Morgan Large, a final year LIPA student of Theatre and Performance Design, has created a floor map of Sir Paul's life, which aims to make visitors feel they are flying over some of the important landmarks of his artistic development.

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Once there, they use aerial photography and remote cameras in combination with depth-finding and global-positioning satellite technology (as well as some first-hand testing of the waves) to measure the waves and map the contours of the ocean floor under the breaks.

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Slap in the centre of town stands St George's Church, where the only surviving fragment of the famed Mosaic Map of the Holy Land is interred in the floor.

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The marvel of an early Byzantine mosaic map of the Middle East was discovered on a church floor here last century and is on view today.

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For the museum's Pacific Hall, set to reopen in the fall, Ms. Ide came up with the idea to put a large map on a new wood floor, inlaid with images of islands and letters in contrasting wood to draw visitors into the sweep of the original Pacific migration to Hawaii.

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Visitors are handed a customized Nintendo DS mobile-game unit and led to a screen in the floor made up of 70 large display panels showing a detailed, animated map of Kyoto.

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