Time would change this view of the world in the eyes of British mapmakers.
But perhaps we shouldn't be too hard on the early mapmakers, these pioneers of error.
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Mapmakers may be geographers and cartographers, but they can also be artists and imperialists, storytellers and propagandists.
They tend to reveal more about the mapmakers than the lands they chronicle.
Some 19 other states, aside from California, have established commissions, either as the main mapmakers or as advisers to the legislature.
Even now, when mapmakers have access to tools such as satellite images, there is still no objective and universally accepted map, argues Mr Brotton.
Even pious mapmakers found it hard to reconcile the clues in the Bible (a place where four rivers rose) with the realities of physical geography.
Governments in England and the U.S. sought to protect mapmakers to encourage them to produce more of the navigational charts that enhanced maritime traffic and trade.
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Even as massive mapmakers grapple with the problems of how to present the world in ways that serve both educational , commercial and political needs, they are running up against new competitors: individuals.
We appealed to Blizzard for help, and they kindly bailed us out by loaning us top mapmakers Tony Hsu and Meng Song to help us tweak and refine what we had.
Like nature itself, mapmakers have always abhorred a vacuum.
WSJ: Lost in Our Maps: A History of Cartographic Catastrophes
The projection provided a solution to a puzzle that had troubled mapmakers since the world was recognized as a sphere: How does one represent the curved surface of the globe on a flat chart?
WSJ: Lost in Our Maps: A History of Cartographic Catastrophes
Southern San Mateo and northern Santa Clara counties Sustained population growth in the San Francisco Peninsula enabled mapmakers in 1992 to fashion a full district from suburbs south of the San Mateo Bridge and north of San Jose.
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