swap_horiz Waldo Tobler 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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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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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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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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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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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

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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

American cartographer (1901–1994) who pioneered perspective aerial-view maps for Fortune magazine during World War II, r...

American 20TH Century World War Ii Perspective

8.8 Great

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Mark Monmonier

Mark Monmonier is an American geographer notable for his influential 1991 book on map distortion and propaganda, which e...

American Academic 20TH Century Critical

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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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