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Image:Map of USA-bw.png – Black and white outlines for states, for the purposes of easy coloring of states. Image:BlankMap-USA-states.PNG – US states, grey and white style similar to Vardion's world maps. Image:Map of USA with county outlines.png – Grey and white map of USA with county outlines.
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.
The zonal maps should be viewed as a kind of teaching aid – easily reproduced and designed to reinforce the idea of the Earth's sphericity and climate zones. T-O maps were designed to schematically illustrate the three land masses of the world as it was known to the Romans and their medieval European heirs.
Andrew Eliason has noted that the islands ylhas de magna and ye de saill that appear off the east coast of Jave la Grande on the Harleian mappemonde of c.1546, and on other Dieppe Maps under similar names, appear as I. de Mague and I. de Sally on André Thevet's map, Quarte Partie du Monde (1575), where they represent two islands discovered by ...
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The Ptolemy world map is a map of the world known to Greco-Roman societies in the 2nd century. It is based on the description contained in Ptolemy 's book Geography , written c. 150 . Based on an inscription in several of the earliest surviving manuscripts, it is traditionally credited to Agathodaemon of Alexandria .
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When making a derivative work, it is better to keep the Earth's outline, and consider using a properly centered map with a proper projection when making a regional map. See the discussion . When you upload a new version of this file, you irrevocably agree to release your modified version to the public domain.