There’s nothing Matthew Edney enjoys talking about more than maps. And, as director of the History of Cartography Project at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, his passion for maps and proclivity ...

After 40 years of work, the History of Cartography project is coming to a close. But with evolving modern technology and cultural perceptions about maps, UW researchers claim cartographers’ work is ...

A View from America: Map Collecting, 'Treasure-House' Libraries, and American Civic Influences on the History of Cartography A View from America: Map Collecting, 'Treasure-House' Libraries, and ...

Science: Ptolemy's 'Geography, ' c. AD 150 -- Exchange: Al-Idrīsī, AD 1154 -- Faith: Hereford 'Mappamundi, ' c. 1300 -- Empire: Kangnido World Map, 1402 ...

In this age of all things digital, it’s heartening to see that some aspects of human history are still best accessed via old fashioned cartography. That is, through what most of us would call maps --- ...

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Embedded within a four-decade-long endeavor to document the history of cartography is a deceptively simple question: What is a map? In a world where most people interact with maps almost daily, ...

Mapping the world is one of humanity's most enduring passions, something we've done with varying degrees of success for over a thousand years. Short, a geography professor at the University of ...

Discover what the study of maps is called, how cartography evolved from ancient times to GPS, and the essential techniques used in modern map-making today. Maps present complex geographical data in a ...

If you have ever found yourself asking what the name of the individual responsible for making the maps is, then the answer is right here, a cartographer. Cartographers are experts who design maps and ...