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Historical atlases online Centennia Historical Atlas required reading at the US Naval Academy for over a decade. Historical map web sites list , Perry–Castañeda Library, University of Texas
Geographic maps use a projection to translate the three-dimensional real surface of the geoid to a two-dimensional picture. Projection always distorts the surface. There are many ways to apportion the distortion, and so there are many map projections. Which projection to use depends on the purpose of the map. [5]
In mathematics, particularly topology, an atlas is a concept used to describe a manifold. An atlas consists of individual charts that, roughly speaking, describe individual regions of the manifold. In general, the notion of atlas underlies the formal definition of a manifold and related structures such as vector bundles and other fiber bundles.
Atlases at DavidRumsey.com includes many important atlases from the 18th-20th centuries; Charting North America, maps and atlases in the New York Public Library Digital Collection; Ryhiner Collection Composite atlas with maps, plans and views from the 16th-18th centuries, covering the globe, with about 16,000 images in total.
Pages in category "Linguistic atlases" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. ... The Atlas of North American English;
Although Google has deployed a new system called neural machine translation for better quality translation, there are languages that still use the traditional translation method called statistical machine translation. It is a rule-based translation method that uses predictive algorithms to guess ways to translate texts in foreign languages.
The 1922 Times Survey Atlas of the World, and many other maps and atlases, are viewable online at DavidRumsey.com; Collins Maps blog which includes details on new Times atlases and relevant mapping issues, from Collins Geo Archived 2 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine, the publishers of Times Atlases
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