http://oldworldmaps.info/blog Sat, 03 Mar 2007 16:43:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Cartographer always maps out his workColumbus Dispatch, OH -Feb 28, 2007Cartographers (pronounced car-TOGG-ruh-fers) are employed by all sorts of companies. Police departments use maps to figure out where the most crimes are ... Read more: here http://oldworldmaps.info/blog/cartographer-always-maps-out-his-work-columbus-dispatch.html National Geographic MapMachineVoice of America -22 hours agoAllen Carroll is chief cartographer for the National Geographic Society, whose MapMachine is online at nationalgeographic.com/maps. ... Read more: here http://oldworldmaps.info/blog/national-geographic-mapmachine-voice-of-america.html Want to make maps?Columbus Dispatch, OH -Feb 28, 2007Many colleges offer cartography classes. Allen Carroll, chief cartographer at the National Geographic Society, majored in environmental studies. ... Read more: here http://oldworldmaps.info/blog/want-to-make-maps-columbus-dispatch.html Rare 16th century nautical atlas found in OlomoucRadio Prague, Czech Republic -3 hours ago"Jaume Olives was a famous producer of portable maps in the sixteenth century and he was a member of a very famous Catalan family of cartographers. ... Read more: here http://oldworldmaps.info/blog/rare-16th-century-nautical-atlas-found-in-olomouc-radio-prague.html Cartographers to defend map at public Lakeville meetingSouthCoastToday.com, MA -12 hours agoBy LAUREN DALEY, Standard-Times staff writer. LAKEVILLE — The makers of a state map that former Selectmen Chairman Richard LaCamera decried in November will ... Read more: here http://oldworldmaps.info/blog/cartographers-to-defend-map-at-public-lakeville-meeting-southcoasttodaycom.html Become a cartographerBirmingham News, AL -Feb 8, 2007Many colleges offer cartography classes. Allen Carroll, chief cartographer at the National Geographic Society, majored in environmental studies. ... Read more: here http://oldworldmaps.info/blog/become-a-cartographer-birmingham-news.html Cartographer finds fun in lost art of hand-drawn mapsKVOA.com, AZ -Feb 11, 2007He also referred to old maps and township surveys from other communities to familiarize himself with what cartographers in the late 1800s did when drawing ... Read more: here http://oldworldmaps.info/blog/cartographer-finds-fun-in-lost-art-of-hand-drawn-maps-kvoacom.html Cartographer finds fun in lost artCasa Grande Valley Newspapers, AZ -Feb 14, 2007The work, since he graduated from Northern Arizona University with a degree in geology specializing in cartography, has never been permanent for him. ... Read more: here http://oldworldmaps.info/blog/cartographer-finds-fun-in-lost-art-casa-grande-valley-newspapers.html Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus) was a Greek mathematician,astronomer and geographer. (90 – 168 AD). Ptolemy's main work is Geographia,written circa 150. This is a compilation of what was known about the world's geography in the Roman Empire during his time. He relied mainly on the work of an earlier geographer, Marinos ... http://oldworldmaps.info/blog/ptolemy-world-map.html