Looking for good physical map of the world

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Paul Ciszek - 04 May 2006 18:47 GMT

I once owned a good physical map of the world. It showed both
the land and the seafloor in relief, and did not make that great
a distinction between the two; i.e., it was perfect for seeing
what the land would have looked like when the sea level was
lower. As I recall, the political information on the map was
minimal, and may have been limited to place names. I don't recall
the exact projection, but it think it was some compromise that
tried to keep both area and shape distortion under control.

This map did not make it through one of my several moves.
I would like to find a replacement.

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Charly Coughran - 04 May 2006 19:13 GMT

nospam@nospam.com (Paul Ciszek) wrote in news:e3deo5$gnl$1
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> I once owned a good physical map of the world. It showed both
> the land and the seafloor in relief, and did not make that great
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> This map did not make it through one of my several moves.
> I would like to find a replacement.

Try the National Geographic Physical World Map

http://www.maps.com/map.aspx?cid=22&pid=11069&nav=MS

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Weatherlawyer - 09 May 2006 10:34 GMT

> nospam@nospam.com (Paul Ciszek) wrote in news:e3deo5$gnl$1
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> http://www.maps.com/map.aspx?cid=22&pid=11069&nav=MS

Excellent site but you could also check out second hand bookshops. I
have the NG cd wallet of these maps but never use them. I aught to take
a look at them. I can't seem to get on with the Nasa or Google online
globes at all.

Damn, I just looked at them and they are for Win 95 and 98. I boiled my
old PC last Saturday.

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After a trip down memory lane:
Install minimum 10 MHz or Enhanced 14 MHZ decisions decisions. Good job
I don't have a minimum PC spec of 66 MHz 486. And I think I had to
install QuickTime 3.

I wonder if the phrase Go to Help has been changed in the later
versions :~)

Seeing these things online is just no comparison for the real thing.
You can't get the same out of a monitor as you can out of hard copy. Or
am I set in my ways and too old fashioned?

Or was it just the early computing format? Something put me off them
and I don't recommend you pay much for a copy on disk. Perhaps that's
what I don't like about the other stuff?

With a paper map you can own the world. With a digital one you have to
be lead by the hand all the damned time.

Thinking about it I have two globes too andthey don't give me the same
feel or feed back of a proper map. But they do offer so much more for
practical geospatial stuff.

Compromise is everywhere is it not? I want a globe with less political
geography on it. Something like the UN got when the Russian empire
dissolved.

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Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Oceanography / May 2006

Looking for good physical map of the world