Maps

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How to download Google Maps (Android Police)

Google Maps makes it easy to navigate no matter where you're located. You can also download maps to use when you don't have an internet connection.

If you have a phone with microSD expansion, Google allows you to save offline maps to your expandable storage. Offline maps can act as a safety net when you want to explore without the risk of getting lost in a dangerous place. This applies to maps you manually download and automatic updates.2 Images - Enter the name you want to use for your offline map. If you don't update them or enable the automatic update feature, you won't have access to your offline maps after a year. While on the Offline maps settings page, follow these steps: To enable automatic updates, navigate to the Offline maps page and take these steps: Offline maps need to stay updated. Plus, you can download as many offline maps as your storage allows. If the selection rectangle shrinks when you pinch to zoom out, download as much as possible and repeat the process to download additional maps. Unless your internal storage is limited, you might be better off leaving offline maps on your internal storage. [Chromebook](https://www.androidpolice.com/best-chromebooks/), you can download Google Maps through the app to make sure you don't get lost when navigating through the boonies where the signal is sparse.

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Conservation of Spanish Armada invasion maps reveals red ink ... (Art Newspaper)

Analysis of 16th-century, hand-drawn maps finds that the reds pigments were only available from the late 19th century.

The maps are generally in good condition, though one has traces of repaired mould and water damage after a flood in the 1960s at their former home at Hever Castle in Kent. Last year, the maps were sold by the Astor estate but the government barred their export to a US collector because of their heritage value. The map's convincingly antique, delicate shades of red were added either for an auction or by the book dealer who bought them and sold them on at a handsome profit to the Astor family.

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What's better than maps or stamps? Maps on stamps! (Big Think)

The magic happens when they overlap — maps on stamps! Welcome to the fascinating, endangered world of cartophilately.

[no, not the DR Congo](https://www.thoughtco.com/why-two-congos-in-africa-3555011) — and Venezuela put out stamps that celebrated the flags of their continental neighbors, a veritable flag buffet, so to speak. Specifically, it lost its access to the coast to Chile (stamp 2) and the largest part of the Chaco region to Paraguay (stamp 3). On stamps issued by Israel’s hostile neighbors, the same shape becomes a reminder of the Palestinian plight; on the Djiboutian stamp, the shape is represented by the kheffiyeh, the region’s traditional male headdress. The maps on these stamps don’t covet their neighbor’s land. These maps also do political work, but in a slightly more subtle way: by enlarging the country of issue. The term comes from Italia Irredenta (“Unredeemed Italy”), which is what Italian nationalists in the late 19th century called parts of their neighboring countries. Well, it happens to entire countries as well — so much so that they feel it is necessary to point out where exactly they are on the map. New Zealand has chosen proximity over hospitability and claims a slice of the white continent they call Ross Land, due south of New Zealand itself. These teach you that in 2018, Bangladesh graduated from “least developed” to “developing” country; which route the British explorer Shackleton took on his “Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition” (1914-17); the four occupation zones into which Berlin was divided after World War II; where coffee is mainly produced (in red) and where it is mainly consumed (in green); how far it is by air from Miami to the capital of the Dominican Republic (340 miles); which part of France was first liberated from the Nazis (Corsica, not Normandy!); how small the Swiss confederation was when it began in 1291; and where Nowruz (a.k.a. Before it joins the dodo, here are some highlights from [Gilad’s Maps on Stamps](https://mapsonstampsdb.com/), a database containing more than 17,500 individual examples from across the world, dating mostly from the 20th century. These stamps depict four of those claims by Argentina, Chile, the UK, and New Zealand. In 1966, France celebrated the centenary of the Paris pneumatic post.

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