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Post-colonial: Spanish place names that have no history of being used during the colonial period for the place in question or for nearby related places. (Ex: Lake Buena Vista, Florida, named in 1969 after a street in Burbank, California) Non-Spanish: Place names originating from non-Spaniards or in non-historically Spanish areas.
In 2013, Parks Canada began a 2-year collaboration with Google to provide street view images of the most iconic parks and heritage places in Canada. [9] In November 2013, the first set of images were released. [10] In 2014, Street View imagery of Fort McMurray was uploaded. The northern Alberta city was the last remaining major Canadian urban ...
The Instituto Geográfico Nacional (IGN), or National Geographic Institute is a Spanish government agency, dependent on the Spanish Ministry of Public Works. Founded in 1870, it is the national mapping agency for Spain , together with the Centro Nacional de Información Geográfica (CNIG).
Rancho Buena Vista was a 2,288-acre (9.26 km 2) Mexican land grant in present day San Diego County, California given in 1845 by Governor Pío Pico to Felipe, an Indian. The name means "good view" in Spanish.
Pictorial maps (also known as illustrated maps, panoramic maps, perspective maps, bird's-eye view maps, and geopictorial maps) depict a given territory with a more artistic rather than technical style. [1] It is a type of map in contrast to road map, atlas, or topographic map.
Reenactors performing a gun salute at the present-day historic site. Today the site of Los Adaes is near the town of Robeline, Louisiana.The Los Adaes site has proven to be one of the most important archaeological sites in the US for the study of colonial Spanish and Adai culture presented by the Adai Caddo Indians of Louisiana.
1859 survey map of the Rancho San Pedro as awarded to Manuel Dominguez For many years, a portion of the Rancho San Pedro land grant was contested between the Domínguez and Sepúlveda families through various appeals to Spanish Governors and lawsuits from 1817–1883 and was eventually partitioned into seventeen parcels in 1882.
This prevented anybody who was not an active involved person in the business of Spain's empire to view the maps. [16] With the printing of Spanish maps not just discouraged, but entirely restricted, there are very few that have survived. Cartography was not at all absent from the Spanish empire. Quite the contrary, they were used as an imperial ...