertWhite<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1206258661?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div>2015 First Place Plat in Commercial As-Built.</div>February, 2016https://landsurveyorsunited.com/photo/february-2016-12016-05-26T22:04:15.000Z2016-05-26T22:04:15.000ZRobert Whitehttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/surveyors/RobertWhite<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1206258611?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div>700'+/- ELEV. Drop to the bottom. Yaaaa..</div>February, 2016https://landsurveyorsunited.com/photo/february-20162016-05-26T22:03:52.000Z2016-05-26T22:03:52.000ZRobert Whitehttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/surveyors/RobertWhite<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1206258541?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div>Crew Chief and his rodman...</div>mapping secessionhttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/photo/mapping-secession2015-04-21T15:44:17.000Z2015-04-21T15:44:17.000ZJaybirdhttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/surveyors/Jaybird<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1206232668?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div>mapping secession
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</div>mid 19th century plan Plymouth Maphttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/photo/mid-19th-century-plan-plymouth-map2015-02-06T18:23:47.000Z2015-02-06T18:23:47.000ZJaybirdhttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/surveyors/Jaybird<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1206227227?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div>mid 19th century plan Plymouth Map
</div>Mercator 1569 world maphttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/photo/mercator-1569-world-map2014-06-14T21:44:58.000Z2014-06-14T21:44:58.000ZJaybirdhttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/surveyors/Jaybird<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1206205934?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div>The Mercator world map of 1569 is titled Nova et Aucta Orbis Terrae Descriptio ad Usum Navigantium Emendate Accommodata ("New and more complete representation of the terrestrial globe properly adapted for use in navigation"). The title shows that Gerardus Mercator aimed to present contemporary knowledge of the geography of the world and at the same time 'correct' the chart to be more useful to sailors. This 'correction', whereby constant bearing sailing courses on the sphere (rhumb lines) are mapped to straight lines on the plane map, characterizes the Mercator projection. While the map's geography has been superseded by modern knowledge, its projection proved to be one of the most significant advances in the history of cartography, inspiring map historian Nordenskiƶld to write "The master of Rupelmonde stands unsurpassed in the history of cartography since the time of Ptolemy."[2] The projection heralded a new era in the evolution of navigation maps and charts and it is still their basis. The map is inscribed with a great deal of text. The framed map legends (or cartouches) cover a wide variety of topics: a dedication to his patron and a copyright statement; discussions of rhumb lines, great circles and distances; comments on some of the major rivers; accounts of fictitious geography of the north pole and the southern continent. The full Latin texts and English translations of all the legends are given below. Other minor texts are sprinkled about the map. They cover such topics as the magnetic poles, the prime meridian, navigational features, minor geographical details, the voyages of discovery and myths of giants and cannibals. These minor texts are also given below. A comparison with world maps before 1569 shows how closely Mercator drew on the work of other cartographers and his own previous works, but he declares (Legend 3) that he was also greatly indebted to many new charts prepared by Portuguese and Spanish sailors in the portolan tradition. Earlier cartographers of world maps had largely ignored the more accurate practical charts of sailors, and vice-versa, but the age of discovery, from the closing decade of the fifteenth century, stimulated the integration of these two mapping traditions: Mercator's world map is one of the earliest fruits of this merger.
</div>First Japanese Buddhist maphttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/photo/first-japaneese-map-of-the-world2014-03-06T16:05:35.000Z2014-03-06T16:05:35.000ZLalith Senanayakehttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/surveyors/LalithSenanayake<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1206194857?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div>First Japanese Buddhist map of the world (1710)Showing Europe Amarica and AfricaCurtesy The Curators eye</div>train measurementhttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/photo/trainsurvey2013-12-31T12:01:07.000Z2013-12-31T12:01:07.000ZProf. Dr. Ninkov Tosahttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/surveyors/ProfDrNinkovTosa<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1206187342?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div>Train corridor measurement with GPS video Camera systemSystem</div>New surveyor weather maphttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/photo/new-surveyor-weather-map2013-01-25T01:29:55.000Z2013-01-25T01:29:55.000ZSurveyEarthinaDayhttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/surveyors/SurveyEarthinaDay<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1206130883?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div>global weather map combined with our <a href="http://landsurveyorsunited.com/page/new-lsu-member-map" target="_self">Global Surveyors Member Map</a> (<a href="http://landsurveyorsunited.com/page/add-yourself-to-global-surveyors-map" target="_self">add yourself to the map here</a>). View the weather map FULLSCREEN here: <a href="http://landsurveyorsunited.com/page/land-surveying-weather">http://landsurveyorsunited.com/page/land-surveying-weather</a><br />
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</div>Map of Aegyptushttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/photo/map-of-aegyptus2013-01-03T02:08:42.000Z2013-01-03T02:08:42.000ZSurveyEarthinaDayhttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/surveyors/SurveyEarthinaDay<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1206126155?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">While the ancient history of Egypt is both rich and well documented, western interest in the nation of pharoes began primarily with the conquests of Alexander the Great. By the time of Alexander, Persian influence had taken control of Egypt and the power of the eastern nation didn't escape his notice.<br />
