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Cartography is the study of map making and cartographers are map makers. Before 1400
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In this belief, European maps must be superior to others, which necessarily employed different map-making skills. "There was a 'not cartography' land where lurked an army of inaccurate, heretical, subjective, valuative, and ideologically distorted images. Cartographers developed a 'sense of the other' in relation to nonconforming maps." [44]
1519 : Portuguese cartographers Lopo Homem, Pedro Reinel and Jorge Reinel made the group of maps known today as the Miller Atlas or Lopo Homem – Reinéis Atlas. 1530: Alonzo de Santa Cruz, Spanish cartographer, produced the first map of magnetic variations from true north. He believed it would be of use in finding the correct longitude.
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The cartographers Martin Waldseemüller and Matthias Ringmann from southern Germany, supported by the mapping friend René II, Duke of Lorraine, collected map data over several years, including information on the most recent discoveries, to build up a new collective work of geography and cartography.
Hardo Aasmäe (Estonia, 1951–2014); Aziz Ab'Saber (Brazil, 1924–2012); Diogo Abreu (Portugal, born 1947); John Adams, (England, pre–1670–1738); Peter Adams ...
The Society of Cartographers (SoC) was a charity registered in England and Wales (No 326285), operating via a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee (No 05940023). The Society members voted unanimously in 2019 to cease the Society; all members, assets, and goodwill were transferred to their sister society "The British Cartographic Society ...