Browsing by Subject "history of cartography"
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(2009-05-15)The economic competition between the Netherlands, France and England is documented in the atlases published in Amsterdam, Paris and London between 1500 and 1800. However, the relationship between mapping and economic ...
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(ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2009-08-20)Google Earth is widely admired as one of the most advanced and powerful products of modern computerized cartography. It has been praised as a revolutionary new way of viewing the earth, as the first convincing attempt at ...
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(ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2007-04-11)The history of cartography has since the 1970s significantly expanded its disciplinary reach, its theoretical directions and approaches, and its scholarship. This annotated bibliography is intended as a guide to the extended ...
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(ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2006-09-25)Very few institutions offer introductory courses in the history of cartography. Distance learning is a way to make this type of course more widely available. This paper discusses the ways in which special collections ...