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Abraham Bradley's U.S. postal route map of 1804 Moule's map of the hundreds of Monmouthshire, c. 1831 A 1912 map of the Russian Empire by Yuly Shokalsky. Robert Aitken of Beith. born c. 1786; Carlo de Candia (1803–1862), Italian cartographer, created the large maritime map of Sardinia in 1: 250,000 scale, travel version.
Since we love map making for its clarity, Wikipedians developed several local cartographic styles over the years. Summary tables of each major map convention used in Wikipedia, across all languages. While the conventions are strongly recommended, cartographers are free to fit their specific needs.
The Forgotten Realms Interactive Atlas, published by TSR, Inc. in September 1999, was constructed using Campaign Cartographer. [1] [2] The developers created vector version of the published maps for the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting and included many new maps, including a globe of the entire Forgotten Realms world, Abeir-Toril. There have ...
J. R. R. Tolkien's design for his son Christopher's contour map on graph paper with handwritten annotations, of parts of Gondor and Mordor and the route taken by the Hobbits with the One Ring, and dates along that route, for an enlarged map in The Return of the King [5] Detail of finished contour map by Christopher Tolkien, drawn from his father's graph paper design.
He began to paint and draw in the making of maps, cartoons and paintings for his father. After their father's death, the sons renovated the building to use as a publishing and printing house. The brothers engaged in designing, and the creation of maps and globes. Five of the six sons were for a time active as a mapmaker.
Part of Tanner's 1822 map of North America, depicting the Pacific coast with fictive rivers that were assumed to exist at that time. Tanner's 1847 map of Africa. Henry Schenck Tanner (c. 1786–1858), was an American cartographer, born in New York City.
The Dymaxion map projection, also called the Fuller projection, is a kind of polyhedral map projection of the Earth's surface onto the unfolded net of an icosahedron. The resulting map is heavily interrupted in order to reduce shape and size distortion compared to other world maps , but the interruptions are chosen to lie in the ocean.
William Faden (1749–1836) was an English cartographer and a publisher of maps. [1] [2] [3] He was the royal geographer to King George III. He replaced Thomas Jefferys in that role. [4] The title of "geographer to the king" was given to various people in the 18th century, including John Senex, Herman Moll, Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Jeffreys ...