Poland, 1584 (Raster Image) Full Details

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Title:

Poland, 1584 (Raster Image)

Description:

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Poloniae finitimarumque locorum descriptio. It was published by: Auctoris aere & cura impressum, absbolutúmque apud Christophorum Plantinum in 1584. Scale approximately 1:2,600,000. Map in Latin. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the WGS 1984 World Mercator (EPSG: 3395 coordinate system. All map features and collar and inset information are shown as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of geographies, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

Creator:

Grodecki, Wacław, 1535?-1591, Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598, and Plantin, Christophe, approximately 1520-1589

Publisher:

Harvard Map Collection, Harvard Library

Provider:

Harvard

Resource Class:

Maps

Resource Type:

Raster data

Temporal Coverage:

1584

Date Issued:

2019-06

Place:

Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova

License:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

GeoTIFF

Date Added:

2022-03-04