Venezuela explained in 10 maps and charts
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/28/venezuela-explained-in-10-maps-and-charts
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#map The oldest map ever drawn, dating back to 9,000 years and discovered in Jordan. The ‘Jibal al-Khashabiyeh engraved stone’ depicts a ‘desert kite’, a hunting device used in the Middle East during the Neolithic. The maps was drawn on a 92 kg limestone block nearly 80 cm high using a stone tool. The block was recovered in 2015, and the results of the analyses were published in 2023 in the journal PLOS ONE
Original article: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0277927
An aerial view of the desert kit represented in the monolith map. It shows a vast enclosure and, on the periphery, the small pits of the kite. The landscape is monochromatic, dominated by shades of light brown, tan, and beige, when the ground texture is rough and uneven, scattered with small rocks, gravel, and scrub. A graphical scale bar is visible in the bottom left corner, marking increments of 0, 50, and 100 meters.
A 3D model of the monolith engraved with the oldest map ever drawn. 4 four different columns represent different angles of the monolith. An interpretative sketch, mainly visible in the 2nd centre left column, has been drawn by researchers. It’s a complex geometric shape representing a ‘desert kite’, structured as a corridor (at the bottom of the monolith) leading up to a large enclosure that opens onto several pits (small round shapes in the drawing). The 3D model is represented in a stippled (dot-based) shading technique, emulating the rough texture of the stone in greyscale, while the interpretative sketch is highlighted with black outlines.
A photograph of the monolith engraved with the oldest map ever drawn. It’s a substantial rectangular pillar with a weathered, porous surface characteristic of limestone, and it's standing upright in an arid, desert landscape. A red and white metric scale ruler is positioned alongside for size reference.
#map The oldest map ever drawn, dating back to 9,000 years and discovered in Jordan. The ‘Jibal al-Khashabiyeh engraved stone’ depicts a ‘desert kite’, a hunting device used in the Middle East during the Neolithic. The maps was drawn on a 92 kg limestone block nearly 80 cm high using a stone tool. The block was recovered in 2015, and the results of the analyses were published in 2023 in the journal PLOS ONE
Original article: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0277927
An aerial view of the desert kit represented in the monolith map. It shows a vast enclosure and, on the periphery, the small pits of the kite. The landscape is monochromatic, dominated by shades of light brown, tan, and beige, when the ground texture is rough and uneven, scattered with small rocks, gravel, and scrub. A graphical scale bar is visible in the bottom left corner, marking increments of 0, 50, and 100 meters.
A 3D model of the monolith engraved with the oldest map ever drawn. 4 four different columns represent different angles of the monolith. An interpretative sketch, mainly visible in the 2nd centre left column, has been drawn by researchers. It’s a complex geometric shape representing a ‘desert kite’, structured as a corridor (at the bottom of the monolith) leading up to a large enclosure that opens onto several pits (small round shapes in the drawing). The 3D model is represented in a stippled (dot-based) shading technique, emulating the rough texture of the stone in greyscale, while the interpretative sketch is highlighted with black outlines.
A photograph of the monolith engraved with the oldest map ever drawn. It’s a substantial rectangular pillar with a weathered, porous surface characteristic of limestone, and it's standing upright in an arid, desert landscape. A red and white metric scale ruler is positioned alongside for size reference.
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Today in Labor History December 9, 1842: The Anarchist formerly known as Prince, Peter Kropotkin, was born on this date in Moscow. Kropotkin was a geographer and anarcho-communist. His most well-known works include “Conquest of Bread,” “Fields, Factories,” and “Mutual Aid, A Factor of Evolution,” which explores the role of mutually-beneficial cooperation and reciprocity (i.e., mutual aid) in the animal kingdom and human societies both past and present. It was an argument against the theory of social Darwinism, popular at the time, that argued that existing social relations were the natural consequence of rich people’s inherent genetic superiority over the poor. Kropotkin argued that because mutual aid has pragmatic advantages for the survival of human and animal communities, it has proliferated through natural selection. In 1874, Kropotkin was arrested and imprisoned in the Peter and Paul Fortress for subversive political activity. In 1876, he escaped and fled to Switzerland. During his younger days, he served as a geographer for the Russian empire. In 1873, he published a scientific paper showing that the existing maps entirely misrepresented the physical features of Asia.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #kropotkin #russia #prison #geography #MutualAid #Revolution #books #writer #author @bookstadon
Today in Labor History December 9, 1842: The Anarchist formerly known as Prince, Peter Kropotkin, was born on this date in Moscow. Kropotkin was a geographer and anarcho-communist. His most well-known works include “Conquest of Bread,” “Fields, Factories,” and “Mutual Aid, A Factor of Evolution,” which explores the role of mutually-beneficial cooperation and reciprocity (i.e., mutual aid) in the animal kingdom and human societies both past and present. It was an argument against the theory of social Darwinism, popular at the time, that argued that existing social relations were the natural consequence of rich people’s inherent genetic superiority over the poor. Kropotkin argued that because mutual aid has pragmatic advantages for the survival of human and animal communities, it has proliferated through natural selection. In 1874, Kropotkin was arrested and imprisoned in the Peter and Paul Fortress for subversive political activity. In 1876, he escaped and fled to Switzerland. During his younger days, he served as a geographer for the Russian empire. In 1873, he published a scientific paper showing that the existing maps entirely misrepresented the physical features of Asia.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #kropotkin #russia #prison #geography #MutualAid #Revolution #books #writer #author @bookstadon
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With AlpsWatch, Tyrolean experts present a digital tool that makes alpine hazards visible and thus provides crucial support to mountaineers and communities.
