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100 Years of National Geographic Maps

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« Cartographes penchés sur une carte se demandant si la Crimée est russe ou pas »

PUBLISHED January 23, 2015

The coordinates of the office of The Geographer of the National Geographic Society are 38° 54’ 18" N, 77° 2’ 12" W. You might say that Juan José Valdés, who currently holds that title, knows exactly where he stands.

But the scope of National Geographic’s cartographic department, which celebrates its hundredth anniversary this year, encompasses not just those bearings, but also those of every mountain, river, lake, road, reef, fjord, island, inlet, glacier, ocean, planet, galaxy, and solar system—in short, any physical feature on land, on sea, or in space.

#cartographie #bationa_geographic

100 Years of National Geographic Maps

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By Cathy Newman, National Geographic

PUBLISHED January 23, 2015

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The coordinates of the office of The Geographer of the National Geographic Society are 38° 54’ 18" N, 77° 2’ 12" W. You might say that Juan José Valdés, who currently holds that title, knows exactly where he stands.

But the scope of National Geographic’s cartographic department, which celebrates its hundredth anniversary this year, encompasses not just those bearings, but also those of every mountain, river, lake, road, reef, fjord, island, inlet, glacier, ocean, planet, galaxy, and solar system—in short, any physical feature on land, on sea, or in space.

At this writing (the count is obsolete as soon as it is tallied), National Geographic cartographers have produced 438 supplement maps, ten world atlases, dozens of globes, about 3,000 maps for the magazine, and many maps in digital form.

#cartographie #national_geographic

’We map the world as it is:’ National Geographic maps Crimea as part of Russia — RT News

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“We map the world as it is – not as people would like it to be,” National Geographic’s map-making authority says, as the educational entertainment giant prepares to mark Crimea as part of Russia after the parliament officially ratifies the measure.

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Juan Jose Valdes, NatGeo’s geographer, chief editor and research director for the map-making division, emerged from a meeting with the magazine’s editorial, legal and cartographic authorities on Tuesday, where the decision was made to give the area a temporary special shading (like the Gaza Strip or the West Bank), until permanent coloring after the Russian parliament approves the treaty signed by President Putin and the Crimean authorities.

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