swap_horiz Hal Shelton Alternatives

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Eduard Imhof

Eduard Imhof was a Swiss cartographer active throughout the 20th century. He is particularly recognized for pioneering i...

Swiss 20TH Century Terrain Relief Shading

9.6 Brilliant

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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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Roger Tomlinson

Roger Tomlinson is a Canadian cartographer renowned for his creation of the Canada Land Inventory and the development of...

Canadian 20TH Century Digital Gis

9.5 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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Edward Tufte

Edward Tufte is a prominent American cartographer and visual display expert. He advocates for clear, concise graphics th...

American Contemporary Statistical Graphics Visual Display

9.5 Brilliant

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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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Harry Beck

Harry Beck is a cartographer renowned for his innovative design of the London Underground map. Created in 1933, this sch...

20TH Century English Schematic Transit Map

9.4 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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Heinrich C. Berann

Heinrich C. Berann was a 20th-century Austrian cartographer celebrated for his meticulously hand-painted terrain panoram...

Panorama Austrian 20TH Century Terrain

9.0 Excellent

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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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Erwin Raisz

Hungarian-American cartographer (1893–1968) known for his physiographic landform diagrams and his influential textbook '...

20TH Century Terrain Hungarian American Physiographic

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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Osborn Maitland Miller

American cartographer (1897–1979) who developed the Miller cylindrical projection in 1942, designed as a practical visua...

American 20TH Century Projection Miller Cylindrical

8.5 Great

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Denis Wood

Denis Wood is an American geographer known for his work in critical cartography, particularly his 1992 book examining ma...

American Academic 20TH Century Critical Cartography

8.5 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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Walter W. Ristow

American map librarian and cartographic historian (1908–2001) who served as chief of the Geography and Map Division at t...

American Academic 20TH Century History Of Cartography

8.3 Great

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Norman Thrower

American cartographic historian (1919–2016) and UCLA professor, author of Maps and Civilization, a widely used academic...

American Academic 20TH Century History Of Cartography

8.3 Great

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Lloyd A. Brown

American cartographic historian and librarian (1907–1966) best known for The Story of Maps (1949), an influential survey...

American Academic 20TH Century History Of Cartography

7.8 Good

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Evelyn Edson

American cartographic historian and author of Mapping Time and Space (1997), a scholarly study of medieval world maps an...

American Academic 20TH Century Medieval

7.8 Good