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Thompson was the subject of a 1964 National Film Board of Canada short film David Thompson: The Great Mapmaker , [38] as well as the BBC2 programme Ray Mears' Northern Wilderness (Episode 5), broadcast in November 2009. [39] He's also the subject of 2010 KSPS-TV film Uncharted Territory: David Thompson on the Columbia Plateau. [40]
Carlo de Candia (1803–1862), Italian cartographer, created the large maritime map of Sardinia in 1: 250,000 scale, travel version. John Bartholomew the elder (26 April 1805 – 8 April 1861), Scottish cartographer and engraver. Henry Peter Bosse (Germany/United States, 1844–1903), also photographer and civil engineer.
The history of cartography refers to the development and consequences of cartography, or mapmaking technology, throughout human history. Maps have been one of the most important human inventions for millennia, allowing humans to explain and navigate their way through the world. When and how the earliest maps were made is unclear, but maps of ...
www .cartography .org .uk. The British Cartographic Society ( BCS) is an association of individuals and organisations dedicated to exploring and developing the world of maps. It is a registered charity. [2] Membership includes national mapping agencies, publishers, designers, academics, researchers, map curators, individual cartographers, GIS ...
Marie Tharp (July 30, 1920 – August 23, 2006) was an American geologist and oceanographic cartographer. In the 1950s, she collaborated with geologist Bruce Heezen to produce the first scientific map of the Atlantic Ocean floor. [1] Her cartography revealed a more detailed topography and multi-dimensional geographical landscape of the ocean ...
National Geographic Maps, founded in 1915, is the commercial map publishing division of National Geographic, part of a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company and the National Geographic Society. Initially the in-house cartographic studio for National Geographic Magazine, National Geographic Maps is now responsible for the creation and ...
Gulf of the Ganges ( Bay of Bengal) left, Southeast Asian peninsula in the center, South China Sea right, with "Sinae" (China). The Ptolemy world map is a map of the world known to Greco-Roman societies in the 2nd century. It is based on the description contained in Ptolemy 's book Geography, written c. 150. Based on an inscription in several ...
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