Quotes About Cartography

What is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons?

Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and we have better maps of Mars than that 50 percent.

There's just something hypnotic about maps.

All we had were maps that said "unsurveyed.

King, Dean. Harbors and High Seas: An Atlas and Geographical Guide to the Complete Aubrey-Maturin Novels of Patrick O'Brian. New York: Owl Books, 2000.

There must be something innate about maps, about this one specific way of picturing our world and our relation to it, that charms us, calls to us, won't let us look anywhere else in the room if there's a map on the wall.

for a schoolroom without a physical atlas is like a needle without an eye)

They sit roughly 900 miles north and east of the Bahamas; roughly 600 miles east of Virginia; and about 3,500 miles south and west of London.

People used to draw dragons on the edges of old maps. When the world hadn't been fully explored, mapmakers imagined dragons living at the far ends.

They were maps that lived, maps that one could study, frown over, and add to; maps, in short, that really meant something.

Its title was "Virtual-Space Cartography from Manifold-Based Traffic Analysis.

That's what a map is, you know. Just a memory.

Catherynne M. Valente

What is a map, but a thing that gets you where you're going? -Mr. Map

Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.

The earth's round, like an orange, but this map is like its skin, cut off in ovals, north to south, laid flat and stretched a bit at the top and bottom. A Dutchman called Mercator invented the way to do this accurately twenty years ago. It's the first accurate world map.

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

Schöner's maps closely resembled Behaim's, and Pigafetta could easily have mistaken one for the other

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

the newly discovered land went by various names; not until 1511 did "Brazil" first appear on a map

Magellan named the inlet Bahía de los Patos, Duck Bay

Significantly, Serrão's letters placed the Spice Islands far to the east of their true position;