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  2. Cartography - Wikipedia

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    Whether woodcut or intaglio, the printed map is hung out to dry. Once dry, it is usually placed in another press to flatten the paper. Any type of paper that was available at the time could be used to print the map, but thicker paper was more durable. Both relief and intaglio were used about equally by the end of the fifteenth century.

  3. Typometry (printing) - Wikipedia

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    Typometric map of the region of Galicia (Eastern Europe) by Franz Raffelsperger (detail). Typometry was a short-lived relief printing technique developed during the 18th and 19th centuries to compose maps, drawings and other designs, using moveable type to reproduce words, lineworks and map symbols.

  4. Army Map Service - Wikipedia

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    The Army Map Service ... This involved the application of the UTM to over 10,000 different maps covering 400,000 square miles and the printing of over 90,000,000 copies.

  5. Mitchell Map - Wikipedia

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    The Mitchell Map. The Mitchell Map is a map made by John Mitchell (1711–1768), which was reprinted several times during the second half of the 18th century. The map, formally titled A map of the British and French dominions in North America &c., was used as a primary map source during the Treaty of Paris for defining the boundaries of the newly independent United States.

  6. History of cartography - Wikipedia

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    Specifically computer hardware devices such as computer screens, plotters, printers, scanners (remote and document) and analytic stereo plotters along with visualization, image processing, spatial analysis and database software, have democratized and greatly expanded the making of maps, particularly with their ability to produce maps that show ...

  7. Typography (cartography) - Wikipedia

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    This did not change with the advent of printing in the 15th Century, because the dispersed placement of the text did not lend itself to the use of Movable type. Instead, printed maps, including text, were drawn, engraved, and printed using the Intaglio or "copperplate" process. It was typical for the cartographer to not label the map himself ...

  8. Lithography - Wikipedia

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    "Lithography, or printing from soft stone, largely took the place of engraving in the production of English commercial maps after about 1852. It was a quick, cheap process and had been used to print British army maps during the Peninsular War. Most of the commercial maps of the second half of the 19th century were lithographed and unattractive ...

  9. Wikipedia : Online maps of the United States

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    Researching old maps and cartographic records at the National Archives; NASA World Wind overlays satellite, aerial and topographic maps of the United States; Google Earth: a visual 3D interactive atlas. Atlas World: a directory of atlases currently in print. List of official state road maps of the United States; Scanned official transportation ...

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