From the Scout Report comes this interesting item:

Mapping History
http://www.bl.uk/learning/artimages/maphist/mappinghistory.html

Queen's tantrums? Children's puzzles? Those might not be the first things to
come to mind when thinking about maps, but when one is considering the
British Library's online Mapping History exhibit, both those curious
subjects and others are definitely present. Given that the Library has
thousands of maps spanning the known world, this collection helps remind
users "there is often more to a map than meets the eye." The collection is
divided into four areas, including "Worlds at war" and "Wealth and poverty".
Each section contains four to seven maps along with a brief essay that
explains the importance of each document. Perhaps the most delightful
section is titled "Deception, lies, and made-up lands". Here visitors can
wander across a Chinese map of the world from 1644 and a map of Wellington
in New Zealand from 1840 that gives the city an orderly appearance that bore
only a partial resemblance to actual conditions on the ground. [KMG]

-tj

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J. T. Johnson
Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA
www.analyticjournalism.com
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"You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the
existing model obsolete."
-- Buckminster Fuller
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