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A map is a simplified depiction of a space, a navigational aid which highlights relations between objects within that space. Most usually a map is a two-dimensional, geometrically accurate representation of a three-dimensional space. The science and art of map-making is cartography; see that page for further discussion of the history of maps and map-making.
Map-making dates back to the Stone Age and appears to predate written language by several millennia. One of the oldest surviving maps is painted on a wall of the Catal Huyuk settlement in south-central Anatolia (now Turkey); it dates from about 6200 BC.
While we tend to think of maps today as products of a rationalistic, scientific world-view, maps also have a mythic quality. Pre-modern maps, and mapping traditions outside the Western tradition, often merge geography with non-scientific cosmography, showing the relationship of the viewer to the universe. Medieval "T-O" maps, for example, show Jerusalem at the centre of the world, and in some cases related the "body" of the Earth to the body of Christ. By contrast, navigational (or "Portolan") charts of the Mediterranean from the same period are remarkably accurate. Even today, maps can be powerful rhetorical tools beyond their purely practical value, and this has been the source of much fruitful map criticism over the last twenty years, notably in the works of J.B. Harley, Mark Monmonier, and Denis Wood.
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JarfOmega (JarfOmega) Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:00:23 -0000
Breaking the fuck out of ArcSDE, smashing databases with hammers, and making maps of your mom's dick. Normal Tuesday.
Genetic Maps of the Rat Genome - Images of genetic linkage maps resulting from the integration of two F2 intercrosses (SHRSP x BN and FHH x ACI).
Rat Genome Data - Details genetic markers, polymorphisms and maps, links to related data available in the mouse genome database, and other resources.
Rat Genome Database - RGD - Collaborative effort between research institutions involved in genetic and genomic research. Features genes, SSLPs, ESTs, QTLs, strain information and a range of tools.
Meta Description: [ the rat genome database contains rat genomic data such as genes,sslps,ests,qtls,strains,rhmap,sequences and tools such as vcmap,genome scanner, rhmap server,metagene,and hosts rat comunity forum. ]
Rat Mapping Resources - Links to genetic and radiation hybrid maps, markers and other resources from The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics.
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RATMAP - Database covering genes physically mapped to chromosomes in the laboratory rat. Literature references to each mapped gene are also given and support for comparative mapping to several species.
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