El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-04
Part Of World Map Finished
All Nations of the World Are to Take
Part in the Making of Wonder
ful Outline of the Earth.
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might be used. This can be translated
into miles upon maps to be used in
promises upon other matters, includ-
ing the spelling and naming of towns
and provinces It was decided that
the latin alphabet alone should be
used without reference to the script
of Russia, Germany and China. Upon
the map Florence will be known as
Fienza, Rome as Roma, the Hague as
S. Gravenhagen, Vienna as Vein and
a long list of similar changes agreed
upon by the committee for reasons
of many kinds
Islands to be shown.
3 A base upon which the map is built
is made by dividing the surface of the
earth into sheets measuring 40 degrees
This arrangement requires so sheets
to belt the earth and twenty-five and
a half to extend from the equator to
the pole To represent the entire
hemisphere would require 1921 sheets
or over $500 for the entire globe.
Since three-fourths of the surface is
covered with water the atlas probably
will include only about 1000 sheets,
including the oceanic islands.
circumference Divided.
The sheets are numbered by letters
and figures. Instead of making
Greenwich meridian the center between
east and west the beginning was made
at the meridian just opposite on the
other side of the earth The Green
witch meridian passes through sew
eral countries and its use would have
divided them east and west. The
opposite meridian passes entirely
through water so its use overcomes
this objection. The circumference is
divided into 90 parts each having the
so degrees of the sheets. The paral-
lels of latitude are marked by letters
instead of figures beginning with "A"
at the equator and going up to ""
outside the circles of the poles. This
gives to every sheet of the map a dis
tinct number by which it can be
readily designated The sheet publish
ed as "The Boston Map is officially
known as North K-19 because it has
the K parallel and the 10 meridian
coming together at its north east
corner. The map of Kenhardt, South
Africa, published by Great Britain IS
South H-34."
Will Mark All Streams.
The map will be printed in sections
about "a by 25 inches in size. They
will represent the highest art of map
making and include twenty-one shades
in their coloring, These will repre-
sent different elevations from the
deepest blue, indicating 200 feet be-
low sea level ranging through a num-
Der of shades each of green. brown
and purple to white This last marks
the altitude of highest mountains
unOle lnan t.OVU rect ABOVE sea level
Red and black lines are also intro
duced to represent roads and boun-
daries. Fresh and salt water,
marshes. woods, forests, glaciers and
navigable streams are all to be clear
" portrayed. so that the traveller may
know all obOut a country before com
ing to it,
In addition to the natural conditions.
every attention viii be given to the
indications of Commercial improve
ments. Telegraph lines. railroads.
post offices, the limit of navigable
streams. important bridges and other
advantages. Marks of different kinds
indicate the sizes of towns from the
L-shaped block denoting a population
100000 down to the tiny ring indicat-
ing less than 5000. Smaller villages
VIII be indicated by different sized
black dots.
One Section Completed.
The only completed section Of the
international map yet made by the
United States geological survey is the
one known as North K-19. Michigan,
in its proper relation to the adjacent
ooaaa1O oathe man that broke theth
country. requires two large sheets of
paper SO by So inches to represent
it. For Delaware one sheet by u
inches is sufficient AS 53 inches is
the fullest capacity of the engravers'
stone, il was feared three sheets would
be required for Michigan. Texas and
California will present still greater
areas to handle. but work upon these
states already has begun