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  2. Tolkien's maps - Wikipedia

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    In 1969, Tolkien's publisher Allen & Unwin commissioned the illustrator Pauline Baynes to paint a map of Middle-earth. Tolkien supplied her with copies of his draft maps for The Lord of the Rings, and annotated her copy of his son Christopher's 1954 map for The Fellowship of the Ring. Allen & Unwin published Baynes's map as a poster in 1970.

  3. Map projection - Wikipedia

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    Map projection. A medieval depiction of the Ecumene (1482, Johannes Schnitzer, engraver), constructed after the coordinates in Ptolemy's Geography and using his second map projection. In cartography, a map projection is any of a broad set of transformations employed to represent the curved two-dimensional surface of a globe on a plane.

  4. Windows Maps - Wikipedia

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    License. Proprietary freeware. Website. support .microsoft .com /en-us /windows /find-your-way-with-maps-51ece9fb-a0f2-9853-4164-6940865085c8. Windows Maps [2] [1] is a web mapping client software from Microsoft. It is included with Windows 10 and Windows 11 operating systems and is also available for the Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One platforms.

  5. Scale (map) - Wikipedia

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    The scale of a map is the ratio of a distance on the map to the corresponding distance on the ground. This simple concept is complicated by the curvature of the Earth 's surface, which forces scale to vary across a map. Because of this variation, the concept of scale becomes meaningful in two distinct ways.

  6. History of cartography - Wikipedia

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    The history of cartography refers to the development and consequences of cartography, or mapmaking technology, throughout human history. Maps have been one of the most important human inventions for millennia, allowing humans to explain and navigate their way through the world. When and how the earliest maps were made is unclear, but maps of ...

  7. MapQuest - AOL Help

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    MapQuest - AOL Help. AOL APP. News / Email / Weather / Video. GET. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726more ways to reach us. Mail.

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