Arabic-L: Electronic outline map of ME & N Africa

[Alex Bellem]

Greetings again,

I just wanted to thank you all for the several speedy responses I've had
- looks like I'm not the only map-needer. The resource mentioned by
Nimat Barazangi is great. It needs a Java-enabled machine (so I haven't
tried it yet), but this mapping tool means that we can create our own
maps, which is extremely useful for dialect geographies (and may even
turn some of us into amateur cartographers!).

Best,
A.


In message <6.2.1.2.2.20060829034545.033447a0 at postoffice9.mail.cornell.e
du>, Nimat Hafez Barazangi <nhb2 at cornell.edu> writes
>    Check 
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>    http://atlas.geo.cornell.edu/       go to  
>    http://atlas.geo.cornell.edu/projects.html
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>    and/ or
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>    http://atlas.geo.cornell.edu/webmap/
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>    Best wishes,
>    Nimat
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>    At 07:27 AM 8/28/2006, Alex Bellem wrote:
>>       Greetings,
>
>>       I am looking for an outline map (with major towns and cities 
>>       marked) of the Middle East and North Africa - in electronic
format. Does anyone
>>       know where I could get hold of such a thing (e.g. websites with 
>>       such a
>>       map downloadable)? I have googled till my eyes goggled, and 
>>       searched the
>>       University of Texas library, but I can't find an *outline* map 
>>       (I need
>>       something that works in black and white). The reason I need to 
>>       find such
>>       a thing is to be able to map out some isoglosses (for some work 
>>       on
>>       Arabic dialect geography).
>
>>       I'd be very grateful for any help with this!
>
>>       Many thanks,
>>       Alex Bellem.
>

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Alex Bellem  
Dept of Linguistics
SOAS, University of London
alex at bellem-hussein.demon.co.uk