Take a Trip with Adventure
Travel Maps from Ball State University Libraries
The Ball State University
Libraries’ GIS Research and Map Collection (GRMC) has received a donation of
four new Adventure Travel Maps published
by National Geographic. The National
Geographic Adventure Travel Map
series features folded waterproof, tear-resistant maps. Each map highlights an area’s terrain showing
detailed topography and includes an index identifying thousands of cities and
towns. As the name implies, these maps
are ideal resources for travelers due to their durability and information.
National parks are shown
and forest cover is identified with shading.
The maps also include road networks with distances marked along the
routes and color designations for major highways or expressways, secondary
roads, cable car routes, tracks, and paths.
Important travel aids like airports, gas stations, lighthouses, ferry
routes, and rail lines are also identified.
And local police, ambulance, and fire telephone numbers are included on
some of the maps.
The maps also list hundreds
of unique points of interest in the area.
Windmills, zoos, archaeological sites, caves, museums, castles, and golf
courses are all featured using different symbols on the maps. The maps also identify the locations of monasteries,
churches, and other sacred sites. UNESCO
World Heritage sites are also shown.
The newest Adventure Travel Maps in the GRMC on the
second floor of Bracken Library are maps of the Czech Republic, Vietnam South
and Vietnam North, and Florence, Italy.
The map of Florence includes inset maps of the region and of the city’s
Old Town (Centro Storico) section. A map
of Amerigo Vespucci Airport is also included.
The GRMC also includes Adventure Travel Maps of the Four
Corners region of the United States, Chicago, San Francisco, Washington, D.C,
Berlin and Munich, Germany, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Cape Town, South Africa,
and Venice, Italy.
Maps from the GRMC circulate
for two weeks or longer. For more
information, please contact the GRMC at 765-285-1097.
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