- Walter Map
Walter Map (fl. 1160-1196, died c. 1208-1210) was a medieval writer. He claims Welsh origin and to be a man of the Welsh Marches ("marchio sum Walensibus"); details in his writings suggest that he came from Herefordshire. He studied at the University of Paris, apparently around 1160 when Gerard la Pucelle was teaching there. He had encountered Thomas Becket before 1162. - Daniel Smith
Daniel Smith (October 29, 1748-June 16, 1818) was a surveyor, an American Revolutionary War patriot, and twice a United States Senator from Tennessee. Smith was born in auckland Stafford County, Virginia. He attended the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. Becoming a surveyor, he moved to Augusta County, Virginia, becoming deputy surveyor of that county in 1773. He fought in Indian Wars and of militia. - James Cook
Captain James Cook FRS RN (27 October 1728 (O.S.) – 14 February 1779) was an English explorer, navigator and cartographer. Ultimately rising to the rank of Captain in the Royal Navy, Cook was the first to map Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean during which he achieved the first European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia, the European discovery of the Hawaiian Islands, and the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand. - Diana Degette
Diana Louise DeGette (born July 29 1957), is a politician from the U.S. state of Colorado. She has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1997, representing (map). The district is based in Denver. A fourth-generation Coloradan, DeGette was born in Tachikawa, Japan while her father served in the armed forces. She graduated with honors from Colorado College in 1979 and earned a Juris Doctor degree from New York University in 1982. - David Woodward
David Woodward (29 August, 1942 - 25 August, 2004) was an English-born American historian of cartography and cartographer. - Paula Scher
Paula Scher (born 1948 in Washington D.C.) is an American graphic designer and artist. Scher studied at the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington D.C., earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts. In the 1970s she designed album covers for CBS Recordings, before moving into art direction for magazines. She worked at Time Inc. before forming her own design firm, Koppel & Scher. - Mark Ovenden
Mark Ovenden (born 20 June 1963, London, UK) is an author who specialises in the subject of graphic design, cartography and architecture in public transport, with an emphasis on the underground railway. "See also Mark Ovenden (sportscaster)". His first book Metro Maps of the World is a comprehensive guide to the diagrams, plans and maps of every Subway, U-bahn, Underground and Metro system. - Thomas Moule
Thomas Moule (1784 - January 1851) was an English antiquarian, writer on heraldry, and map-maker. He is best known for his popular and highly decorated county maps of England, steel-engraved and first published separately between 1830 and 1832. Moule was born in Marylebone, London. He sold books in Duke Street, Grosvenor Square, from 1816 to 1822. Later, he became an inspector of 'blind' (illegibly addressed) letters at the General Post Office. - Paul Sandby
Paul Sandby (1725 (this birth year seems most unlikely – 1730/1 seems more likely)9 November 1809) was an English map-maker turned landscape painter in watercolours, who, along with his older brother Thomas, became one of the founding members of the Royal Academy in 1768. Born in Nottingham, Sandby joined the topographical drawing room of the Board of Ordnance at the Tower of London in the early 1740s and in 1746 was tasked with mapping the remote Scottish Highlands. - Timothy Pont
Timothy Pont (c 1565 - 1614) was first man to produce a detailed map of Scotland. He was the son of Robert Pont, a notable cleric and politician. He studied at St Andrews University between 1580 and 1583. He spent the late 1580s and the 1590s travelling throughout Scotland, mapping the country. Between 1601 and 1610 he was the minister of Dunnet Parish Church in the north of Scotland. - Frank Lenz
Frank Lenz (born 18 June 1967 in San Leandro, California) is a drummer from Southern California who has done work for many bands and artists, including but not limited to Daniel Amos, Crystal Lewis, Duraluxe, MAP, Charity Empressa, Kevin Max, Cush and The Dingees. - Graham Arader
W. Graham Arader III a U.S. dealer in old maps, probably the most prominent figure in his field. By his own account, Arader's career began while he was still a Yale University undergraduate. "There were thirty world-class rare book librarians, historians, curators of collections... I'm the only guy in history who used Yale as a trade school." [Harvey, … - Thomas Holme
