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Fantasy cartography, fictional map-making, or geofiction is a type of map design that visually presents an imaginary world or concept, or represents a real-world geography in a fantastic style. [1] Fantasy cartography usually manifests from worldbuilding and often corresponds to narratives within the fantasy and science fiction genres.
10. 20th Century Tourist Maps Michael’s Early 20th-century tourist maps featuring national parks or famous cities and routes can sell for over a hundred dollars thanks to their nostalgic charm.
Demonstration of how to create a map using layers: 1.Valley ; 2.Plain ; 3.Hills ; 4.Rivers ; 5.Troops ; 6.Moves ; 7.Text ; 8.Thumbnail map ; 9.Legend. The use of JPEG is discouraged, since it is a lossy compression format and so will result in a blurry map or diagram. The quality of GIF images is better than JPEG. GIF images allow for the ...
Robinson projection of the world The Robinson projection with Tissot's indicatrix of deformation Map of the world created by the Central Intelligence Agency, with standard parallels 38°N and 38°S. The Robinson projection is a map projection of a world map that shows the entire world at once. It was specifically created in an attempt to find a ...
2.4.1 Hi-res 2 color images. 2.4.2 ... grey and white style similar to Vardion's world maps. ... These are azimuthal orthographic projections of the Earth from four ...
It provides many maps at different levels of detail, from whole lands to cities and individual buildings, and of major events like the Battle of the Pelennor Fields. The maps are grouped by period, namely the First, Second, and Third Ages of Middle-earth, with chapters on The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. A final chapter looks at geographic ...
Version 2.0 of Google Maps Mobile was announced at the end of 2007, with a stand out My Location feature to find the user's location using the cell towers, without needing GPS. [201] [202] [203] In September 2008, Google Maps was released for and preloaded on Google's own new platform Android. [204] [205]
The other option is to store the location and style of each label in the map data, just like the rest of the map; this is typically called annotation. [21] Text can be modeled as a Geometric primitive , like points, lines, and polygons, and in graphics software , it is stored in the map document in the same way as other geometry, allowing for ...