Vinland Voyage Map Generator

This form takes longitude/latitude pairs as input and plops them on a Mercator projection map along with land/sea and political boundaries. The map bounds will be about 10% larger than the bounds of the entered data points.

The default values on the form below yeild this nice map of a posible voyage to Vinland .

Enter the lon/lat pairs in the box below:
- One pair per line.
- West longitude is negative.
- Digital degrees only.
- To cross the date line, use East longitudes (eg. 170 to 190.

Select the method to plot points:dotsconnecting linesdots & connecting linesdon't plot the points!

Please wait for your map to be generated! If you abort and reload the form, you'll just create another process that will slow things down even more!

Press this button to submit the query: 

The map is by "pscoast," part of the freely available GMT package, version 3.

Pete did all the rest of the playing with this form for the map to Vinland.
The URL of this page is http://crusty.er.usgs.gov/mapit/index.html

Last modified: Monday, 30-Aug-99 09:04:16 EDT
For comments and questions, contact rsignell (at) crusty.er.usgs.gov
Rich Signell