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The Geographers' A–Z Street Atlas, commonly shortened to A–Z (pronounced "Ay to Zed"), is a title given to any one of a range of atlases of streets in the United Kingdom formerly produced by Geographers' A–Z Map Company Limited, now published by HarperCollins. [1]
Watling Street is a historic route in England, running from Dover and London in the southeast, via St Albans to Wroxeter. The road crosses the River Thames at London and was used in Classical Antiquity , Late Antiquity , and throughout the Middle Ages .
The first electronic street map of London appeared on CD-ROM in 1996. [2] Another five years later, a range of maps were launched for personal digital assistants (PDAs) and mobile phones running Windows Pocket PC. [2] The company launched a London A-Z street map app for smartphones running Symbian in 2005 and for iPhones three years later.
OpenStreetMap (abbreviated OSM) is a free, open map database updated and maintained by a community of volunteers via open collaboration. [4] Contributors collect data from surveys, trace from aerial photo imagery or satellite imagery, and import from other freely licensed geodata sources.
Maps offers street views of Madrid and Barcelona. Bing Maps offers street views for some cities. Sweden: EGmedia.se and CycloMedia Technology BV offers actual street views of the largest cities in Sweden e.g. Göteborg, Stockholm, Gävle and Malmö on pixel level with 10 cm accuracy. Eniro Kartor provides street-level view of the majority of ...
John Rocque's 24-sheet map. In 1746, the French-born British surveyor and cartographer John Rocque produced two maps of London and the surrounding area. The better known of these has the full name A Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster, and Borough of Southwark: it is a map of Georgian London to a scale of 26 inches to a mile (i.e. 1:2437), surveyed by John Rocque, engraved by John ...
The OpenStreetMap Foundation (abbreviated OSMF) is a non-profit organisation whose aim is to support and enable the development of freely-reusable geospatial data.Founded in 2006, it is closely connected with the OpenStreetMap project, although its constitution does not prevent it supporting other projects.
Street maps usually cover an area of a few miles or kilometers (at most) within a single city or extended metropolitan area. City maps are generally a specialized form of street map. A road atlas is a collection of road maps covering a region as small as a city or as large as a continent, typically bound together in a book.