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A better view from above.
A good friend pointed me in the direction of an exciting cartography resource which is now online. OSI (Ordnance Survey Ireland) has just introduced a new service called Smart Maps where you can view detailed maps of the whole of Ireland. Zoom in and you get aerial photos. The great thing about this is we [...]
Published by itison on January 22nd, 2008 tagged environment, geography, links | Comment now »
Lost Atlantis and Mathematics
“Atlantis from a Geographer’s Perspective: Mapping the Fairy Land” is a book by Ulf Erlingsson. I’ve not read it but I have studied the research on his website Atlantis in Ireland. It is concise and offers interesting theories on the roots of civilisation prior to ancient Greece and Egypt. We know that the megalithic sites [...]