#alpswatch #naturalhazards #earthobservation #citizenscience #geography @uniinnsbruck
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What does summer feel like where you live? Hot or cool? Rainy or dry? For the #30daymapchallenge Day 25 prompt "Hexagons", I mapped summer climates across North America. I averaged the 1991-2020 climate normals for mean summer temperature and total summer precipitation within 50,000 square kilometer hexagons using data from ClimateNA.
What does summer feel like where you live? Hot or cool? Rainy or dry? For the #30daymapchallenge Day 25 prompt "Hexagons", I mapped summer climates across North America. I averaged the 1991-2020 climate normals for mean summer temperature and total summer precipitation within 50,000 square kilometer hexagons using data from ClimateNA.
With AlpsWatch, Tyrolean experts present a digital tool that makes alpine hazards visible and thus provides crucial support to mountaineers and communities.
#alpswatch #naturalhazards #earthobservation #citizenscience #geography @uniinnsbruck
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If, like me, you enjoy looking at maps but are not well up in cartography, you will find the Royal Geographical Society's "Theatre of the World" an enjoyable and instructive guide to the history of the printed atlas.
#Geography #Atlas #Maps #Cartography #Books #RoyalGeographicalSociety #History
If, like me, you enjoy looking at maps but are not well up in cartography, you will find the Royal Geographical Society's "Theatre of the World" an enjoyable and instructive guide to the history of the printed atlas.
#Geography #Atlas #Maps #Cartography #Books #RoyalGeographicalSociety #History
An official atlas of North Korea
https://www.cartographerstale.com/p/an-official-atlas-of-north-korea
#HackerNews #NorthKorea #Atlas #Cartography #Geography #News #Exploration
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Digital Elevation Models, Old Maps, And Cultural Heritage—Geospatial Assets For The Digital Humanities
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https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2025.1507385 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #water #hydrography #remotesensing #earthobservation #landscape #humanimpacts #landforms #DEM #elevation #LiDAR #oldmaps #historicmaps #culture #society #infrastructure #community #change #DigitalHumanities #geography #cartography #environment #culturalheritage #Nederlands #LingeRiver #engineering #precisionmapping #understanding #history
Digital Elevation Models, Old Maps, And Cultural Heritage—Geospatial Assets For The Digital Humanities
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https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2025.1507385 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #water #hydrography #remotesensing #earthobservation #landscape #humanimpacts #landforms #DEM #elevation #LiDAR #oldmaps #historicmaps #culture #society #infrastructure #community #change #DigitalHumanities #geography #cartography #environment #culturalheritage #Nederlands #LingeRiver #engineering #precisionmapping #understanding #history
Comparing the Latitude of Europe and America
https://vividmaps.com/comparing-latitude-of-europe-and-america/
#HackerNews #ComparingLatitude #Europe #America #Geography #Maps
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En.osm.town is an independent Mastodon server for OpenStreetMap people. Funding graciously provided by the OpenStreetMap Foundation.
This server has been online since 2018.
You can find out more at https://en.osm.town/about or contact the admin account @compass
#FeaturedServer #OpenStreetMap #OSM #Maps #Mapping #Cartography #GIS #Geospatial #Geography #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
En.osm.town is an independent Mastodon server for OpenStreetMap people. Funding graciously provided by the OpenStreetMap Foundation.
This server has been online since 2018.
You can find out more at https://en.osm.town/about or contact the admin account @compass
#FeaturedServer #OpenStreetMap #OSM #Maps #Mapping #Cartography #GIS #Geospatial #Geography #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
As I was cleaning up my GitHub repos and migrating what I can to Codeberg, I ran across this long forgotten gem - a colleciton of U.S. state information - flags, photos, seals, twitter and facebook accounts, all kinds of things.
Sadly it was abandoned 8 years ago, but much of the content is still relevant. I keep hoping it will get picked up again by someone - hint hint.
Tanguy Fardet
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Time for an #introduction 👋
My name is Morten, I'm PhD student at the #Geography department at Uppsala Uni. Currently writing on the topic of #Segregation in relation to #tenureMix and #socialMix
My background is within #housingStudies and #urbanStudies
Interests: #rstats #quantitativeMethods #gis #mixedMethods and all things #neighborhood #academia