----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Hi, Ron - Where is this map now? In the U of A Map Library, I hope! - Cheers, Fran On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Ronald Whistance-Smith wrote: > ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > For the World University Games or Universiade held in Edmonton in 1983, > Lillian Wonders and her cartography students designed and created a world > map which covered most of the playing surface of the football field in > Commonwealth Stadium. I can't find the actual dimensions of the map at the > moment but a Canadian football field is 110 yds. long and also wider than > the American field. Much of the opening entertainment was designed to take > place on this map and, I believe, teams from the nations marched to their > place on the map. I'll have to review that to check my memory, which has > certainly at times been proven faulty. > > Ron. > > At 05:13 PM 4/8/97 EDT, you wrote: > >----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > > > >Does anybody know (and is there a consensus) as to where the largest World > >Map can be found? > > > >Thank you! > > > >Ingo Gunther > >www.worldprocessor.com > > > > > Ron Whistance-Smith > 14520 84th Ave. NW > Edmonton, AB > Canada T5R 3X2 > FAX: (403) 483-5858 email: [log in to unmask] > ************************************************************************** Frances Woodward, Special Collections & University Archives Division, Main Library, University of British Columbia, 1956 Main Mall, Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z1 Tel: (604) 822-2819 Fax: (604) 822-9587 E-mail: [log in to unmask] URL: http://www.library.ubc.ca/spcoll/ **************************************************************************