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1 dzień temu · As we have already seen, researchers can use fire insurance maps to find historical street and building numbers, and to find clues to the location of religious and civil records in churches, and government offices. Maps can also be used to explore narratives, and illustrate family histories. Plates 41 and 24, Maps of the city of New York ...
2 dni temu · Models of urban politics. The political history of late medieval towns is a field of research polarised between two outwardly antagonistic schools of thought – the growth of urban oligarchy and the corrective power of urban citizenship – neither of which, in their common engagement with narratives of democratisation, can accommodate and explain the events in Norwich.
4 dni temu · The Global Positioning System ( GPS ), originally Navstar GPS, [2] is a satellite-based radio navigation system owned by the United States government and operated by the United States Space Force. [3] It is one of the global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) that provide geolocation and time information to a GPS receiver anywhere on or near ...
4 dni temu · A comparison between the map of medieval Coventry and a survey of the city made by Samuel Bradford in 17489 demonstrates the persistence of its early lay-out. The presence of the wall was one factor in stabilizing the street plan, limiting as it did any outlets from the town to those provided by the medieval gates.
5 dni temu · These lengths are assumed to be the distances, measured on the spheroid, between the extended lines of gravity down to the spheroid from the ends of the measured lengths on the actual surface of the Earth. The positions of the survey stations on the Earth’s surface are given in spherical coordinates.
2 dni temu · New York City, city and port located at the mouth of the Hudson River, southeastern New York state, considered the most influential American metropolis and the country’s financial and cultural center. New York City comprises five boroughs—Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island.
5 dni temu · One example of a primary source that illuminates the making and crossing of borders, both physical and conceptual, while underscoring the limitations of discrete national histories are maps. While maps help create borders that seem immutable or natural, all borders are social constructs.
