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These routes mark the journeys of the various missions of Spanish explorers in North America, from which this map is derived. The layer includes just the routes themselves, not their descriptive labels, as to emphasize how explorers and surveyors…

Vespucci also adds some more figurative items to the map that give a different sort of information to the viewer. Most notable are the two man-made structures shown (completely out of scale), the 'Castelo de Lamina' in West Africa and the small fort…

This layer includes the flags drawn on the map representing different imperial claims to the space and the text explicitly labeling regions as Spanish, English, and Anglo-American possessions.

This layer includes the lakes, bays, and oceans noted on the map. This is separate from the river layer because they require different navigational strategies to explore them and foster different lifestyles for the peoples living near them. They…

Text is an immediately striking part of the map. It forms the border of the map, and crowds in the globe, particularly filling the northern hemisphere. The text performs a variety of roles, from describing what the map shows and its maker (in the…

This layer traces all of the rivers included on the map. I have tried to recreate the variations in line thickness used on the map to indicate relative size of the rivers. Not included in the layer are the names given to the rivers or the explicit…

In his map, Vespucci does not distinguish between countries or within land masses by lines. Instead, the lines on the map show the enge of land and how it borders with water, primarily oceans and seas. I have also included rivers in this layer…

This layer shows the lines that the mapmaker used to design the projection. This is an important backbone to the map as it shows how Vespucci planned the unusual polar projection and the lines would have provided him with guidelines for where…

This layer possesses the buildings of London and the surrounding towns in 1814. Each item appears as a polygon.

This layer contains parks, gardens and squares. The original map colors these spaces green. Several large scale parks such as Regent's Park and Hyde Park appear on the map. This map claims itself to be a partially drawn from intended future plans for…