He also gave his name to the standard way in which world maps were represented (the Mercator projection).
It featured on world maps and atlases for almost the entire 19th century.
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Though most of their world maps before then showed only Europe, Africa and Asia, a few added a fourth continent.
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International users, however, may be disappointed in DeLorme's lack of world maps.
When I started as a travel editor in 1986, American travel magazines resembled world maps before Columbus: There were lots of blank spots.
How about wall maps, 3-D relief maps, world maps, classroom maps, topographical maps, satellite maps, special projections, even maps of the ocean floor?
With a unique design, enhanced camera, world class maps with turn-by-turn navigation and free unlimited music streaming, the Nokia Lumia 822 provides Verizon Wireless customers with high-end smartphone features on America's largest 4G LTE network.
Developed in 2009 in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control, the tool digs through massive amounts of search data (all anonymous) looking for flu-releated searches around the world and maps out the intensity of outbreaks.
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Even greater use of 3D mapping for these tasks and others is "inevitable" in the future, according Prof Jerry Brotton, author of A History of the World in Twelve Maps.
The Nokia Lumia 620 also provides access to the world's best maps and location experience, including Nokia Maps, Nokia Drive, Nokia Transport and the exclusive Nokia City Lens.
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Free access to Ovi Maps, the world's most comprehensive walk and drive navigation, to Nokia smartphones was only the start.
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Navteq claims it has the most accurate maps in the world, in part because it sends out more than 700 workers in vans every day to take down detailed road information.
We'll have the option to publish maps for the world to see, and the results should be playable on a swath of platforms that include Android tablets, iPads, Macs and PCs running either Ubuntu Linux or Windows.
The Android-based MOD Live ships with four new, industry first applications: Buddy Tracking, Smartphone Connectivity, a Navigation app pre-loaded with the largest database of trail maps in the world, Music Playlist Mode, and Camera Connectivity for use in the future with select wireless point-of-view action cameras.
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People around the world have been asking for Google Maps on iPhone.
Google's Street View project sent hundreds of vehicles to photograph city streets around the world so that people using Google Maps could see 360-degree images of the locations.
But for many, such issues pale against the idea of a world without "free" mobile maps, and Apple's entry into the sector is seen as a driving force for further innovation.
Maps lull us into believing the world doesn't change, and they don't make us think hard enough about how we can compete in a changing landscape.
These maps, which primarily adorned the world's churches and other places of power and learning, succeeded in returning mapping to the dark ages, getting much wrong and gleefully so.
WSJ: Lost in Our Maps: A History of Cartographic Catastrophes
To achieve this, the Circular states that policies to protect and sustain World Heritage Sites, including any buffer zone and setting, should be incorporated in regional and local plans as well as maps showing the extent of the World Heritage Site and any buffer zone.
Players can expect a variety of race types and a degree of open world freedom to explore certain areas of the Festival maps.
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CityNet Maps supplies users with in-depth maps to cities and regions around the world, whether it be an extensive look at Greece or a more focused search of Atlanta.
As the products of both art and science, maps are often fascinating interpretations of the perceived world.
Knobs and switches on its World Core synthesizer module adjust the game machine's maps, graphics, characters and even physics through voltage tweaks.
Cumulatively, these resulted in the famous projection map of Gerardus Mercator in 1569, a plan of the world that still forms the basis of schoolroom teaching and Google Maps.
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Lauretta Burke who heads the project for the World Resources Institute is enthusiastic about the way in which interactive maps have enabled her team to gain more information and show it in an informative and engaging way.
Google Maps has become the most widely used mapping content in the world.
Much like Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap is a collaborative, crowdsourced and global project of over 650, 000 contributors dedicated to revolutionizing digital maps by creating a free, editable and interactive map of the world using data from satellites, GPS logs, local knowledge, and other sources of geographic information.
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