I came to know the cartographer, artist and writer Tim Robinson, who has spent 40 years documenting the terrain of the west of Ireland: a region where, as he puts it, "the landscape … speaks Irish".
For many people today, that projection − invented by the Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569 − is the world map.
No map is completely objective and every cartographer has to make countless decisions over what is more important and what is less so.
Simultaneously, Annie gets close to Isabelle's husband, Eldon, a frustrated armchair cartographer who lets her into his fantasy world of polar exploration.
SOUNDING more like a cartographer than a central banker, Ben Bernanke this week showed off the Federal Reserve's latest gizmo for tracking America's property bust: maps that colour-code price declines, foreclosures and other gauges of housing distress for every county.
Google Maps suggests the journey can be done in 17 hours 9 minutes, which suggests to Baobab that Google's cartographer has not been to west Africa.
SinoMaps Press, the only national cartographer in China, has a mere 20 people in its electronic-mapping division.
The Dutch humanist Erasmus taught at the university; Mercator, the Flemish cartographer who projected the globe, learnt maths there.
SOUNDING more like a cartographer than a central banker, Ben Bernanke this week showed off the Federal Reserve's latest gizmo for tracking America's property bust: a series of maps that colour-code price declines, foreclosures and other gauges of housing distress for every county in the country.
The 16th-century cylindrical projection by Gerardus Mercator, a Flemish cartographer, makes life easier for navigators by keeping parallels and meridians as straight lines.
In "Purgatory" (2008), his last novel, an Argentine cartographer in suburban New Jersey senses that her husband has returned to her, no older than when he disappeared 30 years earlier.
