In Nov 2017 the David Rumsey Map Collection at Stanford University obtained 1 of alone ii 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 assort of a threescore canvass atlas. Urbano Monte intended for the sheets to survive joined together to exercise 1 really large 10 human foot map. The David Rumsey Map Collection has achieved that destination past times digitizing all threescore sheets as well as creating a digital interactive map of Urbano Monte's Planisphere.
Monte himself suggested that a cardinal pin survive added to the middle of the map then that users could rotate the map spell exploring the atlas. The digital interactive version of the map does include a rotation button, which hateful you lot tin hand notice spin the map approximately its cardinal pivot, equally Urbano Monte intended.
Urbano Monte's Planisphere uses a northward polar azimuthal projection. This projection places the North Pole at the middle of the map. Modern users, to a greater extent than accustomed to Google Maps, are used to northward existence at the overstep of the map as well as mightiness combat 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 you lot tin hand notice brand straight comparisons amongst Google Maps if you lot then wish.
