swap_horiz Isaiah Bowman Alternatives

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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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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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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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Buckminster Fuller

Buckminster Fuller was a prominent 20th-century American cartographer known for his innovative work with map projections...

American 20TH Century Projection Dymaxion

8.9 Great

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Richard Edes Harrison

Richard Edes Harrison was a 20th-century American cartographer renowned for his innovative use of perspective in aerial...

American 20TH Century World War Ii Perspective

8.8 Great

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Mark Monmonier

Mark Monmonier is a prominent American cartographer specializing in critical analysis of mapmaking. His work examines hi...

American Academic 20TH Century Critical

8.8 Great

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Arthur H. Robinson

American cartographer (1915–2004) who designed the Robinson projection in 1963, a compromise projection adopted by the N...

American Education 20TH Century Robinson Projection

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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Hal Shelton

Hal Shelton was an American cartographer notable for creating pioneering, naturally colored, physiographic maps for majo...

American 20TH Century Terrain Natural Color

8.3 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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John Snyder

USGS cartographer who compiled rigorous mathematical formulas for hundreds of map projections and authored the definitiv...

American 20TH Century Mathematical Usgs

8.3 Great

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Charles O. Paullin

American historian (1869–1944) who co-authored the landmark Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States (1932...

American 20TH Century Historical United States

7.9 Good

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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

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Athelstan Spilhaus

South African-American oceanographer (1911–1998) who devised an ocean-centered world map projection in 1942 depicting Ea...

American 20TH Century Thematic Ocean Map

7.8 Good

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Oscar Sherman Adams

USGS geodesist who co-authored 'Elements of Map Projection' (1921) and produced foundational mathematical treatments of...

American 20TH Century Mathematical Projection

7.6 Good

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Phillip Muehrcke

American cartographer and University of Wisconsin professor, author of the widely adopted textbook 'Map Use: Reading, An...

Educational American Academic 20TH Century

7.6 Good