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Aad Knutsson Gjelle

Aad Knutsson Gjelle (31 December 1768 – 27 February 1840) was a Norwegian cartographer.

Bartholomew Columbus

Born in the Republic of Genoa, in the 1470s Bartholomew was a mapmaker in Lisbon, the principal center of cartography of the time, and conceived with his brother the "Enterprise of the Indies", a scheme to reach the Orient and its lucrative spice trade by a western rather than an eastern route.

Bryan Manor

A map by the French cartographer Desandrouin in 1781–1782 indicated a complex of five buildings.

Cantre'r Gwaelod

Lewis takes the view that maps by the cartographer Ptolemy marked the coastline of Cardigan Bay in the same location as it appears in modern times, suggesting that the date of the flood occurred before the second century AD.

Cartography of the United States

The history of cartography of the United States begins in the 18th century, after the declared independence of the Thirteen original colonies on July 4, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783).

Claudius Clavus

It is believed he travelled as far north as the 70°10' N. lat. In Rome he became friends with the cardinal Giordano Orsini and the pope's secretary Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, who were among those working to update the old Roman cartography.

David Woodward

David Woodward (29 August 1942 – 25 August 2004) was an English-born American historian of cartography and cartographer.

Dragon turtle

Mapmakers sometimes drew dragon turtles along with other fantastical creatures in unexplored areas.

Estêvão Gomes

Estêvão Gomes, also known in the Spanish versions of his name as Estevan Gómez or Esteban Gómez, (Porto, Kingdom of Portugal, c. 1483 - Paraguay River, 1538), was a Portuguese cartographer and explorer.

Franz Stuhlmann

After his recovery he joined the expedition of Emin Pasha to the lake region, was sent ahead from Undussuma to Lake Victoria, and reached the coast in July, 1892, at Bagamoyo, whence he returned to Germany with valuable cartographic material and rich collections, to which he added copiously on another trip to German East Africa, undertaken in 1893-94 by order of the government.

John Pinkerton

Pinkerton, along with John Thomson & Co. and John Cary, redefined cartography by exchanging the elaborate cartouches and fantastical beasts used in the 18th century for more accurate detail.

Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres

Colonel Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres (22 November 1721 – 27 October 1824 (or 24 October 1824 ) was a cartographer who served in the Seven Years War, in part, as the aide-de-camp to General James Wolfe.

Julius Schiller

Julius Schiller (c. 1580 – 1627) was a lawyer from Augsburg, Germany, who like his fellow citizen and colleague Johann Bayer published a star atlas in celestial cartography.

Mary Wilhelmine Williams

From 1918 to 1919 Williams served the government of Honduras as a cartographic, geographic, and historical specialist in relation with its border disagreements with Guatemala and Nicaragua.

Professor Robert Clancy

Professor Clancy was awarded an AM (Order of Australia) in 2005 for service to cartography as a collector of early maps of Australia, and to the field of immunology.

SK-42 reference system

Borodko, Alexander, Topographic and geodetic provisions of the Russian Federation frontier delimitation and demarcation, Federal Agency of Geodesy and Cartography, International Symposium on Land and River Boundaries Demarcation and Maintenance in Support of Borderland Development, Bangkok, Thailand, 6–11 November 2006

Spatial analysis

MacEachren, A. M. and D. R. F. Taylor (eds.) (1994) Visualization in Modern Cartography, Pergamon.

Talons of Night

Its interior art is by Paul Jacquays, and cartography by Dennis Kauth and Steve Sullivan.

The Atlas of Middle-earth

Karen Wynn Fonstad had earned a Master's degree in Geography, specializing in cartography, from the University of Oklahoma, and worked as Director of Cartographic Services at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh before "retirement" to raising children and writing atlases of fictional worlds.

Thomas Valley

Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) (1997) after Jean-Claude Thomas, Associate Professor of Geography-Cartography, Catholic University of America, 1967–76, George Mason University, 1976–85; United States Geological Survey (USGS) Cartographer from 1985, specializing in satellite image mapping at various scales, including the 1:25,000-scale color maps of McMurdo Dry Valleys, 1997.

Toby Lester

He also looks at its place in the history of map-making from the days of the second-century Greek-Egyptian geographer Ptolemy and his treatise on geography.

Trevor Paglen

Experimental Geography: Radical Approaches to Landscape, Cartography, and Urbanism (Melville House Publishing, 2009, ISBN 978-0-09-163658-6


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