Re: [CR]Classic bicycle map

(Example: Component Manufacturers:Cinelli)

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To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
From: "joel metz, ifbma/sfbma" <magpie@messengers.org>
Subject: Re: [CR]Classic bicycle map
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 14:28:40 -0700

ive seen this map reprinted before in about a 2' tall format...

though you *could* download it from the library of congress site, download the special reader for the file format its in, import it into photoshop, and at the resolution i think its up there at, print it out as a huge poster, if you had the print facilities... and its out of copyright - woo hoo!

hoo boy, too much time on my hands...

-joel


>Mitzi being a serious academic and me being a psudo-academic we have
>a tendency to look at really geeky webpages. Yesterday we were
>looking at the Library of Congress' webpages at all the old maps
>that they have. I found one I thought would be of particular
>interest to classic cyclists. It's a turn-of-the-century map of
>the bike routes in California. It's a really long URL sorry:
><http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/map_item.pl?data=/home/www/data/gmd/
>gmd436/g4361/g4361p/ct000092.sid&itemLink=r?ammem/
>gmd:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(g4361p+ct000092))+@field(COLLID+trnsmap)
>)&title=Map+of+California+roads+for+cyclers.+&style=trnsmap&legend>
>
>enjoy,
>Brandon"monkeyman"Ives
>SB, CA
>
>_______________________________________________

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