swap_horiz James Gall Alternatives

1

Gerardus Mercator

Gerardus Mercator was a prominent 16th-century Flemish cartographer renowned for developing the Mercator projection. Thi...

Renaissance Projection 16TH Century Atlas

9.9 Brilliant

2

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

3

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

4

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

5

Marinus of Tyre

Marinus of Tyre was a 2nd-century Roman cartographer renowned for developing the first known world map utilizing latitud...

Classical Ancient Roman Projection

9.0 Excellent

6

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

7

Augustus Petermann

Augustus Petermann was a 19th-century German cartographer renowned for his detailed explorations of Arctic regions. His...

19TH Century Arctic Thematic German English

8.9 Great

8

John Wesley Powell

John Wesley Powell was an American geologist and cartographer instrumental in understanding the American West. His 1869...

American Survey 19TH Century Canyon

8.9 Great

9

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

10

Heinrich Berghaus

Heinrich Berghaus (1797–1884) was a German geographer who created a groundbreaking physical atlas that visually depicted...

German 19TH Century Thematic Physical Atlas

8.8 Great

11

Karl Ritter

Karl Ritter (1779–1859) was a pioneering German geographer who helped establish modern academic geography through his ex...

German Academic 19TH Century Physical

8.8 Great

12

John George Bartholomew

Scottish cartographer (1860–1920) who headed the Edinburgh firm Bartholomew & Son and developed the layer-coloring syste...

19TH Century Scottish Atlas Bartholomew Family

8.8 Great

13

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

14

Francis Amasa Walker

American economist and statistician (1840–1897) who directed the 9th U.S. Census and authored the groundbreaking Statist...

American 19TH Century Thematic Statistical Atlas

8.5 Great

15

Max Eckert-Greifendorff

German cartographer (1868–1938) who devised six cylindrical map projections (Eckert I–VI) in 1906 and authored foundatio...

German Academic 19TH Century Projection

8.4 Great

16

Ernst Georg Ravenstein

Ernst Georg Ravenstein (1834–1913) was a German-English geographer who established foundational laws of human migration...

19TH Century Migration Projection German English

8.0 Great

17

John Paul Goode

American cartographer (1862–1932) who developed the homolosine interrupted projection in 1923, widely adopted in educati...

American 19TH Century Projection Homolosine

8.0 Great

18

John Bartholomew Jr.

Scottish cartographer (1831–1893) who expanded the Edinburgh map-publishing firm Bartholomew & Son into a leading Britis...

19TH Century Scottish Atlas Bartholomew Family

7.8 Good

19

Walter Behrmann

German cartographer (1882–1955) who proposed the Behrmann cylindrical equal-area projection in 1910, one of several stan...

German 20TH Century Cylindrical Projection

7.5 Good

20

Arno Peters

German historian and filmmaker (1916–2002) who promoted an equal-area cylindrical world map projection in 1973, sparking...

German 20TH Century Projection Gall Peters

7.2 Good