Wednesday, August 8, 2018

Making Your Own History With Maps And Virtual 360 Tours Durango CO

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.

Vintage maps can be used to decorate furniture very effectively, drawer fronts decorated like this would give a lift to an otherwise dull chest of drawers. Boxes, lamps, and really any piece of furniture that you can imagine will all be spruced up with wall maps used to cover them.

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.

A light summer jacket or waistcoat is another use for this material, as printed map materials lend themselves to many applications, t and for the clever craftsperson, you will have no end of ideas of how to use this printed material of maps.

For home use, a lounge would look stunning with printed map material covering cushions, a few ottomans, footstools, a tablecloth on side tables, with a printed lampshade. A printed wall map in a frame or loose on the wall is another idea to use. Coaster can be decoupaged to match the theme.

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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