Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Atlas cartography


  
  Atlas (cartography) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Atlas was punished by Zeus and made to bear the weight of the heavens and earth on his back.
The second Atlas was King Atlas, a mythical King of Mauretania, in Libya.
It was this Atlas that Mercator was referring to when he first used the name 'Atlas', and he included a depiction of the King on the title-page.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Atlas   (664 words)

  
 Atlas (cartography) Information - TextSheet.com
The name "atlas" derives from the custom of adorning the cover or title page of such collections with a picture of the Atlas of Greek mythology holding the Earth on his shoulders.
The earliest atlas was Ptolemy's Geography of c.
The first modern atlas was issued by Abraham Ortelius on May 20, 1570.
www.medbuster.com /encyclopedia/a/at/atlas__cartography_.html   (117 words)

  
 Atlases. - Geography - What's Been Published
Atlas of exploration / foreword by John Hemming, director of the Royal Geographical Society.
Atlas of the 20th century / Richard Natkiel ; text by Donald Sommerville & John N. Westwood ; introduction by John Keegan.
The children's atlas of the 20th century : chart the century from World War I to the Gulf War and from "Teddy" Roosevelt to Nelson Mandela / by Sarah Howarth ; [maps, C. Oakes].
www.pitbossannie.com /rps-g-atlases.html   (1761 words)

  
 Atlas (cartography) - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Facsimile-Atlas to the Early History of Cartography With Reproductions of the Most Important Maps Printed in the XV and XVI Centuries
Atlas of Early Maps of the Midwest (Scientific papers / Illinois State Museum)
Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States (Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication, 401.)
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /atlas_(cartography).htm   (681 words)

  
 Atlas (cartography)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
An atlas is a collection of map s, traditionally bound into book form, but also found in multimedia formats, such as on CD-ROM.
The name "atlas" derives from the traditional custom of adorning the cover or title page of such collections with a picture of the Atlas of Greek mythology holding the Earth on his shoulders.
The earliest atlas was Ptolemy 's Geography of c.
www.purpleuniverse.com /true_associate-Atlas_(cartography).html   (160 words)

  
 Ferjan Ormeling's Homepage
As such he is responsible for the post-graduate cartography programme at Utrecht University (the only dutch language one in the Netherlands).
More immediate concerns are the extension of the National Atlas of the Netherlands website and to assist in the development of cartography course material for the web, which has been started up by William Cartwright, David Fraser and Gita Pupedis at the Department of Geospatial Science of RMIT.
Ferjan has been on the editorial board of the First (1961-1980) and Second (1981-1990) edition of the National Atlas of the Netherlands (Atlas van Nederland) and is presently secretary of the Foundation for the Scientific Atlas of the Netherlands that publishes the atlas.
cartography.geog.uu.nl /ormeling   (653 words)

  
 GEMILANG 131: Atlases, Cartography, Maps & Plans
being the compendium to the atlas with num.
According to the preface the atlas of the Indonesian Archipelago is only slightly revised, as the political constellation of Indonesia was not yet clear, the world-atlas, incl.
The objective of this Atlas, according to author's introduction, is to inform pupils on the dutch territories of the Antilles and Suriname, and their [trade] connections with neighbouring Caribbean countries and Islands (:) Venezuela, Colombia, Central America, Cuba, Jamaica, Dominican republic, Puerto Rico and the smaller Caribbean Islands.
www.antiquariaten.com /gemilang/catalogs/c00695.htm   (13771 words)

  
 Atlas of Lower Silesia
One of the atlas objectives is ecological education based on the knowledge of features and elements of environment in a particular stage of synanthropisation and anthropopression.
The atlas is furthermore designed as an instrument of extra-school education to be used by institutions involved in ecological and historical-geographical education.
The issues concerning regional cartography of the Polish-German border as well as those connected with introduction of new technologies and computers in the process of map editing have been of particular interest to both centres.
www.uni.wroc.pl /JEDNOSTKI/ATLAS-E.HTM   (427 words)

