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  2. History of cartography - Wikipedia

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    Hekatæus of Miletus (550–475 BC) produced another map fifty years later that he claimed was an improved version of the map of his illustrious predecessor. The world according to Hekatæus, 500 BC. Hecatæus's map describes the Earth as disk with an encircling Ocean, and with Greece placed in the center.

  3. National Atlas of the United States - Wikipedia

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    A National Atlas map from 2002 National Atlas map (from circa 2005) depicting historical United States territorial acquisitions. The National Atlas of the United States was an atlas published by the United States Department of the Interior from 1874 to 1997. Older editions were printed, but the most recent edition was available online.

  4. Cartography of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Maps of the New World had been produced since the 16th century. The history of cartography of the United States begins in the 18th century, after the declared independence of the original Thirteen Colonies on July 4, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War (1776–1783). Later, Samuel Augustus Mitchell published a map of the United States ...

  5. Mitchell Map - Wikipedia

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    The Mitchell Map. The Mitchell Map is a map made by John Mitchell (1711–1768), which was reprinted several times during the second half of the 18th century. The map, formally titled A map of the British and French dominions in North America &c., was used as a primary map source during the Treaty of Paris for defining the boundaries of the newly independent United States.

  6. Google Maps - Wikipedia

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    A version specifically for Windows Mobile was released in February 2007 [199] and the Symbian app was released in November 2007. [200] Version 2.0 of Google Maps Mobile was announced at the end of 2007, with a stand out My Location feature to find the user's location using the cell towers, without needing GPS.

  7. Category:Historic maps of the Americas - Wikipedia

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  8. The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts ...

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    In 1989 a second book, The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress: 1789-1989, was published by Macmillan.Using the congressional district boundary maps from the first atlas as the base maps, this work was the first book in American history to map the political party winner for all congressional elections for every state and district from 1789.

  9. Historical atlas - Wikipedia

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    Europe at the time of the Celts (1595), a map from one of the first historical atlases, by Abraham Ortelius Map of expansion of the Roman Empire, published in the William R. Shepherd Historical Atlas in 1924 The preface to the 1912 Cambridge Modern History Atlas explains the purpose of a historical atlas