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2. National Geographic Maps - Wikipedia

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   World map published in National Geographic magazine in December 1922. Other divisions and groups within National Geographic Partners and National Geographic Society also create and distribute maps in their publications, including the National Geographic Magazine and Books divisions, but not within the commercial map publishing industry.

3. List of atlases - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of notable atlases, each a collection of maps, ... National Geographic Atlas of the World (United States, 1963–present) Pergamon World Atlas (1962/1968)

4. Robinson projection - Wikipedia

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   The National Geographic Society (NGS) began using the Robinson projection for general-purpose world maps in 1988, replacing the Van der Grinten projection. [2] In 1998, NGS abandoned the Robinson projection for that use in favor of the Winkel tripel projection , as the latter "reduces the distortion of land masses as they near the poles".

5. List of map projections - Wikipedia

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   Gott, Goldberg and Vanderbei’s double-sided disk map was designed to minimize all six types of map distortions. Not properly "a" map projection because it is on two surfaces instead of one, it consists of two hemispheric equidistant azimuthal projections back-to-back. [5] [6] [7] 1879 Peirce quincuncial: Other Conformal Charles Sanders Peirce

6. Winkel tripel projection - Wikipedia

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   By a different metric, Capek's "Q", the Winkel tripel ranked ninth among a hundred map projections of the world, behind the common Eckert IV projection and Robinson projections. [6] In 1998, the Winkel tripel projection replaced the Robinson projection as the standard projection for world maps made by the National Geographic Society. [3]

7. Early world maps - Wikipedia

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   Hamatarats Ashkharhatsuyts (Geographic Map of the World), [53] was produced in 1695 in Amsterdam by the Armenian printing firm founded by Tovmas Vanandetsi . At the time, one of the most reliable maps of the two hemispheres was the first large-scale map drawn in Armenian. [54] The world map was created in a Western cartographic style. To ...

8. List of online map services - Wikipedia

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   Spanish official cartography website, including National Topographic Maps MTN50 (1:50,000 scale) and MTN25 (1:25,000 scale). [ 6 ] SITPA-IDEAS , Asturias regional maps.

9. Heinrich C. Berann - Wikipedia

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   He eventually painted about 20 maps for National Geographic including Mont Blanc (September 1965), five maps of the Leeward Islands (October 1966), Sky World of the Himalayas (October 1966), a map of the Pacific Ocean floor (October 1969), The Delta Project in the Netherlands (April 1968), Nepal (November 1971), and A Traveller's Map of the ...