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Geeking out to old Maps.. | |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 79907445 01/21/2022 02:00 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I like geeking out here for old maps: [link to www.raremaps.com (secure)] |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 81896169  United Kingdom01/21/2022 02:08 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to maps.nls.uk (secure)] This is a good site for old maps, national library Scotland, has loads of maps of Great Britain, right from 1600s! Love a good geek out to old maps lol |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 81578880 Canada01/21/2022 02:11 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to maps.nls.uk (secure)] Quoting: Anonymous Coward 81896169 This is a good site for old maps, national library Scotland, has loads of maps of Great Britain, right from 1600s! Love a good geek out to old maps lol ooh thanks ! Bookmarked for later :) |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 81926926  Sweden01/21/2022 02:15 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Awesome! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 81926926 Thanks, OP  They had a Sun God in Japan, Saraswati or so. Different region but I think also fascinating: I saw one of the eldest maps of Africa once (something with P) It had a giant reptile on it in the South West, coast region. Another map of the land shaped lke a giant reptile head where the muzz refer to as their God. Totally weird stuphs. Welcome, have fun and feel free to share some of what you are looking at. I have gone thru few and am amazed at all the pictures they drew around the map. One was a big face blowing, I am assuming it was demonstrate wind direction.. but who knows.. and some of the fish they drew do not look like any fish I have seen. There's a lot hidden in history. I'm so glad the Tartaria Maps showed up, as it sorta painted in some gaps. I wonder where the Inca's and Maya's fit in. |
| Coming Into Existence
User ID: 16476021 United States01/21/2022 02:16 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Quoting: MonkeyWrangler Tartaria lol |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 81578880 Canada01/21/2022 02:20 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Awesome! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 81926926 Thanks, OP They had a Sun God in Japan, Saraswati or so. Different region but I think also fascinating: I saw one of the eldest maps of Africa once (something with P) It had a giant reptile on it in the South West, coast region. Another map of the land shaped lke a giant reptile head where the muzz refer to as their God. Totally weird stuphs. Welcome, have fun and feel free to share some of what you are looking at. I have gone thru few and am amazed at all the pictures they drew around the map. One was a big face blowing, I am assuming it was demonstrate wind direction.. but who knows.. and some of the fish they drew do not look like any fish I have seen. There's a lot hidden in history. I'm so glad the Tartaria Maps showed up, as it sorta painted in some gaps. I wonder where the Inca's and Maya's fit in. Guess time to get to work :) So many maps so little time..LOL |
| Anubis
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| Deplorable Zenobia
User ID: 81107037 United States01/21/2022 02:40 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation |  for all us map tards!! Thx OP. People LOL at me when I drag home another huge book w/ old maps and such stuff.And thought struggles against the results, trying to avoid those unpleasant results while keeping on with that way of thinking. That is what I call 'sustained incoherence.' ...David Bohm “How, O Zenobia, hast thou dared to insult Roman emperors?” ...Aurelian, 44th Emperor of the Roman Empire |
| Half Past Midnight
User ID: 78659823 United States01/21/2022 02:51 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Thanks MonkeyWrangler. Quoting: Half Past Midnight Matt Marine used to post them on his site but he got sick and his site is disabled. Not sure who that is, but sorry to hear his is sick and his site which I am sure is his passion is disabled. Oh he was a ghost town hunter and author. He had all these trips on his site and he would give the co-ordinates of unknown places and the coordinates where to turn because it was always way far from civilization with no road signs. He would label the trips as easy/walking/hiking, 1 jeep for 2 wheel drive, 2 jeeps for 4 wheel drive & so on. We found a lot of old mines, old ruins of buildings, all kinds of old roads by following his instructions & also veering off on our own. But we're getting old now and those trips, along with the Atlas Gazette for finding old roads that don't exist anymore are pretty much done. |
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| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 81578880 Canada01/21/2022 03:00 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Thanks MonkeyWrangler. Quoting: Half Past Midnight Matt Marine used to post them on his site but he got sick and his site is disabled. Not sure who that is, but sorry to hear his is sick and his site which I am sure is his passion is disabled. Oh he was a ghost town hunter and author. He had all these trips on his site and he would give the co-ordinates of unknown places and the coordinates where to turn because it was always way far from civilization with no road signs. He would label the trips as easy/walking/hiking, 1 jeep for 2 wheel drive, 2 jeeps for 4 wheel drive & so on. We found a lot of old mines, old ruins of buildings, all kinds of old roads by following his instructions & also veering off on our own. But we're getting old now and those trips, along with the Atlas Gazette for finding old roads that don't exist anymore are pretty much done. Go way... damn wish I would have heard about him before... I love exploring places where not many people have been. |
