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Are there good maps on Internet?
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2013 Jan 8, 17:53 -0500
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2013 Jan 8, 17:53 -0500
I already asked this question, but this was in the middle of a technical conversation with Bill Morris on details of his Lunar spreadsheet, so now I want to address it to a broader audience of Nav List readers. Do there exist good maps on Internet? Let me try to explain what I need. I am reading various books on old exploration travels, like Baffin, Barentz, Cook or Vancouver. I need a good map to refer to. I mean a map which would have islands, capes, rivers, straits, bays, montains etc. and other geographical features, with their names. And mostly of uninhabited places, like Canadian Arctic islands. I was unable to locate on the Internet anything better than my wall World map. I understand that I can buy navigational charts at $40 a piece. But it is hard for me to believe that some such maps are not freely available on Internet. Google maps gives only a contour map (only sore line, no features, no names) for uninhabited areas. On the other hand, excellent maps of the sky are available:-)
