Let's Do Africa-- Map Helps Please

Subject: RE: Let's Do Africa-- Map Helps Please
From: Bill D
Date: 26 Dec 09 - 01:53 PM

translate.google.com says: "in cooperation with our Mapmaniac Werner Lenz, we are just about to calibrate the following sets of maps in ECW format. "

ECW (Enhanced Compression Wavelet) is a proprietary wavelet compression image format optimized for aerial and satellite imagery. It was developed by Earth Resource Mapping, and is now owned by Leica Geosystems[1]. The lossy compression format efficiently compresses very large images with fine alternating contrast.

Subject: RE: Let's Do Africa-- Map Helps Please
From: wysiwyg
Date: 03 Jan 10 - 03:06 PM

Thanks, Bill.

Eb, thanks-- no.

Here's a fine one I found in one late-night grab-session: http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.lexvold.com/resources/africa/Africaatlas.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.lexvold.com/resources.html&usg=__h9xLxDtOF-HEJZN79cpQJbcEhwk=&h=706&w=545&sz=139&hl=en&start=1&um=1&tbnid=pJWbgubb4Qc5yM:&tbnh=140&tbnw=108&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dafricaatlas.gif%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1

I like that it gives me several all on page--easy to print and laminate. Yes, I know I can toss several maps onto a single page-- this one happened to already have much of what I wanted and anything that saves me steps-- saves me eyestrain.


NOW I am on a flatpanel monitor, with good resolution, that's already let me spend one whole night coasting thru Google images. Talk about eye candy!

I'll still appreciate any help offered, but I think I got most of what I needed and now that the computer attached to the good monitor is finally online---- Ahhhhhhhhhh {happy sigh].

~Susan

Subject: RE: Let's Do Africa-- Map Helps Please
From: GUEST,KP
Date: 04 Jan 10 - 07:39 AM

This book is just what you need - sorry I didn't spot this thread earlier!
KP
Penguin Atlas of African History

Subject: RE: Let's Do Africa-- Map Helps Please
From: wysiwyg
Date: 04 Jan 10 - 08:38 AM

Thanks!

When I spent that eye-candy night, I noticed that all the colored maps' bands were installing themselves in my memory and my brain was spontaneously starting to try to correlate them. There was one really intriguingly shaped "puzzle piece" that did NOT correlate with any others I saw. That ONE is really bugging me, but the subject matter it mapped was troubling in itself. I hesitate to mention it here because I know that as soon as I do, I will unleash a stream of reactivity into this thread.

If anyone can help on that, please PM for private handling of the subject, with email for a large photo attachment.

~Susan