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Fire Insurance Maps During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, fire insurance maps were periodically drawn up for cities and towns in the United States. These maps were commissioned by insurance companies in order to more accurately calculate fire risk, depicting the layout of the town and showing each existing building. The maps offer a great deal of information, and can show the outline of the building, the building material, the number of stories, doors, windows and chimneys, the address and lot lines, street widths, water pipes, hydrants and cisterns. The Sanborn Company was the largest, but not the only, fire insurance mapping firm. The Sanborn Company was founded in 1867, and created fire insurance maps from 1867 until 1969.

Before happening any trip whether you are driving it or going by another other modes of transportation, it is essential to have a variety of travel maps available. The last thing anyone wants to have happen is getting lost on his or her trip. Being lost takes valuable excursion from enjoying yourself if it is a pleasure trip, or removes from working time if the trip is for business. There are several places to find travel maps, and most of them are easy to come by. The pair most obvious places in first getting travel maps is to go to your local grocery or convenience stores. They might not have a broad variety of maps, but theyre a really good source for guidelines that cover all of the US. Another obvious place to go to for obtaining maps, particularly road maps is most any gas station. Anyone who has ever been lost in a strange town knows how important gas stations can be when in desperate need of a guide.

Interactive map making software usually supports custom definable regions, areas and location points. Users can select pre-designed flash map templates, and easily change color settings of countries or counties, and pinpoint locations on the map by using pushpin buttons or icons. A hover over tooltip box can be displayed with your own text, images, with links to another web page, PDF documents, or sites on the World Wide Web. As the main purpose of these maps are for navigation or data representation purpose, geographical details such as highways, buildings, rivers are not always necessary, which makes the map cleaner and easier to navigate by visitors. With few click-through on the national, state or county map, visitors can quickly find information or be redirected to specific page about a particular location on the map image.

You may have dreamed as a child in finding a "Treasure Map", such as the one from Treasure Island. Such dreams can come true when hunting for an antique map. With a basic knowledge of history and an interest in finding a deal, one can discover some real "treasures" in old antique maps. There have been maps purchased for a few dollars that were actually worth the price of a house. Even if you have been on the look out for the Treasure Map for as many years as I, you may not find it. However you may easily double or triple your money when you know what to look for in an antique map. Finding the right map can sometimes feel like looking for the proverbial needle in a haystack. You should start your hunt by determining a selection of maps that have sold in the last two years between $500 and $3,000. Start to learn about the cartographers and editions of these maps. You will find estimates of the sales of old maps on major auction sites or even on eBay.

The monetary value of many antiques is based on what a prospective buyer is willing to pay for them, so the value of antique maps will vary. There are plenty of people who are willing to pay high prices for old maps, so their potential value is very high, depending upon their condition, the year in which they were produced, and many other factors. There are old maps that are worth two hundred dollars each and old maps that are worth thousands of dollars each. Small details can make all the difference. Finding Antique Maps Many of the best antique maps are part of historical and private collections. Maps are not the most durable antique items in the world, so there are only so many antique maps available today. The further back anyone goes historically, the harder it will be to find old maps from that time period. One of the reasons that old maps are so valuable in the first place is the fact that they are so rare and so fragile. They are tiny pieces of history that can be easily lost and can easily fade with time.

The OS Explorer map series is the most popular choice and an essential for longer or more complex walks or those going off the beaten track. It is highly detailed and shows all rights of way, footpaths, landscape and interest features and contours. Every house, public facility or point of interest is covered giving you all the tools you need to locate yourself as well as finding that nearest pub for a drink after a hard days walking! The scale is 1:25000 - that is 1cm on the map equates to 250m on the ground (4cm per km or 2 1/2 inches to a mile) The OS Landranger map series covers a wider area with a scale of 1:50000 (thats 1cm on the map to every 500m on the ground, 2cm per km or 1 1/4 inches to the mile). This makes it handy for planning a day out over a broader area and for getting a good picture of where you are going and it shows the main footpaths and rights of way as well as tourist information and points of interest. However it doesnt contain as much detail as the OS Explorer range and if you are going off into the wilds you will need the detail of the Explorer map to navigate with confidence.