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Charles Ernest Riddiford was a British cartographer, who spent most of his career at the National Geographic magazine. [1] [2] He was noted for the elegant use of typography in his works, embraced the challenges of photocomposition and photographic reproduction, and recognised the subliminal impact of the medium on the way information is accepted.
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 ...
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)
National Geographic (formerly The National Geographic Magazine, [3] sometimes branded as Nat Geo [4]) is an American monthly magazine published by National Geographic Partners. [5] The magazine was founded in 1888 as a scholarly journal, nine months after the establishment of the society, but is now a popular magazine.
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".
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]
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
Cover of January 1915 The National Geographic Magazine. The National Geographic Magazine, later shortened to National Geographic, published its first issue in October 1888, nine months after the Society was founded, as the Society's official journal, a benefit for joining the tax-exempt National Geographic Society. Starting with the February ...