Browsing by Subject "maps"
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(Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, 1977)
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-04-12)The objective of my research is to identify and analyze the techniques of exaggeration, simplification, and abstraction used by caricature and cartoon artists. I apply these techniques to an expressive 3D modelling process ...
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(2018-09-27)
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(ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2006-02-14)This article discusses David Y. Allen, "The So-Called Velasco Map: A Case of Forgery?" (Coordinates, Series A, no. 5).
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(ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2005-10-05)This article reviews the recent history of journal publishing in the the fields of cartography, GIS, history of cartography, and related subjects. The impact of the Internet and Web-based publishing on cartographic journals ...
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(2016-05-05)The popularity of prediction games such as fantasy sports has been on the rise and the amount of data available for the players to make the prediction in such games is growing rapidly. Prediction games, an area of data ...
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(ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2008-06-03)his is a very short history of cartography. Notes and links to images are included at the end.
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(ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2010-05-24)Previous cartographic studies of the 1500 map by Juan de La Cosa have found substantial and difficult-to-explain errors in latitude, especially for the Antilles and the Caribbean coast. In this study, a mathematical ...
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(ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2005-08-29)This brief overview of the history of Martin Waldseemüller's 1507 map and its acquisition by the Library of Congress is presented as a complement to John Hessler's article, "Warping Waldseemüller: A Cartometric Study of ...
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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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(2014-05-17)Libraries and archives have large collections of historic maps and photos. Creative digital exhibits allow users a unique framework to these collections, with mapping platforms providing a spatial context to collections ...
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(ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2006-02-14)This article examines a well-known map of the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada allegedly made in or around 1610. The map was uncovered in the Spanish Archives at Simancas in 1887. Supposedly, it is a copy ...
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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 ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)Maps are the integral tool of geography. The importance of maps to geographic literacy is reflected in the National Geography Standards (Geography Education Implementation Project 1994): the first essential element, the ...
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(Texas Agricultural Extension Service, 1962)
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(Texas A&M University Libraries, 2017)Catalog of an exhibit held in the Cushing Memorial Library & Archives at Texas A&M University, February 10-October 10, 2017.