Communications

Mapping Satellite Coverage
Satbeams displays satellite coverage maps — i.e., where on the world signals can be received from a given satellite — in a Google Maps context. Neat, comprehensive, and fascinating to look at. Via Mapperz and Ogle Earth…. »
Posted on Monday, July 21, 2008 at 3:20 PM
Categories: Communications
1914 Telephone Exchange Map
Modern Mechanix reproduces a 1914 AT&T advertisement showing a map of telephone exchanges in the United States. The accompanying text pumps AT&T’s agreement to connect all telephone subscribers “regardless of who owns the exchanges” and notes that the incipient… »
Posted on Monday, June 2, 2008 at 4:16 PM
Categories: Communications
Map of U.S. Mobile Phone Laws
From the April issue of Wired, a map showing U.S. state-level laws banning or restricting mobile phone use while behind the wheel…. »
Posted on Monday, April 21, 2008 at 8:20 AM
Categories: Communications
Transportation and Communications Maps of Mexico
Ken Arroyo Ohori writes, “The Mexican Secretariat of Communications and Transport provides good maps on all forms of transportation in Mexico. Maps are divided by state and have just been updated.” The maps are good-quality PDFs, which means they’re big… »
Posted on Monday, February 25, 2008 at 7:16 PM
Categories: Communications, Transportation
Undersea Cable Maps
A collection of maps of undersea cables, beginning with Atlantic telegraph cable maps from 1858 and finishing with a world cable map from 1992. Most of the maps are older, though, and quite interesting. Via Things Magazine…. »
Posted on Tuesday, January 3, 2006 at 5:25 PM
Categories: Antique Maps, Communications

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