In Nov 2017 the David Rumsey Map Collection at Stanford University obtained i of alone 2 manuscript copies of Urbano Monte's Planisphere. This huge map is i of the earliest large consummate maps of the world.
The master copy manuscript map is inwards the course of education of a threescore canvass atlas. Urbano Monte intended for the sheets to endure joined together to exercise i real large 10 pes map. The David Rumsey Map Collection has achieved that finish past times digitizing all threescore sheets as well as creating a digital interactive map of Urbano Monte's Planisphere.
Jeremy Ashkenas has used the David Rumsey Map Collection's version of Urbano Monte's 1587 map to exercise an interactive 3D WebGL globe of the Planisphere. Urbano Monti’s Planisphere (1587) allows y'all to sentiment the map equally an interactive globe.
Urbano Monte's master copy Planisphere uses a due north polar azimuthal projection. This projection places the North Pole at the catch of the map. Urbano Monte himself suggested that a fundamental pin endure added to the catch of the map as well as thus that users could rotate the map piece exploring the atlas. Viewing the map equally a 3D digital globe also seems to work.
Visionscarto has also used the map tiles from the David Rumsey interactive map to exercise a tool for viewing Urbano Monte's Planisphere using unlike map projections. Urbano Monte World Map Reprojections. includes 21 unlike map projections. It fifty-fifty includes everyone's favorite Mercator projection, which agency y'all tin brand straight comparisons betwixt Urbano Monte's Planisphere as well as Google Maps if y'all as well as thus wish.
