Antique New York State Maps

• From the David Rumsey Collection
• Fully Interactive (pan, zoom, etc.)

Map Of The State Of New York With the Latest Improvements (1845)

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Note the side panel illustrations of Mountains and Rivers

• Ballston Lake = Long Lake 
• Lake George Village = Caldwell

Engineers Map of The State Of New York (1864)

Showing State Division into "agricultural Groups"

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• Outline color by agricultural group. 
• Shows canals, railroads in operation, in progress, and proposed.
• Note clear views of the railroads

1879 - New York Wilderness And The Adirondacks

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• Great Detail
• Even many hotels are listed!

New York State - 1895

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Where angry waters roll (1936 US Flood Map)

Where angry waters roll (1936 US Flood Map)

Fascinating data visualization of flood prone areas across the United States from the David Rumsey Collection 

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The Tallest Lifeforms (Video)

These are screenshots from a wonderful video: "The Tallest Lifeforms Of All Time". Great use of analytic visual comparisons...

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How Earth Would Look If All The Ice Melted

There's a very powerful video on YouTube illustrating
"How Earth Would Look If All The Ice Melted"

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Highly recommended! - Below are a few screenshots...

India and Bangladesh

The west coast of Africa

China

U.S.A. Southeast

Australia

1884 map - illustrating Land Grants to Railroads

 Wow!

 From the David Rumsey Map Collection 

Publisher: Rand, McNally & Co.

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What's the Golden Rule and the Green Rule?

 What's the Golden Rule?

The Golden Rule is the principle of treating others as one wants to be treated. It is a maxim that is found in most religions and cultures

The Golden Rule is the principle of treating others as one wants to be treated. It is a maxim that is found in most religions and cultures

The idea dates at least to the early Confucian times (551–479 BCE), appearing prominently in Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Taoism, Zoroastrianism, and "the rest of the world's major religions".

What's the Green Rule?

The Green Rule is derived from the classic Golden Rule found in major faith traditions, paraphrasing it by saying: "Do unto the Earth as you would have it do unto you."

Selected from many of the world’s great religious texts and spiritual teachings, the Green Rules were chosen to demonstrate that each religion and spiritual philosophy has a long-standing tradition of ecological stewardship...

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Religions

Animated map showing how religion spread around the world

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(YouTube  / Business Insider)

Mapping Deforestation

Mapped: 30 Years of Deforestation and Forest Growth, by Country

Today, forests make up around 31% of the Earth’s total land area, spanning 15.68 million square miles (40.6 million km²). Over the past three decades, the world lost a bit more than 4% (685,300 square miles) of its forests, which equates to an area about half the size of India.

Europe and Asia were the only two regions which had significant overall forest growth during this time period, while Oceania saw no significant change and North and Central America saw a slight reduction.

Africa along with South America and the Caribbean were the regions with the greatest amount of deforestation, both losing more than 15% of their forests over the past 30 years. 

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