swap_horiz Peter Pond Alternatives

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James Cook

James Cook was an English cartographer and explorer active in the 18th century. His detailed surveys of the Pacific Ocea...

18TH Century Exploration Survey English

9.6 Brilliant

2

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

3

William Smith

William Smith was a prominent 18th and 19th-century English cartographer whose meticulous work revolutionized geological...

18TH Century English Geological Map Stratigraphy

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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David Thompson

David Thompson was a 18th-century cartographer employed by the Hudson’s Bay Company. He undertook extensive surveying an...

18TH Century Exploration Survey Northwest

9.3 Excellent

8

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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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

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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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Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville

Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville was a prominent 18th-century French cartographer renowned for meticulous mapmaking....

18TH Century French Accuracy Atlas

9.1 Excellent

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Matthew Flinders

Matthew Flinders was an English cartographer renowned for his detailed surveys of Australia during the late 18th century...

18TH Century Exploration Survey Australia

9.1 Excellent

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Aaron Arrowsmith

Aaron Arrowsmith was an 18th-century English cartographer renowned for his meticulously crafted large format atlases and...

18TH Century Exploration Large Format English

8.9 Great

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John Mitchell

John Mitchell (1711–1768) was a British-American botanist who created a highly influential 1755 map of eastern North Ame...

18TH Century American Colonial North America

8.8 Great

15

George Vancouver

George Vancouver was a British Royal Navy officer who led an exhaustive 1790s maritime expedition that charted the highl...

18TH Century Exploration Survey Pacific Coast

8.8 Great

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Alejandro Malaspina

Alejandro Malaspina was an Italian-born Spanish naval officer who led a major scientific expedition between 1789 and 179...

18TH Century Exploration Survey Pacific

8.5 Great

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Lewis Evans

Lewis Evans (1700–1756) was a Welsh-born American surveyor who produced a crucial 1749 map of the middle British colonie...

18TH Century American Survey Colonial

7.8 Good

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John Charles Frémont

American explorer and military officer (1813–1890) who led multiple expeditions mapping the American West in the 1840s,...

Exploration American Survey 19TH Century

7.5 Good

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Jedidiah Morse

American minister and geographer (1761–1826) called 'the Father of American Geography' for authoring the first geography...

18TH Century American Geography Atlas

7.5 Good

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William Darby

American geographer and cartographer (1775–1854) who produced some of the earliest detailed maps of Louisiana and the Un...

18TH Century American Survey Atlas

6.5 Fair