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MapQuest is an American free online web mapping service launched in 1996 as the first commercial web mapping service. It offers various services and programs, such as driving directions, satellite imagery, buddy-finder, customized routes, and gas price comparison.
Kunyu Wanguo Quantu is a 1602 woodcut map by Matteo Ricci and Chinese collaborators, showing China at the center of the known world with the Americas and other continents. It is the first Chinese map with the style of European maps and a valuable source of knowledge and trade for East and West.
Children's list from the GSI (in Japanese) (Translate to English: Google, Bing, Yandex) This is a very good reference, it has separate links for each symbol. Map Symbols (2002) from the GSI (in Japanese) (Translate to English: Google, Bing, Yandex) Map symbols from the Its-mo online map (in Japanese) (Translate to English: Google, Bing, Yandex
Learn about the origins, styles, and purposes of maps in Japan, from ancient times to modern days. Explore the influences of Buddhism, geomancy, and feudalism on map-making, and the challenges of accuracy and orientation.
The Saint-Bélec slab discovered in 1900 by Paul du Châtellier, in Finistère, France, is dated to between 1900 BCE and 1640 BCE.A recent analysis, published in the Bulletin of the French Prehistoric Society, has shown that the slab is a three-dimensional representation of the River Odet valley in Finistère, France.
MapQuest offers online, mobile, business and developer solutions that help people discover and explore where they would like to go, how to get there and what to do along the way and at your destination.
Classical Japanese is the literary form of the Japanese language that was the standard until the early Shōwa period. It is based on Early Middle Japanese, the language as spoken during the Heian period, but exhibits some later influences. It is written in old character forms and historical kana usage.
Learn about the famous map by Gerardus Mercator, a pioneer of the Mercator projection, which was based on contemporary geography and navigation charts. See images, legends, and sources of the four extant copies of the map.