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Here be dragons – Phrase used on maps to indicate uncharted areas; History of Cartography Project – Publishing project in the Department of Geography at the University of Wisconsin–Madison; Early modern Iberian (Spanish and Portuguese) cartography
The most common purpose of a thematic map is to portray the geographic distribution of one or more phenomena. Sometimes this distribution is already familiar to the cartographer, who wants to communicate it to an audience, while at other times the map is created to discover previously unknown patterns (as a form of Geovisualization). [17]
Cartography or map-making is the study and practice of crafting representations of the Earth upon a flat surface [2] (see History of cartography), and one who makes maps is called a cartographer. Road maps are perhaps the most widely used maps today.
Map of Maximus Planudes (c. 1300), earliest extant realization of Ptolemy's world map (2nd century) Gangnido (Korea, 1402) Bianco world map (1436) Fra Mauro map (c. 1450) Map of Bartolomeo Pareto (1455) Genoese map (1457) Map of Juan de la Cosa (1500) Cantino planisphere (1502) Piri Reis map (1513) Dieppe maps (c. 1540s-1560s) Mercator 1569 ...
A medieval depiction of the Ecumene (1482, Johannes Schnitzer, engraver), constructed after the coordinates in Ptolemy's Geography and using his second map projection. The translation into Latin and dissemination of Geography in Europe, in the beginning of the 15th century, marked the rebirth of scientific cartography, after more than a millennium of stagnation.
The history of pictorial maps overlaps much with the history of cartography in general, [1] and ancient artifacts suggest that pictorial mapping has been around since recorded history began. In Medieval cartography, pictorial icons as well as religious and historical ideas usually overshadowed accurate geographic proportions.
The Gough Map, a road map of 14th-century Britain (from History of cartography) Image 16 Clay tablet with map of the Babylonian city of Nippur ( c. 1400 BC ) (from History of cartography ) Image 17 Al-Masudi 's world map (10th century) (from History of cartography )
Geography and Maps, an Illustrated Guide, by the staff of the US Library of Congress. The history of cartography at the School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St. Andrews, Scotland Antique Maps by Carl Moreland and David Bannister - complete text of the book, with information both on mapmaking and on mapmakers, including short ...