  
 Presented Papers
He is a member of the editorial board of the national atlas of the Netherlands and chief editor of Kartografisch Tijdschrift, journal of the Netherlands Cartographic Society.
He participated in the edition of the map sheets of the Atlas of the Danubian Countries and he was a member of the Editorial Board of the National Atlas of Hungary (1983).
is professor of cartography at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest.
lazarus.elte.hu /hun/buszke/visegrad/papers.htm   (1372 words)

  
 Sümeghy-Danku: IDENTIFYING AN UNDESCRIBED DANCKERTS ATLAS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Atlas comprising maps between 50 and 60 (as 74-90 in the case of group 4).
Atlas with 50 sheets can form a separate group (as atlas of 26 items and of 30 items forms a detached class), so the system must be enlarged to 6 groups in this case.
Their officinas were dominating in the field of geographical atlas production and had an almost total monopoly on the market of atlases during the century till ca.
www.sci.u-szeged.hu /eghajlattan/akta99/SumeghyZ/SumeghyZ.html   (4880 words)

  
 Narrating the Past: Maps in Historical Atlases
Its appearance was an important aspect of the globalization of the historical atlas, which has interacted with an intellectual critique of Eurocentricity [9] and a call for a greater mapping of non-political topics.
The back cover makes no reference to this being an atlas: instead it is presented as “the most important new edition of the most successful history of the world ever published.” The introduction has little to say about cartography, the maps, or their limitations, or how best to relate the maps in the book.
If one of the purposes of historical cartography is to pin down generalizations precisely in space, then it is still the case that historical research skills are at a premium and that lacunae evidence can have a serious impact on any mapping process.
www.fpri.org /orbis/4702/black.mappingpast.html   (6483 words)

  
 3CRR Atlas:Cartography
For this Atlas, we only wanted to give one display of each object, so we need a display method which shows both the bright and faint structure at the same time.
In the Atlas, we have chosen images which strike a good balance between resolution and sensitivity; we also include a few "supplementary" images with high resolution but poor sensitivity.
This has pretty much been done for the Atlas images; in the few cases when artifacts are still obvious we mention this in the comments on the Main Page.
www.jb.man.ac.uk /atlas/cartography.html   (2241 words)

  
 Cartography
Amiran, D.H.K., Shachar, A., and Kimhi, I. Atlas of Jerusalem.
Brawer, M., and Karmon, Y. Atlas and Regional Geography of the Middle East.
Soffer, A., and Kipnis, B. Atlas of Haifa and Mount Carmel.
www.bgu.ac.il /NCRD/bib1/val/Cartography.htm   (1225 words)

  
 Cartography/maps
The History of Cartography Project - The History of Cartography Project is a research, editorial, and publishing venture drawing international attention to the history of maps and mapping.
Cartography is not immune to this and in fact, cartography is thriving because of this.
The high quality cartography was recognized by the British Cartographical Society and received an award for excellence in cartography and design in 1988.
publish.uwo.ca /~mcdaniel/weblinks/carto.html   (4069 words)

  
 Ortelius Atlas
One of the most valuable components of the atlas collection is the numerous editions of the revolutionary mapbook Theatrum Orbis Terrarum by Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598), a Flemish scholar and geographer.
Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theatre of the World) is considered the first true atlas in the modern sense: a collection of uniform map sheets and sustaining text bound to form a book for which copper printing plates were specifically engraved.
The Ortelius atlas is sometimes referred to as the summary of sixteenth-century cartography.
memory.loc.gov /ammem/gmdhtml/gnrlort.html   (1571 words)

  
 French Cartography
The first printed national Atlas of the French provinces, the equivalent of Saxton's Atlas of the Counties of England and Wales, was produced in Tours in 1594 by Maurice Bouguereau, a printer and publisher, during the period of the Court's 'exile' there.
The Atlas was not based on a general survey in the Saxton sense but was a collection of maps of different parts of the country made in earlier years and already produced by Ortelius and Mercator in their own atlases: it included only three maps published for the first time.
Perhaps it is not surprising that this was the first national atlas published in France; printing there had a chequered historv in the sixteenth century and such was the religious intolerance that, at one stage, it was regarded as a form of heresy to the extent that printers were burnt at the stake.
www.bentleys.co.za /frenchcart.html   (5608 words)

  
 Dept. of Geography & Environmental Studies/Faculty Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Cartography is primarily a visual discipline; however, multimedia and multisensory approaches using all of the senses are beginning to be explored.
At the same time, cartography is moving from a situation where cartographic products are dominated by the suppliers (usually the national mapping agencies) to one where users will be able to create their own maps online from central spatial databases (Rhind, 1998).
Researchers from cartography, language and literary studies, film studies, music and psychology in the areas of Navigational and Situational Awareness and Multi-sensory research are primarily Context- oriented.
www.carleton.ca /geography/geography/Taylor_research.html   (8774 words)

  
 Hammond Map: Part of the American Map Publishing Group
Welcome to Hammond Map, of the world's premier map and atlas publisher offering world atlases and maps to fit every need and preference from vivid 50" x 38" wall maps to geography and history atlases for home or classroom use.
Hammond World Atlas is one of many brands in the American Map - Langenscheidt Publishing Group.
In the Scholastic New Headline World Atlas, political boundaries are clearly distinguished with contrasting bands of pleasing color, making countries easy to identify.
www.hammondmap.com   (104 words)

  
 STATLAS - Statistical Atlas of the European Union   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In the early 1970's the division of cartography was founded within the department of geography and builds today one of its major cornerstones.
The division of cartography has evolved around cartography and GIS to become a modern unity dealing with aspects of representation, communication and web-based applications.
The major areas of education and scientific work within the division of cartography are to be seen in topographic and thematic mapping, map related representations, GIS, cartographic DB- management, remote sensing and cartographic communication.
www.statlas.org /consortium/partners.htm   (1190 words)

  
 atlas cartography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Atlas of Canada Web site has been re-structured You will be automatically transferred to the new Site Map in five seconds or you can use this link to transfer now.
From basic cartography to an online project to an interactive glossary tool and much more, the Atlas of Canada is more than just maps.
Welcome to an Atlas of Napoleonic Cartography in Italy This web atlas is a pilot project designed to show the number and variety of manuscript maps surviving from the Napoleonic War period and...
www.shading.be /5878-atlascartography-39200.html   (288 words)

  
 EQ Atlas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Note that this is not the same as the cartography maps that you use with the in-game LoY interface.
I've added in a new Cartography Section for you to be able to download text files for the new expansion's zone.
Friday brought the announcement of the new cartography system that will be going in with the Legacy of Ykesha expansion.
www.eqatlas.com   (1226 words)

  
 publications
-Proceedings of the Sessions on Teaching the History of Cartography IV and V 'Continuing Education in Cartography' held in Lisbon and Athens during the 17th and 18th International Conferences on the History of Cartography in 1997 and 1999.
The Teaching the History of Cartography series are bestsellers, as are the Madrid and Visegrad ones.
Eindrapport van de ad-hoc commissie voor de evaluatie van een derde editie van de Atlas van Nederland (Final report on the desirability of a third edition of the national atlas of the Netherlands), uitgebracht in opdracht van de Stichting Wetenschappelijke Atlas van Nederland.
cartography.geog.uu.nl /ormeling/publikat.html   (2536 words)

  
 Cartography Tool Maps -- EQ Atlas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
These correspond to the layers that you see at the right of your cartography window.
Since they are text files, it doesn't really matter what they are named, you could change the names, as long as you follow the format, to make them show up in different layers if you wished.
Hopefully someone will make one soon, but just be careful of what you add.
www.eqatlas.com /cartography.html   (272 words)

  
 Atlas coelestis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The celestial cartography is a grand synthesis of myth, art and science, that has accompanied all the development of the human civilization.
In particular, across the Modern Age, for over three centuries, cartographers and astronomers have been able to conciliate the increasing demand of scientific exactness and the taste of the symbolic and artistic representation of the starry sky, and have produced the most beautiful books ever published.
In these pages we would guide the readers in a short visit through the atlases, preserved in the Library of Dipartimento di Astronomia di Bologna and in private collections, that have countersigned this golden era.
www.bo.astro.it /~biblio/atlas/atlas-in.htm   (184 words)

  
 Maps & Cartography
the history of cartography), and the activities associated with it, form the subject of this regularly updated web-page.
Atlas historique de l'Antiquité tardive (Denis Bellemare) Ancient World 380-540 A.D. Cartographic Images (Jim Seibold) Ancient through Renaissance.
Maps of the Pimería: Early Cartography of the Southwest (Univ. of Arizona)
www.cisi.unito.it /stor/stor/Maps.htm   (942 words)

  
 Home Page
This web atlas is a pilot project designed to show the number and variety of manuscript maps surviving from the Napoleonic War period and the value of internet technology for their analysis, dissemination, and use.
Left clicking on the mouse will take you deeper into the atlas, either within the same window or by opening a new window.
Within the main part of the atlas and within the new windows you can also navigate by using the back and forward keys in your web browser.
www.geog.queensu.ca /napoleonatlas   (235 words)

  
 Teachers and parents: web resources relating to early maps
Amazon.com [just select 'Books' and copy the ISBN into the search box without dashes or spaces], should retrieve details about the book concerned.
Maps & Cartography -- Children / K-12 Level (a listing of recent books, by Jack Mount).
Newberry Library, The Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography: 'Developing Cartographic Literacy with Historic Maps'.
www.maphistory.info /teachers.html   (1302 words)

  
 Proceedings
Contents 1 of the Proceedings of the Seminar on Teaching the Interface between Cartography, Remote Sensing and GIS, held at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, August 1989.
Contents 4 of the Proceedings of the seminar on Teaching the History of Cartography II, held at the Newberry Library, Chicago, June 23, 1993.
Contents 11 of the Proceedings of the Session on Teaching Cartography and GIS for Environmental Mapping, held during Intercarto IV, Barnaul, June 1998.
lazarus.elte.hu /cet/proc.htm   (3050 words)

  
 Classical Atlas Project
The Barrington Atlas, created by the Classical Atlas Project (now, the Ancient World Mapping Center), is a reference work of permanent value.
The atlas was published in September 2000; pre-publication orders have already being shipped.
The Classical Atlas Project web site (this page) remains available on the web for historical reasons, but it will not be updated in the future.
www.unc.edu /depts/cl_atlas   (455 words)

  
 National Atlas home page
The pages in this atlas are here on the Internet whenever you need them.
Normally we'd use this space on the home page of the National Atlas to highlight a few new maps or stories in this issue.
Instead, we're urging all Americans to support legitimate efforts to aid their neighbors who were devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
www.nationalatlas.gov   (367 words)

  
 Map Room - New Acquisitions - January - March 2003
TITLE Encyclopedic world atlas / [cartography by Philip's] EDITION 6th ed.
CALL # G1116.S1 Z8 2001 AUTHOR Zuehlke, Mark, 1955- TITLE The Canadian military atlas : the nation's battlefields from the French and Indian wars to Kosovo / text by Mark Zuehlke and maps by C. Stuart Daniel.
CALL # G1201.S1 H5 2003 TITLE Historical atlas of the United States / [edited by] Mark C. Carnes ; cartography, Malcolm A. Swanston.
library.osu.edu /sites/maps/Jan-Mar2003.html   (3592 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.