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MapQuest offers online, mobile, business and developer solutions that help people discover and explore where they would like to go, how to get there and what to do along the way and at your destination.
Geographia was founded in 1911 by Alexander Gross (1879 – March 23, 1958), a native of Austria-Hungary who had established Geographia, Ltd, a commercial map publisher located at No. 55 Fleet Street in London.
Albert Frank Shields (June 26, 1908 – July 1, 1974) [1] [2] was an American mechanical engineer who is best known for his derivation of the formula for determining the beginning of movement of sand and gravel in currents (incipient motion).
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The Libre Map Project is an online collection of all digital USGS 1:24K scale topographic maps (as well as various other GIS data) covering the United States, available as a free download. History [ edit ]
George Franklin Cram (1842-1928) was an American map publisher. He served in the U.S. Army during the American Civil War as a first sergeant in Company F of the 105th Illinois Volunteers serving until the end of the war. [1] Upon mustering out he then joined his uncle Rufus Blanchard's Evanston map business in 1867.
His younger brother Leonard had joined his party travelling to Western Australia, but became ill and died at Roebourne while Albert was journeying to the interior. The Australian Dictionary of Biography (1979) noted he was born on 20 July 1872 at Kentish Town , Middlesex, England, son of Frederick Calvert, mining engineer, and his wife Grace.
Hagstrom also produced the "redlining" maps of New York City in 1938. [9] From 1941 to 2002, all of Hagstrom's New York City maps were based on a single master map that was updated by hand. This produced a number of other visual artifacts; new streets and neighborhoods had to be shoehorned into layouts designed around previously existing features.