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Title: Map of Africa Showing its most Recent Discoveries (Raster Image)

• Mitchell, S. Augustus (Samuel Augustus), 1792-1868
• Williams, W. (Wellington)
• Stanford Geospatial Center

Dates

• Issued: 2013
• Coverage: 1881

Publishers

• Stanford Digital Repository

Summary

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of a continental map of Africa from 1881. This map shows the expedition routes of Stanley and Livingstone and contains an inset depicting the Island of St. Helena (place where Napoleon was buried). This map was georeferenced using a Sinusoidal projection. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, or other information associated with the principal map. This historic paper map provides an historical perspective of the cultural and physical landscape during this time period. The wide range of information provided on these maps make them useful in the study of historic geography. As this map has been georeferenced, it also can be used as a background layer in conjunction with other GIS data. The horizontal positional accuracy of a raster image is approximately the same as the accuracy of the published source map. The lack of a greater accuracy is largely the result of the inaccuracies with the original measurements and possible distortions in the original paper map document. There may also be errors introduced during the digitizing and georeferencing process. In most cases, however, errors in the raster image are small compared with sources of error in the original map graphic. The RMS error for this map is 1539.89 meters. This value describes how consistent the transformation is between the different control points (links). The RMS error is only an assessment of the accuracy of the transformation. Mitchell, S. Augustus, Wellington, Williams, and Stanford Geospatial Center. (2013) Map of Africa Showing its most Recent Discoveries (Raster Image). Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/px984sn6906. For more information about Stanford's Maps of Africa Collection, see here: https://exhibits.stanford.edu/maps-of-africa. This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.

Subjects

• Africa
• Discoveries in geography
• Historical geography
• Landforms
• Bodies of water
• Livingstone, David, 1813-1873
• Imagery and Base Maps
• Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

• Bounding Box: BBOX (-69.6552314, 110.0668088, 49.4836333, -45.629135)
• Geometry: BBOX (-69.6552314, 110.0668088, 49.4836333, -45.629135)

Provider

Stanford

Rights

• Access rights: Public

Citation

Mitchell, S. Augustus (Samuel Augustus), 1792-1868, Williams, W. (Wellington), Stanford Geospatial Center. Map of Africa Showing its most Recent Discoveries (Raster Image). Stanford Digital Repository. Raster data. https://purl.stanford.edu/px984sn6906

Format

GeoTIFF

Languages

• English