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MapCarte 30/365: Tourist Editions of the One Inch map by Ordnance Survey,...

By the middle of the twentieth century, developments in surveying, photogrammetry, cartographic reproduction and printing technology had modernised medium scale topographic mapping. Ordnance Survey’s...

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MapCarte 100/365: The Heart of the Grand Canyon by the National Geographic...

Bradford and Barbara Washburn were mountaineers, explorers and cartographers.  During an impressive career they were strongly supported by the National Geographic Society and many of Bradford...

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MapCarte 285/365: Lake Wakatipu by Simon Bardsley, 2014

Terrain representation is vital to good topographic cartography. It goes a long way to defining the look and feel of a map and has become a subset of cartographic expertise and practice that has...

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