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In order to finance his coming expeditions, Alexander crossed first to Egypt crushing what little Persian resistance there was. Taking control with relative ease, and being welcomed for his deliverance from Persian rule, Alexander abruptly altered Egyptian culture that would last for the next 900 years.</span></p>
<p style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">He first founded the city of Alexandria to act as a Greek style seat of government for the Nile nation. Many Macedonian and Hellenistic supporters were appointed to various positions of power and a unique social structure of ethnicities began to develop. Greeks and Macedonians occupied the elite status, of which native Egyptians had little to no ability or interest to joing, while they occupied the common classes. Occupying the lower tiers were other outside cultures such as Jews, Nubians and other neighbors.</span></p>
<p style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">After the death of Alexander in 323 BC, his conquests began to crumble into factional kingdoms. In Egypt, the Macedonian general Ptolemy I Soter (Saviour) eventually took the throne. He established a dynasty that would last 300 years, until Cleopatra and the age of Caesar. In this time, a successive line of Ptolemic Kings, of Macedonian descent ruled Egypt with varying degrees of success.</span></p>
<p style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">The early Ptolemies exanded Egyptian and Macedonian influence in the region through various conquests of neighboring territories. Immense wealth was accumulated in the process and Egypt was slowly becoming the power it once was. The Ptolemies also wisely adopted many Egyptian customs while encouraging Greek Hellenism to prosper. By the end of the Ptolemy dyansty, the rulers of Egypt were as much Egyptian in culture as they were Macedonian in ethnicity.</span></p>
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</div>Map of Germaniahttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/photo/map-of-germania2013-01-03T02:08:40.000Z2013-01-03T02:08:40.000ZSurveyEarthinaDayhttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/surveyors/SurveyEarthinaDay<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1206126084?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; color: #000000; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;"><strong>Germania</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Greek: ĪĪµĻĪ¼Ī±Ī½ĪÆĪ±) was the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a style="text-decoration: initial; color: #0b0080; background-image: none; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="Greek language" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language">Greek</a>and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: initial; color: #0b0080; background-image: none; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="Latin language" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_language">Roman</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>geographic term for the geographical regions inhabited mainly by peoples considered to be<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em><a class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: initial; color: #0b0080; background-image: none; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="Germani" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germani">Germani</a></em>. It was most often used to refer especially to the east of the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a style="text-decoration: initial; color: #0b0080; background-image: none; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="Rhine" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhine">Rhine</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and north of the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a style="text-decoration: initial; color: #0b0080; background-image: none; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="Danube" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danube">Danube</a>. The areas west of the Rhine were mainly<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a style="text-decoration: initial; color: #0b0080; background-image: none; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="Celts" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celts">Celtic</a>(specifically<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: initial; color: #0b0080; background-image: none; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="Gaulish" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaulish">Gaulish</a>) and had become part of the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a style="text-decoration: initial; color: #0b0080; background-image: none; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="Roman Empire" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire">Roman Empire</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a style="text-decoration: initial; color: #0b0080; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germania#cite_note-1"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a style="text-decoration: initial; color: #0b0080; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germania#cite_note-2"><span>[</span>2<span>]</span></a></sup></p>
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</div>ORBIS-VETERIBUS-NOTUS 1794https://landsurveyorsunited.com/photo/orbis-veteribus-notus-17942013-01-03T02:08:37.000Z2013-01-03T02:08:37.000ZSurveyEarthinaDayhttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/surveyors/SurveyEarthinaDay<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1206126000?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div>A 1794 map of the world as large and composite Dramatic Was it known to the Ancients, by JBB D'Anville. Covers all of Europe, Asia Minor, Arabia and India, much of Northern Africa, and parts of Southeast Asia. D'Anville compiled this map from various sources including Ptolemy, Herodotus, Thucydides, and others. In Africa, the author notes various cities from Ptolemy's Geographica, including Rapta, Axum, Garama, and others. Includes the Mountains of the Moon, Lakes of the Nile, and other conjectural destinations. Far in the south a note reads, Aethiopes Anthropophagi, which essentially translates to African Cannibals. In the Far East a number of classical locals are noted, including the island of Taprobana (Celon) and the empires of Southeast Asia. Details mountains, rivers, cities, roadways, and lakes with political divisions highlighted in outline color. Title cartouche appears in a baroque frame in the upper left quadrant. Cartouche is flanked on either side by malignant appearing figure with a telescope and a studious scholar reading a book. Includes eight distance scales, bottom left, referencing various measurement systems common in antiquity. Text in Latin and English. Drawn by JBB D'Anville in 1762 and published in 1794 by Laurie and Whittle, London.
