User:Jdhowens90
Welcome[edit]
Hello. My name is Josh, and I live in Manchester, United Kingdom. My interests include:
- History, especially U.S. and military
- Politics, particularly U.S. & international and
- Astronomy/Spaceflight
John Rocque's maps of London were published in 1746. A French-born British surveyor and cartographer, John Rocque produced two maps of London and the surrounding area. The better known of these, depicted here, is a 24-sheet map of the City of London and the surrounding area, surveyed by Rocque and engraved by John Pine and titled A Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster, and Borough of Southwark. Rocque combined two surveying techniques: he made a ground-level survey with a compass and a physical metal chain – the unit of length also being the chain. Compass bearings were taken of the lines measured. He also created a triangulation network over the entire area to be covered by taking readings from church towers and similar high places using a theodolite made by Jonathan Sisson (the inventor of the telescopic-sighted theodolite) to measure the observed angle between two other prominent locations. The process was repeated from point to point. This image depicts all 24 sheets of Rocque's map.Map credit: John Rocque and John Pine
Subpages[edit]
- Templates that I have finished, or are at least ready for use.
- Sandbox- templates that still need some refining, or other improvement.
- My Photographs- photgraphs that I've taken and uploaded.
Pages That I Have Created[edit]
Pages That I Have Contributed To[edit]
Me
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Include;
- John Glenn
- Astronomy
- Doctor Who
- British Raj
- Cabinet of the United Kingdom
- Nicholas Soames
- World War II
- History of the Soviet Union
- And one I'm particularly proud of, Sir William Walton.
Things To Do[edit]
WikiProjects of which I am a member[edit]
- British Government
- Doctor Who
- European Union
- Golf
- Grammar
- Jesus
- Space missions
- Treaties
- Voting systems
Countries I've Been To[edit]
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