Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
English: A map of Canada exhibiting its ten provinces and three territories, and their capitals. (Lambert conformal conic projection from The Atlas of Canada ) Українська: Проекція Ламберта з атласа Канади.
The Atlas of Canada (French: L'Atlas du Canada) is an online atlas published by Natural Resources Canada that has information on every city, town, village, and hamlet in Canada. It was originally a print atlas, with its first edition being published in 1906 by geographer James White and a team of 20 cartographers. Much of the geospatial data ...
Atlante Internazionale del Touring Club Italiano (Italy, 1927–1978) Atlas Mira (Russia, 1937–present) Geographers' A–Z Street Atlas (United Kingdom, 1938–present) Gran Atlas Aguilar (Spain, 1969/1970) Historical Atlas of China (Taiwan, 1980) The Historical Atlas of China (China, 1982) National Geographic Atlas of the World (United ...
Witkin reported in the Toronto Star that “They pooled their savings, rented the building for about $750 a month and charged $1 club memberships and entrance fees of $1.50 to $3. [1] ” In keeping with the strict liquor laws of the day the venue did not have a liquor license and no alcoholic beverages could be served.
A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.
1915 Atlas of Canada, showing what is today the area in which Pape Village is located (then known as Todmorden), to the north of the (then) boundary of the City of Toronto Location within Toronto Coordinates: 43°41′15″N 79°20′52″W / 43.68750°N 79.34778°W / 43.68750; -79
Most of Wilkinson's maps were derived from English map publisher John Bowles. Following Bowles' death in 1779, Wilkinson acquired the Bowles map plate library, after which he updated the plates until 1794, when he released The General Atlas of the World. This atlas was reissued several times, in 1802 and 1809, before Wilkinson's death in 1825. [1]
Earth Platinum, published by Millennium House in 2012, [1] is the world's largest atlas at 6 ft × 4.5 ft (1.8 m × 1.4 m). It surpasses the famous Klencke Atlas at the British Library , which held the record of the world's largest atlas since 1660.