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1)
PORTUGAL: PHOTOS AND MAPS
Henri the Navigator,
Ferdinand
Magellan, boats, bridges and sea, there is now a Portugal
chapter in
Europe Photo. Moreover, as a member Euratlas-Info, you can download a printable
map
of Portugal, blank
or labeled, in color or grey
shades, in English or
French. This map is adapted for school tests and shows the districts of
the country, the main rivers and mountain ranges.
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2) GEOREFERENCED HISTORICAL VECTOR
DATA
Now the Euratlas Georeferenced Historical Vector
Data licences are ready for 21 centuries. Let us recall these
historical databases include the shapes, long form names, short form
names,
political status and dependencies - i. e. owner and holder entities -
of all the known European
countries for each century from year 1 until year
2000. Moreover, all
the known first and second level administrative divisions are
provided and the databases include also nearly 3000 places and towns,
with their importance degree and local name of the time, to help
location. These data allow you to modify and organize spatially your
own map and are particularly adapted for:
- historical,
archeological or cultural researches,
- creation of exhibition
or museum wall maps,
- textbooks or national historical maps,
- educational or strategy games.
In the Euratlas Shop, you will find for each century
a .zip archive containing a sample
file, and a link towards the bibliography
and, on the same page,
a small summary map.
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3) PROGRESS OF THE NEW PERIODICAL ATLAS OF EUROPE
The new versions of the Periodical Historical Atlas of
Europe are
still in progress. The new Expert version will be a dedicated program
with excellent zoom and powerful search options and several display
choices. It will be possible to create customized maps by choosing
which information to display or not: countries, rivers, mountains,
provinces, cities, short names, long names, political dependencies etc.
The new Basic version will be a simple .pdf document with
high resolution maps, 10 000 pixels wide. Here you can download a
slightly reduced map from this version: the map of the Balkans and
Western
Anatolia in year 1300, just before the Almogavar campaign, with the
Turkish beyliks and the Latin states in Greece.
Of course, all existing customers of an Expert or Basic
version will benefit of an upgrade price for the new equivalent
version.
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4)
PHYSICAL MAP OF EUROPE
2009
A new version of the Physical map
of Europe is available now for
Corel Draw and Illustrator users. In addition to the 200 m., 500 m.
1000 m., 2000 m. and 3500 m. contour lines and to the rivers and to
2600
populated places, you will find in it the shapes of the European
countries with their borders of 2009.
The vector files are provided in
24 layers but Corel Draw users need only 18 layers as the towns names
and the long and short form names of the countries are available as
ObjectData. Moreover, the first level administrative divisions
(regions, states or communities) are given for the United Kingdom, for
France, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Italy and Greece.
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5) ANTIQUE MAPS
The map of the Carolingian
Empire in 814 from the Victor Duruy
Atlas historique de la France, the map of Italy
about the 5th century
B.C. from the Drioux & Leroy Atlas universel de
Géographie
and a World
map of 1808 from the Atlas historique et
géographique by Las Cases alias Lesage can be downloaded in high
resolution by all Euratlas-Info subscribers.
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6) EURATLAS-INFO & EURATLAS SHOP
Documents and products mentioned above are in
the new Euratlas-Info and Euratlas Shop pages. These pages have
been revised to become more ergonomic and are now easier to
navigate.
Euratlas-Info has 7 sections:
- Europe
Maps: blank or labeled printable maps of Europe,
- Countries
of Europe: blank or labeled printable maps of European countries,
- World
Maps: blank or labeled printable world maps,
- History
Maps: vector or raster Euratlas history maps,
- Antique
Maps: digitized old maps and prints,
- Pictures
of Europe: high resolution photos from the Europe Photo branch,
- Back
Issues: all previous issues of the present newsletter from nr 11.
As Euratlas-Info members, you can freely download all the maps and
pictures listed above.
In addition, the Euratlas Shop has 4 sections:
- Historical
Atlases: Mitteleuropatlas,
Germany
1789, Hisatlas
etc.
- Antique
Maps: various digitized antique maps or atlases
- Vector
Maps: Georeferenced Vector Data and Map of Europe 2009
- References:
links towards third parties references books
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We are
still
progressing in the process of creation and translation of the new
versions, Expert and Basic, of the Periodical Historical Atlas of
Europe and we hope that the new basic version will be available in June. Feel free
to ask us any further
question.
We wish you a nice spring
Euratlas - C.
Nüssli, March 2009
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