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Maps of Asia from 1916

Plasing deur apm-wa op 16 Desember 2019 in English. Laas opgedateer op 17 Desember 2019.

Here are a couple more maps from the geography textbook, now uploaded to Wikipedia, this time of Asia as seen in 1916:

Asia political map, 1916

Asia physical map, 1916

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Kommentaar van imagico op 17 Desember 2019 om 00:22

Quite remarkable color quality for a reproduction more than 100 years old.

Interesting fact - these maps were produced before the discovery of Severnaya Zemlya - which was not fully charted until the 1930s and which therefore is not included.

Kommentaar van alexkemp op 17 Desember 2019 om 00:37

Your Europe & Asia maps are broken. This is the error message for one of them (HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found, reported by https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/31/1916-Asia-political-map.jpg):

File not found: /v1/AUTH_mw/wikipedia-en-local-public.31/3/31/1916-Asia-political-map.jpg

Is it asking for authorisation? It is UPLOAD.wikimedia, after all.

Kommentaar van apm-wa op 17 Desember 2019 om 00:50

@alexkemp, thanks for the heads up, apparently Wikipedia changes URLs after uploads for some reason. I have corrected them all. Sorry about that!

Kommentaar van apm-wa op 17 Desember 2019 om 00:52

@imagico, I scanned at 1200 dpi on a cheap Epson all-in-one scanner-printer-copier, and downsampled to 400dpi for these versions. Other than straightening the images there was no other editing–the images in the book are really sweet, I have to say!

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