swap_horiz Jacques Bertin 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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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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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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Charles Minard

Charles Minard was a French cartographer active in the 19th century. He is most recognized for his innovative 1869 flow...

French 19TH Century Statistical Thematic

9.3 Excellent

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Guillaume Delisle

Guillaume Delisle was a 18th-century French cartographer whose meticulous work significantly advanced mapmaking techniqu...

18TH Century French Accuracy Scientific

9.2 Excellent

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J. Brian Harley

J. Brian Harley was a 20th-century English academic and cartographer. He established critical cartography, asserting tha...

Academic 20TH Century Critical English

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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Nicolas Sanson

Nicolas Sanson was a prominent French cartographer active in the 17th century. He significantly advanced thematic mappin...

French 17TH Century Thematic Early Modern

8.9 Great

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J.B. Harley

British historian of cartography (1932–1991) who pioneered a critical, deconstructionist approach analyzing maps as poli...

20TH Century British Critical Theory Theoretical

8.7 Great

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Philippe Buache

Philippe Buache (1700–1773) was a French geographer who pioneered thematic mapping and introduced the concept of distinc...

18TH Century French Thematic Bathymetric

8.3 Great

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Monique Pelletier

French cartographic historian who headed the Maps and Plans department at the Bibliothèque nationale de France and publi...

French Academic 20TH Century History Of Cartography

8.0 Great

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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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Philippe Bauche

French geographer (1700–1773) who served as Premier Géographe du Roi and pioneered theoretical submarine cartography, pr...

18TH Century French Submarine Thematic

7.6 Good

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Roger Hervé

Roger Hervé was a 20th-century French cartographic historian and chief conservator at the Bibliothèque nationale de Fran...

French Academic 20TH Century History Of Cartography

7.5 Good

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John K. Wright

American geographer (1891–1969) who coined the terms 'geosophy' and 'terrae incognitae' to advance the study of geograph...

American 20TH Century Theoretical History Of Cartography

7.2 Good

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Vera Panova

Vera Panova is a cartographer and geographer recognized for her academic contributions to the study of modern thematic m...

Russian Academic 20TH Century Thematic

4.0 Poor