Quotes About Mapping

If a satellite in space ever mapped the myriad of lone tracks and trails across Mongolia, it would resemble a plate of spaghetti dropped on the floor.

eight miles to the southwest.

In pursuit of his goal, he attracted navigators, shipwrights, astronomers, pilots, cosmographers, and cartographers

Every captain sponsored by Prince Henry was under orders to record the tides, the currents, and the winds

and to compile accurate charts of the coastlines.

spit of sand is in 52 degrees latitude, 521?2 longitude, and from the spit of sand to the other part

Schöner's globe depicted a strait cutting through the American continent in the approximate location

Even the daring Schöner hesitated to depict the western coast of South America;

Schöner, like other cartographers of his era, shrank the immense Pacific

and carefully explored it to locate an entrance to the strait.

the land written by Amerigo Vespucci after his visit in 1502.

Magellan had a well-painted globe in which the entire world was depicted," wrote Bartolomé de las Casas

Like most explorers of the Age of Discovery, his ideas about the size of the globe, and location of landmasses

Maps are a way of organizing wonder.

Such orbits are not completely regular, since they never exactly repeat themselves, but they are certainly predictable, and they are far from chaotic. Points never arrive inside the curve or outside it. Translated back to the full three-dimensional picture, the orbits were outlining a torus, or doughnut shape, and Hénon's mapping was a cross-section of the torus. So far, he was merely illustrating what all his predecessors had taken for granted. Orbits were periodic.

i know by heart the places he likes to saale, delvan first and duvlin after, by dredgerous lands and devious delts

The cornerstone of our Tech 5 development platform is this uniquely textured map or world, where every surface doesn't have a repeating texture on it. It can all be stamped and modified due to the work done on it. The core technical question to be resolved on this was how do we get that media set to be playable on the iPhone.

In mapping, where I have no sense of direction, my needs are likely to coincide with the needs of lots of people.

My first occupation was to map the country.

You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.

But unlike European countries, America has never finished a map of the United States, only the eastern United States is covered and a few spots here and there.

32°46? latitude, 171°91? longitude

It's not in the interest of most mapping companies to make those changes as they occur, but if you give the power to local people, you can be sure that you're always getting the best information from the folks that actually drive those roads every day.

Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input.