Cartography
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Square Eyes - Film Foundation Benefit Screenings...Randall Poster. FANTASTIC MR. FOX will be distributed worldwide by Twentieth Century Fox. Soundtrack Album is available on ABKCO Records. Cartography: Rarely Seen Early Maps On Show Scoop Books: What Witi Ihimaera Could Learn From Eliot In this article: Wes Anderson, Where the Wild Things Are, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Spike Jonze, New Zealand, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Where the Wild Things Are, and Roald Dahl |
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The Australian | 11 hours ago
Nearly Half of Kiwis Affected by Mental Illness
...contact your GP or Health Line on 0800 611 116. You can also visit www.mentalhealth.org.nz or www.movember.co.nz Ends- Cartography: Rarely Seen Early Maps On Show Scoop Books: What Witi Ihimaera Could Learn From Eliot The...
In this article: Mental Illness, Mental Health Foundation, Witi Ihimaera, New Zealand, Cardiovascular disease, Cancer, and Anxiety
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International Herald Tribune | 12 hours ago
Frugal Traveler: The Frugal Traveler's Holiday Gift Guide
...a sense of how truly varied and weird our planet is, take a look at Frank Jacobs's collection of cartographic anomalies, "Strange Maps: An Atlas of Cartographic Curiosities," ($19.80) which include everything from maps of Thomas More's...
In this article: TripIt, Atlas Mountains, Tokyo, New York, Cartographic, Waste, Thomas More, EBay, Utopia, and Ludacris
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Light Up Hospice For Christmas
...to be fundraised to ensure that we can continue to provide our services free of charge to the people of West Auckland. ends Cartography: Rarely Seen Early Maps On Show Scoop Books: What Witi Ihimaera Could Learn From Eliot The...
In this article: West Auckland, Witi Ihimaera, Kumeu, Massage, Acupuncture, Christmas Eve, and New Zealand
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Dive into the mesmerising world of Bill Viola
...and began a lifetime of collaborative projects. The couple currently live in California. For more information, www.billviola.com Cartography: Rarely Seen Early Maps On Show Scoop Books: What Witi Ihimaera Could Learn From Eliot The...
In this article: Bill Viola, National Gallery, Witi Ihimaera, New York, New Zealand, Tourcoing, France, J. Paul Getty Museum, and Christchurch
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Grant for University to Investigate Hearing Loss
...the study will be published in international peer-reviewed journals, and presented at national and international conferences. " Cartography: Rarely Seen Early Maps On Show Scoop Books: What Witi Ihimaera Could Learn From Eliot A...
In this article: Surgery, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, Microsurgery, University of Otago, and Witi Ihimaera
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Student Rep positions not safe despite assurances
...for strong leadership on this matter from the Minister," concluded Blair. Intriguing and rarely seen early maps, including the meticulous cartography of Abel Tasman's early discoveries and Captain Cook's explorations from the First and...
In this article: Witi Ihimaera, Abel Tasman, New Zealand, Jay Reatard, and Kurt Cobain
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Neatorama | 2 days ago
Map of Translated Place Names
Cartography blog Strange Maps has a map of the British Isles showing current place names translated into modern English. It's one from a collection known as The Atlas of True Names. You can view a larger image at the link. 8 comments to...
In this article: Pontefract, Blackpool, Pommes, England, British Isles, Dublin, and United States
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CNET News.com | November 16, 2009
Crowdsourcing cartography with PublicEarth and OpenStreetMap
...to help groups of "map buddies" coordinate their work. The MapZen/OpenStreetMap combo also lets you do very specific and modern cartography. There's a junction editor, for example, that lets contributors specify turn restrictions by time of...
In this article: PublicEarth, OpenStreetMap, Google, Netflix, CloudMade, Revenue, Wikipedia, and CNET
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Wired Top Stories | November 12, 2009
Nov. 13, 1460: Death Stills Henry the Navigator
...which resulted in Portugal colonizing the Madeira Islands, the Azores and the Canary Islands. All the while, he was employing cartographers to chart the growing Portuguese world, as well as funding the building of newer, faster ships to...
In this article: Henry the Navigator, E mail, Portugal, Canary Islands, Order of Christ, Gil Eannes, and Bartolomeu Dias
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BBC News | November 03, 2009
Ordnance Survey opens up data
...to its OS OpenSpaces dataset to a commercial client. OpenSpaces launched 18 months ago, enabling unprecedented access to Ordnance Survey cartography. It relies on javascript and is free for non-commercial clients. "There are limits on the...
In this article: Ordnance Survey
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right|thumb|250px|The oldest original cartographic artifact in the [[Library of Congress: a nautical chart of the Mediterranean Sea. Second quarter of the fourteenth century.]]
Cartography (in Greek chartis = map and graphein = write) is the study and practice of making geographical maps. Combining science, aesthetics, and technique, cartography builds on the premise that reality can be modeled in ways that communicate spatial information effectively.
The fundamental problems of cartography are to:
*Set the map's agenda and select traits of the object to be mapped. This is the concern of map editing. Traits may be physical, such as roads or land masses, or may be abstract, such as toponyms or political boundaries.
*Represent the terrain of the mapped object on flat media. This is the concern of map projections.
*Eliminate characteristics of the mapped object that are not relevant to the map's purpose. This is the concern of generalization.
*Reduce the complexity of the characteristics that will be mapped. This is also the concern of generalization.
*Orchestrate the elements of the map to best convey its message to its audience. This is the concern of map design.
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