Quotes

Wednesday April 25th 2007
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“The good cartographer is both a scientist and an artist. He must have a thorough knowledge of his subject and model, the Earth…. He must have the ability to generalize intelligently and to make a right selection of the features to show. These are represented by means of lines or colors; and the effective use of lines or colors requires more than knowledge of the subject - it requires artistic judgement.”
Erwin Josephus Raisz (1893 - 1968)

“Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things.”
Tobler’s First Law of Geography

“A map is the greatest of all epic poems. Its lines and colors show the realization of great dreams.”
Gilbert H. Grosvenor, Editor of National Geographic (1903- 1954)

“Knowing where things are, and why, is essential to rational decision making”
Jack Dangermond, Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI)

“A number of astronauts, and then all of us who saw the photography from space, marveled at how much the Florida peninsula, meandering Mississippi, the islands of Britain, and the boot of Italy resembled the maps everyone had grown up with. We had taken it for granted that maps were faithful reflections of reality; but we were somehow amazed when reality turned out to be true to the maps.”
John Noble Wilford, The Mapmakers





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