| Rev Woo-Woo
User ID: 78176490 United States01/21/2022 03:02 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Thanks MonkeyWrangler. Quoting: Half Past Midnight Matt Marine used to post them on his site but he got sick and his site is disabled. Not sure who that is, but sorry to hear his is sick and his site which I am sure is his passion is disabled. Oh he was a ghost town hunter and author. He had all these trips on his site and he would give the co-ordinates of unknown places and the coordinates where to turn because it was always way far from civilization with no road signs. He would label the trips as easy/walking/hiking, 1 jeep for 2 wheel drive, 2 jeeps for 4 wheel drive & so on. We found a lot of old mines, old ruins of buildings, all kinds of old roads by following his instructions & also veering off on our own. But we're getting old now and those trips, along with the Atlas Gazette for finding old roads that don't exist anymore are pretty much done. I think it was about 1972 and my mom and I were on a road trip and visiting a friend in Cortez, CO. They took us up a mountain on an old 4 wheel drive only road to a old ghost town. There was still furniture and belongings from long ago left behind. Too cool! “If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.” Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace "But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you; or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you." - Job 12:7,8 "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." - Hunter S. Thompson revstargazer (at) hotmail.com |
| Rev Woo-Woo
User ID: 78176490 United States01/21/2022 03:04 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Thanks MonkeyWrangler. Quoting: Half Past Midnight Matt Marine used to post them on his site but he got sick and his site is disabled. Not sure who that is, but sorry to hear his is sick and his site which I am sure is his passion is disabled. Oh he was a ghost town hunter and author. He had all these trips on his site and he would give the co-ordinates of unknown places and the coordinates where to turn because it was always way far from civilization with no road signs. He would label the trips as easy/walking/hiking, 1 jeep for 2 wheel drive, 2 jeeps for 4 wheel drive & so on. We found a lot of old mines, old ruins of buildings, all kinds of old roads by following his instructions & also veering off on our own. But we're getting old now and those trips, along with the Atlas Gazette for finding old roads that don't exist anymore are pretty much done. Go way... damn wish I would have heard about him before... I love exploring places where not many people have been. I’m obsessed with all the abandoned places exploration videos! Especially castles and old mansions. “If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.” Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace "But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you; or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you." - Job 12:7,8 "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." - Hunter S. Thompson revstargazer (at) hotmail.com |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 81578880 Canada01/21/2022 03:12 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: MonkeyWrangler Not sure who that is, but sorry to hear his is sick and his site which I am sure is his passion is disabled. Oh he was a ghost town hunter and author. He had all these trips on his site and he would give the co-ordinates of unknown places and the coordinates where to turn because it was always way far from civilization with no road signs. He would label the trips as easy/walking/hiking, 1 jeep for 2 wheel drive, 2 jeeps for 4 wheel drive & so on. We found a lot of old mines, old ruins of buildings, all kinds of old roads by following his instructions & also veering off on our own. But we're getting old now and those trips, along with the Atlas Gazette for finding old roads that don't exist anymore are pretty much done. Go way... damn wish I would have heard about him before... I love exploring places where not many people have been. I’m obsessed with all the abandoned places exploration videos! Especially castles and old mansions. Me too.. can't say I have ever been to a castle.. but just love old places... when you look around, you can just imagine their life.. love love love it.. |
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| SmoothSailing
User ID: 81598964 United States01/21/2022 04:55 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear." Marcus Tullius Cicero |
| Let Freedom Ring 365
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| Possum70
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| Anubis
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| Rev Woo-Woo
User ID: 78176490 United States01/21/2022 05:18 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | its perfectly safe, its just maps go to reddit /r/MapPorn/ Sweet!!! “If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.” Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace "But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you; or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you." - Job 12:7,8 "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." - Hunter S. Thompson revstargazer (at) hotmail.com |
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| Anubis
User ID: 81920418 Canada01/21/2022 08:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | here's an example from reddit mapporn Hats and helmets used by Great Powers of Napoleonic Wars https://imgur.com/a/8hQVfSG |
| Anubis
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| Anubis
User ID: 81920418 Canada01/21/2022 08:37 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | moar: Map of the Holy City of Jerusalem from 1100 CE. https://imgur.com/a/yJGIiSkLast Edited by Anubis on 01/21/2022 08:37 PM |
Not sure I am going to google that one..LOL