The making of maps and charts

Usage examples of cartography.

Then there was also the fact that the waters of the Orinoco had never been reliably mapped, not even by the Spaniards, even though the best engineers from the School of Navigation and Cartography in Seville had been tramping through the Guianan forests for decades.

The means of reproducing and distributing copies of the many ancient maps which are scattered among the various libraries of Europe were then very imperfect, and the science of Comparative Cartography, of which the importance is now well recognised, was in its infancy.

The first edition of the Ptolemy Atlas, with the first set of maps ever produced by copper engraving, which appeared the following year, 1478, shows the interest that was taken at the time in connection with geography and cartography.

It was as informal now as any Orthean place of work, the tables piled with papers and broadsheets as well as tapes, graphs pinned to the wall-hangings beside old illuminated maps, haphazard cartography beside satellite-survey prints.

The various segments of the Cartographic Department first coalesced under the inspired leadership of Robert Tileson Landon, an almost unbelievably perceptive scholar who had been given total control of Cartography in 301 G.

Department of Cartography just didn't conjure up enough grandeur, and so the Pioneers had come up with their own term for it.

Who else would tell the Director of Cartography that he's off his rocker?

For the second time in galactic history, the Cartography complex at distant Caliban became the most important single factor in Man's expansion, but this time it was a more mature Man, a Man who knew the bitter aftertaste of expanding too rapidly, who began gathering his empire about him.

Then Cartography was asked to find a world approximating the atmospheric and gravitational conditions of Bareimus III.

They never thought of that at Caliban, and the Cartography complex is under continual repair and renovation.

Nechayev rose to her feet and began to pace the stellar cartography room, unable to watch the moment of truth on the viewscreen.

Captain Gris and Bleu were masters of camouflage and escape cartography.

This approach is thus still caught in the fundamental Enlightenment paradigm, which it alters by extending what the subject can experience (the cartographies of nonordinary experiences), but it does not examine the intersubjective space that supports and allows the particular subject and the particular experiences to arise in the first place.

And none of those processes make it into the "new paradigms," and none of them show up on Grof's extended cartographies of phenomenological experiences.

Basing his cartography on ancient sources now lost, the French academician depicted a clear waterway across the southern continent dividing it into two principal landmasses lying east and west of the line now marked by the Trans-Antarctic Mountains.