{"id":925,"date":"2004-07-31T15:37:59","date_gmt":"2004-07-31T19:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=925"},"modified":"2004-07-31T15:37:59","modified_gmt":"2004-07-31T19:37:59","slug":"lost-in-an-old-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=925","title":{"rendered":"Lost in an old map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oblomovka.com\">Danny O&#8217;Brien,<\/a> I have lost a whole morning looking at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidrumsey.com\/\">ancient maps. This<\/a> is a truly fantastic site, though regrettably biased towards the <span class=\"caps\">USA.<\/span> If you download the Java viewer, you can examine and save maps from most of the last two centuries at very high resolutions: I saved a map of Stockholm at about half the maximum level of detail and got a 2.5 MB jpeg.<\/p>\n\n<p>What I wanted to look at was the place where I lived as a child for a couple of years: one of the nicest addresses and finest views in the whole world, and Strandv<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Danny O&#8217;Brien, I have lost a whole morning looking at ancient maps. This is a truly fantastic site, though regrettably biased towards the <span class=\"caps\">USA.<\/span> If you download the Java viewer, you can examine and save maps from most &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=925\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=925\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}