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Cheats guide to making simple outline maps in Photoshop - Red Dice Diaries Please note: There are some excellent and very professional cartographers out there producing great maps for games, this article is not designed to create a map to compete with them, it is for someone who wants to quickly put together a simple map that they can use during a RP campaign with minimal struggle. Producing professional looking campaign maps can be very tricky, takes a lot of practice and time, however, if you’re just looking for a quick map that will enable you to get playing your game quickly then this guide should help you. This article assumes you have access to Photoshop and basic ability to use it (although the principles should be transferable to other graphic programs like GIMP). Open a new screen Start up your graphics program and open a new image.

Ming Qing Women's Writings Recent decades have witnessed strong interest in Chinese women's literature, history, and culture of the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) periods among scholars, researchers, and students in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, North America, Europe, and elsewhere in the world. Chinese women's writings constitute a significant resource for ground-breaking research. They have opened up critical perspectives and enriched our knowledge of many aspects of Chinese culture and society. Close to 5000 collections of poetry and other writings by individual women are recorded for the Ming and Qing periods. However, less than a quarter of these materials have survived the ravages of history, and these have mostly ended up in rare book archives in libraries in China that are difficult to access.

China Biographical Database Project (CBDB) Social network analysis (SNA) provides an alternative to the factor-based approach in L. Stone's discussion of prosopography. Charles Wetherell writes: “Conceptualizing community as collections of personal relationships … provides historians with a blueprint for evaluating when, how and why people in the past used kin and non-kin in the course of their lives. The findings of social network analysts that people need and seek emotional and economic support of different kinds, from different kinds of people, suggest new analytical imperatives. It is not enough now to look solely at how people used kin in times of crisis. Earth Outreach With Google Maps Engine, you can upload geographic data in many different file formats. Supported vector formats include ESRI shapefiles, comma-separated files (.csv), and KML files. Supported image formats include JPEG2000, GeoTIFF, JPEG, TIFF, and MrSID.

CSS for Non-IE browsers Information Here I hope to demonstrate some of the CSS features that are possible in Mozilla, Netscape, Opera, Safari etc. in other words non-IE browsers. This will be based on the fact that these browsers allow the :hover pseudo class to be used on any element, which gives more scope for dynamic content such as drop-down, pull-out and cascading menus. 19th May 2007 Since starting this section, IE7 has appeared on the scene, and this browser has made the move to support :hover on any element.

A sneak preview of 3D Imaging at the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education Moving forward into the future of digitizing our cultural heritage, OML’s Digital Imaging Center is engaged in an innovative project to three-dimensionally image the library’s rare globe collection, the second-largest of its kind in a U.S. public institution. Generous grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Friends of the Osher Map Library support the conservation, and subsequent 3D imaging, of the collection's most threatened or valuable items. Digitization will make it possible for students and members of the public to manipulate and examine the rare globes online, preventing potential handling damage to these delicate objects. A digital undertaking such as this is no small task, considering that full-rounded 3D imaging by cultural institutions is still at its infant stage.

Introduction to tools for all theatre actors - Operabase Operabase has documented operatic activity worldwide since 1996, with over 500,000 performances on file. It records the work of artists in over 900 theatres, and publishes season information to opera-goers in 23 languages. The majority of Operabase's information is provided free of charge. The public area contains access to the current, last and announced future seasons.

Center for Spatial Research On the eve of an historic and controversial peace agreement in Colombia we have launched an investigation into the spatial characteristics of the decades long conflict between multiple state and non-state actors in the country. We have provisionally titled this research Conflict Urbanism: Colombia. Our work is still in the beginning phases.

District-wise monthly rainfall data (2004-2010) & list of raingauge stations, India Meteorological Department (IMD) Monthly rainfall data from 2004-2010 and raingauge stations list for the complete country, in the form of a spreadsheet that can be downloaded. The India Meteorological Department Rainfall data In response to an RTI petition filed by the South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers and People, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has made rainfall data for the past few years available at a monthly level, for each district of the country on their website.

Les nouvelles — NortekMED Nortek Northern European User Seminar 2014 NortekBV, NortekUK and Terra4 are pleased to invite you to attend the European user symposium. This symposium offers two days of user presentations, hands on demonstrations, technical discussions, our newest developments, and networking opportunities, all focused around (online) monitoring and measurement campaigns. The third day's program will be an informal event viewing the Round Texel Race. Seven New SeaDarQ Systems to China

Victorian London in Incredible Detail Here’s a real treat. The National Library of Scotland’s Map Department, supported by David Rumsey, have taken some very high-resolution scans of the Ordnance Survey 1:1056 (that’s 60 inches to the mile!) set of 500+ maps of London issued between 1893 and 1896 and, crucially, reorientated and stitched them together, so that they can be presented seamlessly (using OpenLayers) on top of a “standard” Google web map or OpenStreetMap, with the base map acting as a modern context.

Using the Databases The Getty Provenance Index® databases contain 1.5 million records that can be used for a wide variety of research purposes. The research examples below show how the data can be used. For assistance searching the databases, and for more information about the Project for the Study of Collecting and Provenance see the following: Research Examples

9 Beautiful Maps That You Would Like To See Maps show us direction and beauty definitely add values to them. It tell us story, that is reflected if it is a good map. Map has become popular medium to convey information. Below beautiful maps are my collection, collected from different websites. If you find any maps that you thing is beautiful and aesthetic, please share with us. 1.