India's lighthouses reach more than 1,300 km out to sea, from the peninsula out to the Lakshadweep atolls and the Andaman & Nicobar Islands. Every point is a real navigational light on its charted character.

#lighthouses #India #maps
Data: OpenSeaMap + NGA List of Lights

This #scarce #LocalHistory of the first 200 years of #Wareham, #Massachusetts was published in 1989 on the occasion of its 250th anniversary. #Illustrated with #B&W #photos and #maps. $65. #Booksky #SocialHistory #NewEngland

Great work by our Practical Mariner project team! #maps #maritime #archaeology

Where is Costa Rica 🇨🇷?

#CostaRica
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#PlacesOfWorship
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#Maps #Cartography #Geography #OneWorld
3/6

ER DETTE GALGEBERG??? år 1700

#norway #maps #cartography #mapsOfNorway

også ganske fint med alle disse byggematerialene i 1700 #norway #maps #cartography #mapsOfNorway

apropos nesten ingenting:

Bærum anno 1825

#norway #maps #cartography #mapsOfNorway

Boston, redrawn so distance is drive time: the streets swell as the roads clog. Harvard Square to Logan runs about 14 min before dawn, 21 in the evening crush. Method: Jeremy Vonderfecht. Streets: OpenStreetMap. #boston #maps #dataviz

Map Men with a fantastic video about languages. Bringing awareness to things happening outside of our own local environments.
Love these guys.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX21ctsGhNc

#Languages #Maps

It only takes 2 minutes to create a professional-looking interactive map with animations in our new Editor.
#dataviz #maps #travel

Try it yourself:
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Dewitt C. Richardson (1818-1892)
Lyon Township, Oakland County Michigan.

I couldn't find any info on Leroy Richardson.

#historic #maps c.1857, 1872, 1896, & 1908

#Canada #America #tariffs #maps #trade #economics

'Our tools illustrate the highly localized and uneven potential impacts of U.S. tariffs reflecting Canada’s underlying urban, regional and sectoral specializations.'

mappingtariffs.org

How much of New England is actually mountains? Half of it sits below 681 feet. The commonest ground is the coast; the Whites and the Greens are that thin sliver at the top. #NewEngland #geography #elevation #maps

Between December 1979 to April 2024, there were 43,583 Islamist terrorist attacks, illustrated in this animation. (Data: Fondapol, UCDP).

#Terrorism #Islamism #Infographic #Maps #Geopolitics

Alliances should never be taken lightly. It’s not cheap to maintain an overseas presence the way the United States does in South Korea, but the cost of prevention should never be examined in isolation.

#security #maps #alliances

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Where is Kuwait 🇰🇼?

#Kuwait
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3/6

Typical peak foliage: northern Maine around Oct 5, Connecticut and Rhode Island around Oct 21. Timing from 25 years of NASA MODIS phenology, checked against USA National Phenology Network observations; color from USDA Forest Service tree species maps. #fallfoliage #NewEngland #maps

Where is the Netherlands 🇳🇱?

#Netherlands
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3/6

Saint Petersburg wasn't built on an empty swamp. This was Swedish Ingria; a town called Nyen stood at the mouth of the Neva until Peter the Great took it in 1703. Every building on the map dates from after that.
Data: how-old-is-this.house (ODbL)
#dataviz #maps #SaintPetersburg

📰 Apple links landmarks on its Maps app to Hidden Histories podcast episodes

Apple has added podcast guides for select US landmarks within Maps, discussing their histories and lesser-known stories.

Source: Engadget | Read story

💬 How do you see this impacting users?

#TechBluesky #Apple #Maps