Amazing Highlights from around the World.

Map No. 1. Countries Known To The Ancients. So Arranged as to Show by the Characters & Colours Used during Which of the Six Epocha's into Which Ancient Time is Divided, Each Century Become Known. Entered according to act of Congress 5th. Day of September 1827 by Oliver D. Cooke & Co. of the State of Connecticut.

Guarda railway station, railway station in Guarda, Switzerland.

Joseph Dessert Library, library building in Mosinee, Wisconsin, United States.

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SaltfjelletSvartisen National Park, national park in Nordland, Norway.

Lincoln's Inn Fields, public square in London, England, UK.

Statue of Sir George Grey, Statue of Sir George Grey in Cape Town.

Punta Borinquen Light, former lighthouse built 1889 in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico.

The Arrogance of Space - Paris, France
GPS: 48.840573378586, 2.3179299126465
Arrogance of Space ratio:
Buildings: 57%
Pedestrians: 3%
Cars: 18%
Publictransport: 22%

Generate your own: The Arrogance of Space - Vaduz, Liechtenstein
GPS: 47.1560782, 9.5097382
Arrogance of Space ratio:
Cars: 21%
Pedestrians: 9%
Buildings: 27%
Cyclists: 3%
Green: 40%

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New Swakopmund Station, Train station in Namibia.

Jervis Public Library, library in Oneida county, N.Y..

National Park of American Samoa, United States national park in American Samoa.

Victoria Park, Belfast, park in Belfast.

MKO Abiola Statue, monumental structure erected in memory of Moshood Abiola.

Map of a portion of the coast of California showing the San Andreas Rift from Point Arena to Fort Ross and the trace of the fault of April 18, 1906. Earthquake Investigation Commission. Julius Bien & Co., N.Y. (Carnegie Institution of Washington. 1908)

Whitefish Point Light, lighthouse in Michigan, United States.

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Bansk Bystrica (Slovakia), 1920
Bask Bystrica
Regional Geography, Buildings, Streets
Graphic, Local Postcards
Monopoly
From Digital Library and Digital Archive of Slovak National Library

Gero Station, railway station in Gero, Gifu prefecture, Japan.

Shanghai Library, public library in Shanghai.

Kawsqar National Park, national park in Chile.

Juan Domingo Pern, monument in Madrid.

Sadaf. ( to accompany) Israel in pictorial maps. Published in 1957.

Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve, park in Bradley Stoke, United Kingdom.

Port Burwell Marine Museum and Historic Lighthouse, lighthouse in Ontario, Canada.

Herby Nowe railway station, railway station in Herby, Poland.

Montrose Library, public library in Angus, Scotland, UK.

Brenan Park, nature reserve in Australia.

Yarriabini National Park, National Park in New South Wales, Australia.

John III Sobieski Monument, bronze statue in Warsaw, Poland.

Eurasia. (Copyright) G.P. Ltd. (inset map and views). Published in 1958.

Eldred Rock Light, lighthouse in Alaska, United States.

MapQuests app surges to No. 1 in Navigation after refusing to rename Lake Ontario

image via techcrunch.com

The OG of online mapping, as the company calls itself, announced on Thursday that it would not change the name of Lake Ontario on its maps to Lake America, despite Trumps executive order directing the U.S. Department of the Interior to update the lakes name in the U.S. geographic naming service. As a result, MapQuests mobile app downloads soared, sending the iOS app to the No. 4 position on the U.S. App Stores Top Charts for apps (not including games) as of Monday morning on the U.S. east coast.

After eight days of near Trento, Italy, here are some thoughts on apps:

There are still reasons to have on your phone. It is very useful when you need to answer questions like: "What restaurants are in the area and are open now" or "How can I use public transportation to get from any given Point A to any given Point B at any given time"

However, when it comes to actually finding hiking paths, - which uses data as a base - simply blows it out of the water. Organic Maps simply has a vastly better data set of footpaths than Google Maps, including really small and obscure ones. Sure, sometimes you get a false positive and come across a path that is not public after all. But that's still vastly better than Google leading you into vast circles to the next throughfares.

Vek Uherce (Slovakia), 1901
Greetings from Nagy-Ugrcz: Thonet Kastly : Vendgl
Regional Geography, Mansions, Inns, National Cultural Monuments
Graphic, Local Postcards, Historical Postcards, Postcards of Cultural Monuments
Kiadja "Elvira" fnyk. mterme
From Digital Library and Digital Archive of Slovak National Library

Vega station, railway station in Haninge Municipality, Sweden.

Brentwood Public Library, public library in Missouri.

Victoria Park, park in Newbury, Berkshire, England.

55. Exacter Grund=riss der Belagerung Douay Published in 1725.

White Desert, natural protectorate north of the el-Farafra depression.