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Encarta also generated a visible-light moon atlas with names of major craters and hyperlinks. However, it did not include a planetarium, but instead had a small interactive constellation-only map. [citation needed] In addition to database generated maps, many other illustrative maps in Encarta ("Historical Maps
On November 20, 1997, Microsoft released an offline virtual globe in the form of Encarta Virtual Globe 98, followed by Cosmi's 3D World Atlas in 1999. The first widely publicized online virtual globes were NASA WorldWind (released in mid-2004) and Google Earth (mid-2005).
US Census Bureau map products; MapQuest World Atlas - United States; Microsoft/Encarta/Expedia World Atlas with atlas for North America to street level. Multimap World Atlas - United States; Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection - United States has an extensive online collection of scanned maps of the US.
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 States, 1963–present) Pergamon World Atlas (1962/1968) Times Atlas of the ...
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.
It's hard to believe one of Sex and the City's most shocking deaths is old enough to order itself a Cosmopolitan.. In a show full of unforgettable moments, season 6's episode 18, aptly titled ...
The De Virga world map was made by Albertinus de Virga between 1411 and 1415. Albertin de Virga, a Venetian, is also known for a 1409 map of the Mediterranean, also made in Venice. The world map is circular, drawn on a piece of parchment 69.6 cm × 44 cm (27.4 in × 17.3 in). It consists of the map itself, about 44 cm (17 in) in diameter, and ...
A new HGTV designer is taking the reins on Love It or List It!. Following longtime co-host Hilary Farr's announcement that she was leaving the show in 2023 after 19 seasons, the long-running HGTV ...