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Jack Dangermond

Jack Dangermond is a prominent American cartographer and entrepreneur. He co-established Esri in 1969, pioneering digita...

American 20TH Century Digital Gis

9.6 Brilliant

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Waldo Tobler

Waldo Tobler (1909-1983) was a prominent American geographer renowned for his contributions to cartography and geography...

American 20TH Century Gis First Law

9.5 Brilliant

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Charles Joseph Minard

Charles Joseph Minard was a French cartographer active in the 19th century. He is particularly recognized for his innova...

French 19TH Century Thematic Flow Map

9.4 Excellent

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Arthur Robinson

Arthur Robinson was a 20th-century American cartographer best known for developing the Robinson projection in 1963. This...

American 20TH Century Projection National Geographic

9.4 Excellent

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Matthew Fontaine Maury

Matthew Fontaine Maury was a 19th-century American cartographer specializing in physical geography and oceanography. He...

American 19TH Century Physical Geography Ocean Chart

9.2 Excellent

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David Woodward

David Woodward was an American academic cartographer associated with the University of Wisconsin. He is primarily known...

American Academic 20TH Century History Of Cartography

9.2 Excellent

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Henry Gannett

Henry Gannett was an American cartographer instrumental in shaping modern surveying techniques. His long tenure as chief...

American Survey 19TH Century Usgs

9.0 Excellent

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John Wesley Powell

American geologist and explorer (1834–1902) who led the first documented river expedition through the Grand Canyon in 18...

American Survey 19TH Century Canyon

8.9 Great

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Buckminster Fuller

Buckminster Fuller was an American architect who invented the Dymaxion map in 1943, a projection of the world onto the s...

American 20TH Century Projection Dymaxion

8.9 Great

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Cindy Brewer

Cynthia Brewer is an American cartographer who created ColorBrewer, an influential online tool for selecting appropriate...

American Contemporary Academic Color

8.9 Great

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John Mitchell

John Mitchell (1711–1768) was a British-American botanist who created a highly influential 1755 map of eastern North Ame...

18TH Century American Colonial North America

8.8 Great

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Richard Edes Harrison

American cartographer (1901–1994) who pioneered perspective aerial-view maps for Fortune magazine during World War II, r...

American 20TH Century World War Ii Perspective

8.8 Great

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Mark Monmonier

Mark Monmonier is an American geographer notable for his influential 1991 book on map distortion and propaganda, which e...

American Academic 20TH Century Critical

8.8 Great

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Alan MacEachren

Alan MacEachren is an American geographer who pioneered the field of geovisualization and founded the GeoVISTA Center at...

American Contemporary Academic Semiotic

8.8 Great

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Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden

Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden was an American geologist whose late 19th-century mapping surveys of the American West, parti...

American 19TH Century West Yellowstone

8.8 Great

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Tom Patterson

Tom Patterson is an American cartographer known for developing the Natural Earth global dataset and revolutionizing mode...

American Contemporary Terrain Nps

8.5 Great

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John Pickles

John Pickles is a British geographer who advanced critical cartography, notably through his 1995 book exploring the soci...

American Contemporary Academic Critical Gis

8.5 Great

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Aileen Buckley

Aileen Buckley is an American cartographer at Esri who co-authored the Map Use textbook and contributed to the developme...

American Contemporary Digital Esri

8.0 Great

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John Hessler

John Hessler is an American geographer and specialist at the Library of Congress notable for his research on the 1507 Wa...

American Contemporary Academic History Of Cartography

8.0 Great

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Chet Van Duzer

Chet Van Duzer is an American historian of cartography notable for his extensive research on sea monsters depicted on Re...

American Contemporary Academic History Of Cartography

7.8 Good