swap_horiz John K. Wright 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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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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Jacques Bertin

Jacques Bertin was a French cartographer and semiotician active throughout the 20th century. He developed Sémiologie Gra...

French 20TH Century Theoretical Thematic

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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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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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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Günter Schilder

Günter Schilder is an Austrian-born Dutch historian of cartography notable for his extensive research on 16th and 17th-c...

Academic 20TH Century Dutch History Of 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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Raleigh Ashlin Skelton

British cartographic historian (1906–1970) and Superintendent of the British Museum Map Room, notable for his deep invol...

Academic 20TH Century British 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