Friday, August 3, 2018

Virtual 360 Tours Durango CO Give Reality A New Meaning

By Cynthia Foster


Maps are fascinating, as without them we would not know the rest of the world existed. Before the 15th century, maps had been an intuitive craft, practiced by seafaring explorers who navigated by the stars, winds, and currents without a definite destination mapped out. Prince Henry de Avis is credited with assembling the international team all experts, to revolutionize the advances made in navigation, geography, and cartography we see today. Technology has revolutionized the way virtual 360 tours Durango CO viewing and maps are made today, and they are used for many applications by custom wall maps for sale.

Maps are full of all sorts of information and make great wall decorations as a full wall wallpapered with a great map of the world. This would look great in a library, entrance hall, dining room or even in a bedroom. Or in a bathroom, if waterproofed. This would make for great bath-time dreams and keep your little ones occupied for a good while, at the same time stimulating their imaginations.

Today the use of maps is invaluable in just about every industry. Maps are used for website graphics, for GPS systems, in presentations, video and film broadcasts, and for promotions. Companies use maps for tracking sales in their customer- based areas to educate sales staff.

Wall maps printed on cloth can be used to make a great one of a kind traveling bag for the traveler in the family. To add to this a sun hat, phone cover, or purse which are all great gifts. For that traveler friend.

Technology has its good and bad aspects in this respect, as there are not as many great earth explorers as everything is available with the push of a button. Traveling is still popular, as people need to see places for themselves to experience the wonder of seeing a new place for the first time. It is just not the same when watching a destination on tv, or on a computer.

Wall maps are not just printed on paper, cloth maps were used during ww1 and ww2 by the British army, as these maps were easily transportable and were able to withstand the wear and tear that paper could not under those circumstances. Different materials used as well as paper and cloth are laminates and translucent material. A beautiful image is a translucent map in a frame with a light behind it.

Wall maps today show or the world as it now is with thousands of great minds gone into giving us this visible time-frame and every time-capsule planted by schools and individuals for future generations should include a cloth or laminated map. Who knows what maps will look like in 100 to 500 years? Will there even be maps or just holo-graphs to show man's exploration of our earth?

Wall maps first used for teaching purposes, has come a long way from their original intentions, but keeping to their original ideal of learning and instruction plus enlightening people on our world and its many variations of lands, seas, forests, deserts and cities populated with many millions of people, all different yet the same, speaking many different languages, yet all under one ever-changing sky. There is a great selection of all types of maps to use in your decorative projects at custom wall maps for sale.




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