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Bedolina Map – 3000 years old
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Camuni Rock Map
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Babylonian map – 2500+ years old
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Ancient Greeks Hipparchus (190-120BC) – latitude / longitude;
Eratosthenes ( BC) -circumference of earth Hipparchus ( BC) – latitude / longitude; stereographic projection Claudius Ptolemy, (AD ) -first world map Reconstruction of Ptolemy’s first world map.
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Roman world map – reconstruction AD 43 East (Orient) to top
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“T-in-O” map (dark ages)
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Al-Idrisi 12th century
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12th century Chinese map
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The Renaissance (> 1450): Ptolemy’s world is rediscovered
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First map showing North America, 1502
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Magellan’s circumnavigation of the earth 1519-1522
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New National Atlas of France 1833
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International Time zones 1878 (based on longitude) by Sanford Fleming Prime meridian set in Greenwich, 1851
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The Atlas of Canada
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Millionith Maps
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Google Mania Earth Browser
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Mars Global Surveyor: Mars Orbiter Laser altimeter
Planetary mapping: MARS: DEM resolution in the z = 30cm from LiDAR
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Invention of printing press by Gutenberg, 1450
(though movable type was developed in China in 1041 by Bi Sheng)
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16th century woodcut: Newfoundland
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Copper engraving 1596
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Early 18th century colour map (hand coloured)
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Digital plotting Cyan, Magenta Yellow, BlacK ink-jet printers CMYK
digital mapping: RGB (screen) Cyan, Magenta Yellow, BlacK
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Digital /( Recreational mapping) 1990s ->
Increased access to data, hardware, software, and recreation
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Homework Listen to CBC Radio ‘Spark’ episode called Scouts, Apps, Maps
-The future of collaborative digital mapping. -What maps can tell us about...well, US! -Mapping Canada's Arctic...with a tricycle. -In an era of GPS directions, do you even know HOW to read a paper map? **Discussion during the next class**
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