earliest cartographic depictions ofAfrica are found in early world maps. In classical antiquity, Africa (also Libya) was assumed to cover the quarter of the...
Cartography (/kɑːrˈtɒɡrəfi/; from Ancient Greek: χάρτης chartēs, 'papyrus, sheet of paper, map'; and γράφειν graphein, 'write') is the study and practice...
history ofcartography refers to the development and consequences ofcartography, or mapmaking technology, throughout human history. Maps have been one of the...
media related to Maps of Europe. History of Cartography Geography of Europe Cartographyof Asia CartographyofAfrica Boundaries between continents v t e...
The cartographyof Asia can refer to the representation of Asia on a map, or to depictions of the world by cartographers from Asia. Depictions of portions...
African map may refer to: CartographyofAfrica Cyrestis camillus, the African map butterfly This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the...
Geil Kazimierz Nowak Saharan explorers List of European colonies in AfricaCartographyofAfrica Age of Discovery Alan B. Lloyd, Herodotus, Book II (1975...
The International Cartographic Association (ICA) (French: Association Cartographique Internationale, ACI) is an organization formed of national member organizations...
The cartographyof India begins with early charts for navigation and constructional plans for buildings. Indian traditions influenced Tibetan and Islamic...
popularise the concept of the atlas as a collection of maps. Cartography or map-making is the study and practice of crafting representations of the Earth upon...
Southeast Asia and Southern Africa. Various Islamic scholars contributed to the development of geography and cartography, with the most notable including...
The cartographyof the United States is the history of surveying and creation of maps of the United States. Maps of the New World had been produced since...
Chinese cartography began in the 5th century BC during the Warring States period when cartographers started to make maps of the Earth's surface. Its scope...
Critical cartography is a set of mapping practices and methods of analysis grounded in critical theory, specifically the thesis that maps reflect and perpetuate...
The cartographyof Switzerland is the history of surveying and creation of maps of Switzerland. Switzerland has had its current boundaries since 1815,...
context of "ecumenical" and describes the Christian Church as a unified whole, or the unified modern world civilization. It is also used in cartography to...
The cartographyof Ukraine involves the history of surveying and the construction of maps of Ukraine. Maps of Ukraine have been produced since the late...
The cartographyof Jerusalem is the creation, editing, processing and printing of maps of Jerusalem from ancient times until the rise of modern surveying...
"Ptolemaic tradition" of geography, which included "Ptolemaic cartographic theory." However, the concepts of geography (such as cartography) date back to the...
was situated at the top portion of the map.[citation needed] This qualitative and conceptual type of medieval cartography could yield extremely detailed...
(SPI) in 1978 that simulates the entire North African Campaign of World War II. The Campaign for North Africa has been called the longest board game ever...
the "Atlas of Islam" tradition that preceded his work. The primary influence for Al-Idrisi's cartography can be found in Arabic translations of Ptolemy's...
Cartographic propaganda is a map created with the goal of achieving a result similar to traditional propaganda. The map can be outright falsified, or...
Woodward, David (ed.). The History ofCartography, Volume 3: Cartography in the European Renaissance, Part 1 (PDF). University of Chicago. pp. 1183–1188. ISBN 978-0-226-90734-5...
The history of French cartography can be traced to developments in the Middle Ages. This period was marked by improvements in measuring instruments and...
summary of sixteenth-century cartography. The publication of the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1570) is often considered as the official beginning of the Golden...
understanding of the actual size of the continent. Eratosthenes was also the first geographer to incorporate parallels and meridians within his cartographic depictions...