#old maps

[mapsontheweb]

The map of the world according to Anaximander (610-546 BC). He is considered one of the founders of geography.

[svetiseva]

A little Fanart of Dimension20's the Never After map, I absolutely adored that campaign!

[adambibliophile]

History speaks for itself.

[mapfail]

Map made in the 19th century about the North American colonies.

John Bartholomew was a Scottish cartographer in the XIX century. The map shows what the North American colonies looked like in 1715 along with erroneous geographic notions of the period.

[dbielski]

My current mood -- with images I pulled from Pinterest.

[life-spire]

[freshhotflavors]

watch out, 'cause here there be dragons!! 🗺🐉 midi skirt with pockets sizes xxs-6xl

[schistostegapennata]

Obsessed by the sheer number of sea monsters on this map of Africa that I came across! This is only 1/4 of it, and look at how many the cartographer put in!!! Convinced this expanse of ocean beyond Madagascar was included just so he could put in the sea monsters.

And lots of close-ups, because you need to see them!!!

And a link to the source (Il disegno della geografia moderna de tutta la parte dell'Africa, Giacomo Gastaldi, 1564) so you can all have fun seeing them up close and personal too: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb00092152?page=,1

[sonyaheaneyauthor]

Old postcard: a map of Ukraine from 1919.

[emmiefish]

Octoadber Day 11 - Mythological Took some days off but was inspired by today's word to do some spoofin' on old school map sea monsters!

[ross-hori]

A few weeks ago I went to Himeji armed with a history book. Within its bilingual pages was a map of the city from the 1800s showing how it probably was laid out at the end of the 1700s.

I spent a while with the map (see below), walking the streets and working out what was what. The modern map aligns reasonably well with this drawn one, and it is possible to see where plots of land have merged and how part of the moat has been taken over by a road.

A whole island has been lost after being infilled and now serves as a zoo, and large parts of the outer moat have been lost under roads.

If I'm right, the three temples in the photos are the purple blocks on the right hand side of the map. Much of the road layout around them looks intact too. Where it has been lost there appear to be echoes of it in shortened side roads and property boundaries.

I'll head back there in a month or three and take another look. The area on the backside of the castle from the station looks interesting. It's now a library and driving school (I think).

If you're interested in Japanese Castles and how they are laid out and evolved, The Castles and Castle Towns of Japan by HIRAI Kiyosi and translated by Watanabe Hiroshi is my source. It's a bilingual book that's part of a series covering different aspects of Japanese architecture.

(I posted a version of this on my blog)

[mapsontheweb]

Aboriginal art, mapping a landscape differently

[ignorethisatyourperil]

[vra-luci]

Just out of curiosity, If I decided to post my combination of every map of Narnia and Adjoining Lands + the Eastern Sea, how many people would be interested in seeing it, because I would like to share it because I have spent a lot of time on it. It is not yet finished and won’t be for a few months but when it is…

[probsdontrememberme]

Crawling back to my fantays map phase