</div>Map of Hispaniahttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/photo/map-of-hispania2013-01-03T02:08:34.000Z2013-01-03T02:08:34.000ZSurveyEarthinaDayhttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/surveyors/SurveyEarthinaDay<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1206126119?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p><strong style="color: #000000; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;">Hispania</strong><span style="color: #000000; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; display: inline !important; float: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>was the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a style="text-decoration: initial; color: #0b0080; background-image: none; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="Ancient Rome" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome">Roman</a><span style="color: #000000; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; display: inline !important; float: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>name for the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a style="text-decoration: initial; color: #0b0080; background-image: none; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="Iberian Peninsula" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iberian_Peninsula">Iberian Peninsula</a><span style="color: #000000; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; display: inline !important; float: none;">. Under the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a style="text-decoration: initial; color: #0b0080; background-image: none; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-xg-p: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" title="Roman Republic" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Republic">Republic</a></p>
</div>Atlas of Ancient and Classical Geography (ebook)https://landsurveyorsunited.com/photo/atlas-of-ancient-and-classical-geography-ebook2013-01-03T02:08:26.000Z2013-01-03T02:08:26.000ZSurveyEarthinaDayhttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/surveyors/SurveyEarthinaDay<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1206126162?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;"><em>The maps of the Classical Atlas have been scanned at a sufficient resolution to enable easy reading, but they may not display at an appropriate scale, depending on screen size, resolution, and window size; we recommend you use software that allows zooming to view them.</em></span></p>
<p style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;"><em>The numbers of the maps given in the Index pages are the same as those in the list in the main body of the Atlas, allowing cross-reference.</em></span></p>
<p style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="color: red;"><em>Note that the Latitude and Longitude given in the Index pages are from Greenwich, while the maps, as common with many of the times, have grids with Longitudes given both from Greenwich and Ferro. If you use the latter you won't find your target.</em></span></p>
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<h1 style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">INTRODUCTION</h1>
<p style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">THE accompanying Atlas has been included in this series for the greater convenience of the reader of āGrote's Greeceā and other works that ask a continual reference to maps of ancient and classical geography. The disadvantage of having to turn perpetually from the text of a volume to a map at its end, or a few pages away, is often enough to prevent the effective use of the one in elucidating the other. Despite some slight variations of spelling in the classical place-names used by different authors, there need be no difficulty in adapting the same Atlas to various works, whether they are English versions of hi</p>
</div>Dymaxion Maphttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/photo/dymaxion-map2012-05-30T23:51:10.000Z2012-05-30T23:51:10.000ZJaybirdhttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/surveyors/Jaybird<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1206093155?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div>The Dymaxion map or Fuller map is a projection of a world map onto the surface of a icosahedron, which can be unfolded and flattened to two dimensions. The projection depicts the earth's continents as "one island," or nearly contiguous land masses. The arrangement heavily interrupts the map in order to preserve shapes and sizes. The map was created by Buckminster Fuller. The March 1, 1943, edition of Life magazine included a photographic essay titled "Life Presents R. Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion World". The article included several examples of its use together with a pull out section that could be assembled as a "three-dimensional approximation of a globe or laid out as a flat map, with which the world may be fitted together and rearranged to illuminate special aspects of its geography."[1] Fuller applied for a patent in the United States in February 1944, the patent application showing a projection onto a cuboctahedron. The patent was issued in January 1946.[2] The 1954 version published by Fuller, the Airocean World Map, used a modified but mostly regular icosahedron as the base for the projection, which is the version most commonly referred to today. The name Dymaxion was applied by Fuller to several of his inventions. The Dymaxion projection is intended only for representations of the entire globe. It is not a gnomonic projection, whereby global data expands from the center point of a tangent facet outward to the edges. Instead, each triangle edge of the Dymaxion map matches the scale of a partial great circle on a corresponding globe, and other points within each facet shrink toward its middle, rather than enlarging to the peripheries
</div>GPS Positioninghttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/photo/gps-positioning2012-05-11T04:06:22.000Z2012-05-11T04:06:22.000ZFelix Olufemi Iyiolahttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/surveyors/FelixOlufemiIyiola<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1206092772?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div>GPS observation for Photo-pointing Project</div>Ground Control Point Using Promark 3https://landsurveyorsunited.com/photo/ground-control-point-using-promark-3-12012-03-15T13:58:36.000Z2012-03-15T13:58:36.000ZFelix Olufemi Iyiolahttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/surveyors/FelixOlufemiIyiola<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1206086273?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div>One of the Ground Control Points Established with Promark 3 for Mapping Project</div>Ground Control Point Using Promark 3https://landsurveyorsunited.com/photo/ground-control-point-using-promark-32012-03-15T13:58:09.000Z2012-03-15T13:58:09.000ZFelix Olufemi Iyiolahttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/surveyors/FelixOlufemiIyiola<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1206086299?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div>One of the Ground Control Points Established with Promark 3 for Mapping Project</div>UXO mappinghttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/photo/uxo-mapping2011-12-13T06:46:08.000Z2011-12-13T06:46:08.000ZGennadyhttps://landsurveyorsunited.com/surveyors/Gennady<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1198984255?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div>uxo area mapping on the border Cabinda - DRC</div>