Maps

Social Studies Review;  April 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......Haggett 1990 "So important is the use of maps in geographic work that... it seems fair...problem cannot be studied fundamentally by maps... then it is questionable whether or not...geographers organize and analyze information. Maps are also a powerful means of displaying...

Old look at New World // scholars tour history with 60,000 maps

Chicago Sun-Times;  January 1, 1989 ;     700+ words ...One of the most extraordinary maps ever made is a depiction of the New World...W. Walton, along with 60,000 other old maps ranging from the estates of English noblemen...turning point in the 4,000-year history of maps. Up to that point, mapmaking was as much...

The World Through Maps: a History of Cartography.

Cartography and Geographic Information Science;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...The World Through Maps: A History of Cartography by John Rennie...crafted book contains approximately 160 maps from ancient to present times that portray...world. It is a book of world history using maps as catalysts to illustrate how human perception...

Discover a new world with old maps.(Brief Article)

Kiplinger's Retirement Report;  September 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Whether you buy old maps to adorn your walls with the colors and techniques...homage to an ancestral homeland, collecting antique maps is an engaging and affordable hobby. THE LURE OF MAPS People collect old maps for all kinds of reasons: fascination...

LEWIS AND CLARK: The Maps of Exploration 1507-1814

Montana; The Magazine of Western History;  January 1, 2003 ;     526 words ...LEWIS AND CLARK The Maps of Exploration 1507-1814 Guy Menwether Benson with William...Howell Press, Charlottesville, Virginia, 2002. Illustrations, maps, index. 88 pp. $24.95. Maps have fascinated and informed humans for thousands of years...

Maps.com selects Maporama's Geocentric Solutions; Premier dynamic mapping...

M2 Presswire;  December 11, 2001 ;     700+ words ......PRESSWIRE-11 December 2001-Maporama: Maps.com selects Maporama's Geocentric Solutions...mapping via Maporama now available on Maps.com (C)1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:11122001 Santa Barbara, CA -- Maps.com, a leader in complete mapping solutions...

Crossing the divide: can geo-communication and maps form a society's...

GEO: connexion;  March 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...What is the role of maps and geo-information in a society? Are maps and geo-information formed by the society, or is it the opposite way round, maps and geo-information are forming the culture of society? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Are these questions...

Maps and Politics.(Review)

Journal of World History;  March 22, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Maps and Politics. By JEREMY BLACK. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. Pp. 188. $35 (cloth). Jeremy Black's Maps and History and Maps and Politics, published in the same year, convey the same general message--that maps are inherently nonobjective...

USING MAPS IN TEACHING CALIFORNIA HISTORY

Social Studies Review;  April 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Old maps are often interesting because of the stories they tell. Explorers used maps as shorthand for recording what they had discovered...lives depended on the degree of accuracy of their maps. Merchants liked to brag about where they traded...

FIRE INSURANCE MAPS PROVIDE DETAILS OF CITIES.(Life and Arts)

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  March 17, 2001 ;     426 words ...FIRE INSURANCE MAPS are invaluable to historians and genealogists...Collectively, they are commonly called Sanborn maps because the Sanborn Map Co., which was...produced more than 700,000 sheets of detailed maps for about 12,000 cities and towns in Canada...

Maps, ICT and history: A revolution in learning

Teaching History;  November 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......exciting new developments in digitalisation of maps which could transform pupils' work on continuity...this most under-used historical source. "Maps? That's the geography section you want...end up? In this article I will argue that maps are an important and powerful element in...

Exhibit ; X Marks The Spot; At the Smithsonian, The Hidden Treasure...

The Washington Post;  November 9, 1993 ;     700+ words ......many splendid displays in "The Power of Maps," a provocative exhibition opening today...intellectual contention. "Most of us tend to think maps are statements of fact, when in fact that...originated the exhibition. In other words, maps are as fallible as all human creations...

Maps to safeguard migrants might endanger them.

Sun (Yuma, AZ);  January 26, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Jan. 26--A plan to give illegal aliens maps to keep them alive in the deserts of Yuma...watch group. Consul Hugo Oliva said the maps the National Human Rights Commission plans...border-watch organization, says if bandits get the maps, they will know where to go to rob illegal...

Maps and History: Constructing Images of the Past.(Review)

Journal of World History;  March 22, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Maps and History: Constructing Images of the Past. By JEREMY BLACK. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1997. Pp. ix + 267. $35 (cloth). Jeremy Black's Maps and History and Maps and Politics, published in the same year, convey the same general message--that maps are inherently nonobjective...

Fed: Google lets users personalise their own maps

AAP General News (Australia);  April 5, 2007 ;     493 words ......Google lets users personalise their own maps By Sam Holmes, Technology Writer SYDNEY...net users wanting to customise their own maps for personal use and sharing on the web...launched a simple editing feature, known as My Maps, on its global mapping application that...