In Nov 2017 the David Rumsey Map Collection at Stanford University obtained 1 of alone 2 manuscript copies of Urbano Monte's Planisphere. This huge map is 1 of the earliest large consummate maps of the world.
The master copy manuscript map is inwards the degree of a threescore sail atlas. Urbano Monte intended for the sheets to last joined together to exercise 1 real large 10 pes map. The David Rumsey Map Collection has achieved that destination yesteryear digitizing all threescore sheets too creating a digital interactive map of Urbano Monte's Planisphere.
Monte himself suggested that a key pin last added to the midpoint of the map too thence that users could rotate the map spell exploring the atlas. The digital interactive version of the map does include a rotation button, which hateful yous tin forcefulness out spin the map closed to its key pivot, equally Urbano Monte intended.
Urbano Monte's Planisphere uses a due north polar azimuthal projection. This projection places the North Pole at the midpoint of the map. Modern users, to a greater extent than accustomed to Google Maps, are used to due north existence at the transcend of the map too mightiness cope amongst this projection. Luckily for them Visionscarto has used the map tiles from the David Rumsey interactive map to exercise a tool for viewing Urbano Monte's Planisphere using dissimilar map projections.
Urbano Monte World Map Reprojections. includes 21 dissimilar map projections. It fifty-fifty includes everyone's favorite Mercator projection, which agency yous tin forcefulness out brand straight comparisons amongst Google Maps if yous too thence wish.
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