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A map of the Trans-African Highway network. A road map, route map, or street map is a map that primarily displays roads and transport links rather than natural geographical information. It is a type of navigational map that commonly includes political boundaries and labels, making it also a type of political map.
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1838 map of pre-railroad cargo traffic in Ireland, one of the first thematic maps to use proportional symbols. The earliest known map to visually represent the volume of flow were two maps by engineer Henry Drury Harness, published in 1838 as part of a report on the potential for railroad construction in Ireland, showing the quantity of cargo traffic by road and canal.
Cara Fitzpatrick is an American journalist. ... Life. She graduated from University of Washington, and the Columbia University School of Journalism.
Exile media and pro-democracy groups were critical of the road map, for its lack of set deadlines or time frames. [1] The Myanmar Times claimed that the roadmap represented progress and hope for the eventual democratisation of the country. [4] UN envoy to Burma, Ibrahim Gambari pressed for a more "credible and inclusive" roadmap in 2008. [5]
The Jakarta Outer Ring Road (Indonesian: Jalan Tol Lingkar Luar Jakarta, abbreviated JORR) is a tolled ring road encircling Jakarta, Indonesia. It is divided into 7 sections, totalling up to 65 kilometres (40 mi). [ 1 ]
The Great Post Road (Indonesian: Jalan Raya Pos, Dutch: De Grote Postweg [1]) is the name for the historical road that runs across Java and connects Anyer with Panarukan. It was built during the administration of Herman Willem Daendels (1808–1811), governor-general of the Dutch East Indies , using unpaid forced labour that cost thousands of ...
The Road of Life (Russian: Доро́га жи́зни, romanized: doroga zhizni) was the set of ice road transport routes across Lake Ladoga to Leningrad during the Second World War. They were the only Soviet winter surface routes into the city while it was besieged by the German Army Group North under Feldmarschall Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb .