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  Encyclopedia: Cartographer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Cartography is the study of map making and cartographers are map makers.
Ptolemy, (Ptolemaic Egypt, Greece, circa 85 - circa 165), astronomer, cartographer, geographer
Abraham Ortelius, (Belgium, 1527 _ 1598), Belgian cartographer
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Cartographer   (153 words)

  
 Surveyors, cartographers, photogrammetrists, and surveying technicians
Cartographers collect, analyze, and interpret both spatial data—such as latitude, longitude, elevation, and distance—and nonspatial data—for example, population density, land-use patterns, annual precipitation levels, and demographic characteristics.
Cartographers and photogrammetrists usually have a bachelor’s degree in a field such as engineering, forestry, geography, or a physical science.
Overall employment of surveyors, cartographers, photogrammetrists, and surveying technicians is expected to grow about as fast as the average for all occupations through the year 2012.
www.bls.gov /oco/ocos040.htm   (2683 words)

  
 GEES SC Support Event Cartographer Summary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
On behalf of the committee of the Society of Cartographers the chair agreed to consider whether short CPD courses could be developed, perhaps delivered by "experts" in the group, and perhaps on a regionalised basis.
Tim Aspden presented a session on the 'Changing Role of the Cartographic Unit', particularly with the decline in traditional cartographic work from academics and researches and the reduction in the number of GEES departments teaching cartographic methods to their undergraduate students.
Tim highlighted the need for cartographic staff to identify the requirements of staff and students, course content and developments within the institution and to ensure that staff receive or seek training opportunities to meet these requirements.
www.gees.ac.uk /pastevents/supp04/cartwriteup.htm   (1579 words)

  
 CIA Careers: Professional: View All Positions: Cartographer-Entry Level   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Motivated individuals who want to be part of world's premier intelligence organization are needed as CIA Cartographers to produce thematic maps for a variety of publications, briefings, reference products, and the Internet.
Cartographers research, compile and maintain fully digital cartographic databases.
Strong cartographic skills, a geographic background, and the desire to produce high-quality maps in a fast-moving and flexible environment are required.
www.cia.gov /employment/jobs/cartographer_entry.html   (246 words)

  
 Physics and Cartography
It seems that Ptolemy (we also know him for his geocentric vision of the world) was not really a cartographer but his data have helped to produce the very first maps which were distributed.
Certainly the most famous cartographer, he owes his reputation to the projection which bears his name and also to both the quality and quantity of his production.
Ortelius was the cartographer of Philip II of Spain and he produced his "Theatrum orbis terrarum" in 1570 (15 years before the atlas of Mercator).
perso.wanadoo.fr /didier.hottois/cartography.htm   (1055 words)

  
 WomenGamers.Com - Because Women DO Play   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Additionally, since I wanted to focus on one specific area of the world (the place that I intend to begin the campaign), I used FT to zoom in on that area and then exported a second map as well.
The setting is an old family tomb on the outskirts of the old part of the city, and the map shows the layout and interesting features that the adventures will find inside.
This set of tools is definitely an equal opportunity intimidator, and a wonderful boon to world crafters in all their guises.
www.womengamers.com /revprev/adv/campaigncartographer.html   (1491 words)

  
 Herman Moll geographer
Dennis Reinhartz is the author of The Cartographer and the Literari: "Herman Moll and His Intellectual Circle" and a professor of history and Russian who teaches courses on the history of discovery, exploration, and cartography at the University of Texas at Arlington, (see Lewiston /Queenston /Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 1997).
The cartographer eventually became part of a number of impressive circles that gathered regularly at London coffeehouses and which included, among others, the scientist Robert Hooke, the writers Daniel Defoe (Robinson Crusoe) and Jonathan Swift (Gullivers Travels), the buccaneers William Dampier and Woodes Rogers, and the field archeologist and antiquarian Rev. Dr.
The cartographer eventually became part of a number of impressive circles that gathered regularly at London coffeehouses and which included, among others, the scientist Robert Hooke (1635-1703), the writers Daniel Defoe (1660?-1731) and Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), the buccaneers William Dampier (1651-1715) and Woodes Rogers (1679?-1732), and the field archeologist and antiquarian Rev. Dr.
www.euronet.nl /users/warnar/hermanmollmap.html   (4409 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - John White, artist, cartographer, Virginia pioneer (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - John White, artist, cartographer, Virginia pioneer (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
John White, artist, cartographer, Virginia pioneer, U.S. History, Biographies
In 1585 he was commissioned to go with the expedition to Roanoke Island to depict life in the New World.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/W/White-J2.html   (202 words)

  
 Cartographer puts Baghdad on the map (eng, NZZ Online)
Swiss cartographer Arne Rohweder has produced an updated map of central Baghdad, featuring palaces and buildings that were bombed or looted during the war.
Rohweder says the map is designed to serve tourists, residents, journalists, military personnel and those involved in rebuilding the city.
The cartographer, who specialises in panorama, tourist and road maps, says he has already sold more than 1,500 copies of the updated version.
www.nzz.ch /2005/03/19/eng/article5460554.html   (467 words)

  
 Inventix Software: Makers of Internet Cartographer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
We are pleased to announce the release of version 2.0 of Internet Cartographer, bringing added stability, enhanced graphics and new data exploration capabilities to our customers.
Internet Cartographer will help you to chart a course through the web, understand where you have been and how the sites you have explored relate to one another.
Click here to download Internet Cartographer 2.0.1 for Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000 and XP with Internet Explorer 4+, Netscape Communicator 4+ and/or Opera 3.51.
www.inventix.com   (654 words)

  
 Encyclopedia of New Jersey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Marc Mappen is the executive director of the New Jersey Historical Commission and author of Jerseyana: The Underside of New Jersey History.
Michael Siegel is staff cartographer in the Rutgers Geography Department.
He has been running the Cartography Laboratory and teaching undergraduate cartography courses in the Geography Department since 1988.
www.scc.rutgers.edu /njencyclopedia   (407 words)

  
 The British Cartographic Society: Home Page
The British Cartographic Society (The B.C.S.) is a dynamic association of individuals and organisations dedicated to exploring and developing the world of maps.
Membership includes Mapping companies, publishers, designers, academics, researchers, map curators, individual cartographers, GIS specialists and ordinary members of the public with an interest in maps.
The B.C.S. is regarded as one of the world's leading cartographic societies and its main publication, The Cartographic Journal is recognised internationally.
www.cartography.org.uk   (262 words)

  
 Uru - Guild of Cartographers
The Guild of Researchers is attempting to recover place and building names, among their other heroic efforts.
The Cartographers are applying available names to maps and publishing them in an attempt to simplify describing locations and avoid confusion.
The Single player game continues, the Cartographers Guild continues and most fans still love the Myst series of games.
www.cates-associates.net /uru   (443 words)

  
 Revolutionary War Maps
The Library of Congress has recently acquired six rare manuscript maps that were drawn by Michel Capitaine du Chesnoy, the skilled cartographer who served as the Marquis de Lafayette's aide-de-camp during the American Revolutionary War.
Idealistic and just 19 years old when he arrived in America in 1777 to assist his hero George Washington in the battle for liberty, Lafayette was accompanied by the talented Capitaine who served as his aide-de-camp.
Only 18 original Capitaine manuscript maps are known to exist: the six that have been purchased by the Library of Congress; six maps held by five different institutions in the United States; and six additional copies in Europe.
www.loc.gov /today/pr/2000/00-028.html   (533 words)

  
 From Ultraverse... Shawn Brown: Freelance Artist and Cartographer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
That's the sort of question Brown hopes viewers will ask themselves when they come across this map in his cartography portfolio.
There are far fewer creative cartographers like Brown, and they are more comparable to artists and illustrators.
His latent interest and considerable artistic skill blossomed into a hobby and eventually a full-time job.
www.ultraverse.us /2004_05/v1i4brown.shtml   (636 words)

  
 Mauritius Classic Stamps
Mauritius is shown the first time on the Map of the Indian Ocean, ca 1519, by the Portuguese Cartographer Jorge Reinel (1502-after 1572).
The french National Library is home to a collection of maps known as the Miller Atlas.
Despite the misleading name, the maps are actually of Portuguese origin and attributed to Lopo Homen, the King’s official cartographer in the first decades of the XVI century (1519).
www.stampsmauritius.com   (639 words)

  
 Gallery puts cartographer's art on the map, too - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper
Blaise Domino is best-known in Hawai'i for his Map of the Sandwich Isles — the best-selling image in the 17-year history of Pictures Plus, says company owner Kent Untermann.
The historical cartographer of Diamond Head was once a hippie from San Francisco, however, and he has the psychedelic art to prove it.
Domino, 62, will showcase dozens of his works at an exhibit, "Moments of Becoming," Friday through May 19 at the Law Office of Tony Serra gallery in San Francisco.
the.honoluluadvertiser.com /article/2004/Mar/17/il/il03a.html   (287 words)

  
 Gothamist: The Ethicist As Literary Cartographer of Manhattan
Gothamist: The Ethicist As Literary Cartographer of Manhattan
NY Times Ethicist Randy Cohen announces to readers (Gothamist assumes he means all NY Times readers, though he just mentions "Book Review" readers) that he wants their suggestions to make a literary map of Manhattan, places where literary characters walked, brooded, or traipsed.
You may search the Gothamist archives, or browse by category or date.
www.gothamist.com /archives/2005/04/26/the_ethicist_as_literary_cartographer_of_manhattan.php   (449 words)

  
 Office of the Cartographer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Herein you will find maps depicting the official boundaries of cantons, shires, provinces, baronies, and regions of the Middle Kingdom.
From there you can click on the region map to obtain more information about a particular group.
Over the coming months I will be adding other cartographic information to this site.
www.dragonscaleconsort.com /cartography   (108 words)

  
 1915 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The first stop sign appears in Detroit, Michigan.
January 5 - Arthur H. Robinson, American geographer and cartographer (d.
January 14 - Mark Goodson, American television game show producer (d.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1915   (1769 words)

  
 Freelance Traveller - The Shipyard - Drawing Deckplans With Campaign Cartographer 2 Pro   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Sometimes I hear people say on the internet how they wish there was a manual or outline of instructions on how to draw Traveller deckplans.
Some of these people have Campaign Cartographer 2 Pro, the software I use.
Use of the trademark on this page is not intended to infringe upon or devalue the trademark.
www.freelancetraveller.com /features/shipyard/cc2deckplans.html   (4600 words)

  
 Mapping out a new geography of sound: My Morning Jacket plays aural cartographer on the impeccable Z - The Daily Utah ...
Mapping out a new geography of sound: My Morning Jacket plays aural cartographer on the impeccable Z
If the whole rock 'n' roll thing doesn't pan out for the members of My Morning Jacket, natives of Louisville, Ky., they can always fall back on careers as aural cartographers.
However, if My Morning Jacket's newest release, Z, is any indicator, front man Jim James and Co. ought not to have any worry about their current day job faltering any time soon-this is one of the finest records released in the past five years.
www.dailyutahchronicle.com /news/2005/10/11/AE/Mapping.Out.A.New.Geography.Of.Sound.My.Morning.Jacket.Plays.Aural.Cartographer-1016539.shtml   (804 words)

  
 Amorphous Blob Games Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
We add more to the site all the time, so come back often, to see what we have changed.
All the maps we have were built with Campaign Cartographer 2.
Please send any comments (good or bad) to us.
www.abgames.com   (502 words)

  
 The Casual Cartographer - Free GIS Newsletter September 1998
John Snyder was one of, if not the leading authority on map projections.
When trying to convert a coordinate, I got a message saying a file named NTV2_0.GSB could not be found.
We will ONLY use your name/email address for The Casual Cartographer.
www.mentorsoftwareinc.com /cc/cc0998.htm   (249 words)

  
 POSTAPRINT SITE INDEX: Antique maps prints and illustrated books. Atlases. Early geography and travel.
MIGEON J - Mid/Late 19th century maps, many with attractive vignettes by this French Cartographer.
BLAEU - The Blaeu family where the foremost cartographers of the 17th Century.
Apart from the prolific numbers of Maps and Sea Charts produced, they raised cartography to an art form - embellishing their maps with highly decorative Cartouches and attractive features.
www.antiquemapsandprints.com /page0.htm   (3628 words)

  
 ProFantasy User's Pages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
These pages are provided as a service to the users of Campaign Cartographer©, Campaign Mapper©, Dungeon Designer©, City Designer©, and other mapping tools provided by the fine folks at ProFantasy.
Here, you will be afforded the opportunity to share your efforts with others, as well as be provided with access to those of other users.
Email inquires to: webmaster@dfxwebs.com, and please include the nature of your request.
dfxwebs.com /profant.html   (512 words)

  
 MapsandMore.com
For those who do not make use of Campaign Cartographer 2 Pro, this is a convenient way to use them in the drawing/mapping program of their choice.
The pack contains all symbols from the three DF symbol catalogs - that's 371 in total - and each comes in four different file formats for ease of use.
All maps and cartography symbols on this site were drawn with Campaign Cartographer 2 by ProFantasy Software Ltd.
www.mapsandmore.com   (417 words)

  
 index1
This site will deal with maps made with Campaign Cartographer 2 and City Designer 2.
Also, you will find information about the World of Tarumar and in particular the Kendror Region.
All maps and images found on this site were done with Campaign Cartographer 2 and no other program.(except the two dragons!)
www.geocities.com /jdobritt/index1.html   (63 words)

  
 The Cartographer's Hall [ Realm & Provinces Discussion / OOC ]
The Cartographer's Hall [ Realm & Provinces Discussion / OOC ]
> The Cartographer's Hall [ Realm & Provinces Discussion / OOC ]
The Cartographer's Hall [ Realm and Province Discussion /
pub63.ezboard.com /farchaea91833frm17   (398 words)

  
 CartoTalk (Powered by Invision Power Board)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Post your map designs here and get feedback from other cartographers.
This section is moderated so new postings will be reviewed before becoming active.
Post resume here if you are looking for cartography or GIS related work.
www.cartotalk.com   (474 words)

  
 On the Trail of Maine’s Ice Age
The idea of Maine’s Downeast Ice Age Trail has already generated interest from state agencies, local organizations and Maine’s congressional delegation.
Mike Hermann, a cartographer at the Canadian-American Center at UMaine, is developing a map showing 32 possible roadside sites of interest.
The project is featured in Hiking America’s Geology, an illustrated book published by the National Geographic Society.
www.umainetoday.umaine.edu /Issues/v3i4/iceage.html   (1002 words)

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