Thomas Holme was the first Surveyor General of Pennsylvania. He was born in Lancaster County, England on November 3, 1624, to a yeoman named George and his wife Alice. He married Sarah Croft in 1649, and soon enlisted in the army under the leadership of Oliver Cromwell, where he attained the rank of captain. It may have been in the army that he gained some experience in surveying. After retiring he was granted more than 4,000 acres (16 km²) in Wexford, Ireland, … - Alexander Keith Johnston
Alexander Keith Johnston (28 December 1804 - 9 July 1871) was a Scottish geographer. He was born at Kirkhill near Edinburgh. After an education at the high school and the University of Edinburgh he was apprenticed to an engraver; and in 1826 joined his brother (who would become Sir William Johnston, lord provost of Edinburgh) in a printing and engraving business, forming the well-known cartographical firm of W. and A. K. Johnston. - John P. Surma
Mr. John P. Surma is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of United States Steel Corporation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania--the largest integrated steel producer in the United States. He graduated from Penn State in 1976 with a bachelor of science degree in accounting. Mr. Surma joined Price Waterhouse LLP in 1976, and in 1981 he served in the Manchester, England, office of the Price Waterhouse United Kingdom firm. In 1987, he was admitted to the partnership. - Joachim Bouvet
Joachim Bouvet (Chinese:白晋 or 白進, courtesy name:明远) was a French Jesuit and Figurist. Born at Le Mans, he came to China in 1687, as one of six Jesuits, the first group of French missionary to China, sent by the Sun King. The Jesuits were well received by Emperor Kangxi. Bouvert and Jean-François Gerbillon stayed at Peking, teaching the emperor mathematics and astronomy. Bouvet later served as the Chinese emperor's ambassador, and returned to France in 1697. - Johannes Werner
Johannes Werner (February 14 1468 - 1528), a parish priest in Nuremberg, refined and promoted the "Werner map projection", a cordiform (heart-shape) projection map that had been developed by Johannes Stabius (Stab) of Vienna around 1500. After its introduction by Werner in his 1514 book, "Nova translatio primi libri geographiaae C. Ptolemaei", … - Talbert Abrams
Talbert "Ted" Abrams is known as the " father of aerial photography". Born in Tekonsha, Michigan, Abrams learned to fly at the Curtiss Aviation School while working as a mechanic for Curtiss. He served in the US Marine Corps during World War I, and was assigned to the US Navy flying school at Pensacola. Following the war, his squadron took photos of rebel activities on Haiti, and Abrams became interested in the potential of aerial photography. - James Horsburgh
James Horsburgh was a Scottish hydrographer. He worked for East India Company, who mapped many seaways around Singapore in the late 18th century and early 19th century. Born at Elie, Fife, he went to sea at the age of 16 and was captured and imprisoned by the French at Dunkirk. After his release, he made voyages to the West Indies and Calcutta. In May 1786, on a voyage on the ship "Atlas" from Batavia to Ceylon as first mate, … - Johannes Schöner
Johannes Schöner (aka, Johann Schönner, Jean Schönner, Johann Schoenerus) was a German mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, cartographer and editor. In 1494, he began to study theology, mathematics and medicine at Erfurt. He was ordained priest in 1500. In Nürnberg, he learned observing astronomy with Bernard Walther. Until 1525, he hold several positions in churches at and near Bamberg. - Hernando de Alarcón
Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón, a Spanish navigator of the 16th century, noted for having led an early expedition to the peninsula of Baja California, meant to be coordinated with Francisco Vasquéz de Coronado's overland expedition, and for penetrating the lower Colorado River, perhaps as far as the modern California-Arizona boundary. Little is known about Alarcón's life outside of his expedition in New Spain. - Jean-Étienne Guettard
Jean-Étienne Guettard, French naturalist and mineralogist, was born at Etampes. In boyhood, he gained a knowledge of plants from his grandfather, who was an apothecary, and later he qualified as a doctor in medicine. Pursuing the study of botany in various parts of France and other countries, he began to take notice of the relation between the distribution of plants and the soils and subsoils. In this way his attention came to be directed to minerals and rocks. - Cline Paden
Cline Rex Paden (August 22, 1919 - May 26, 2007) was a prominent Church of Christ evangelist and missionary who, in 1962, founded what became the Sunset International Bible Institute in Lubbock, Texas. The institute offers college-style instruction in Lubbock and a series of satellite schools in forty-six states and in such countries as Austria, Bahamas, Belarus, Bermuda, Canada, Cuba, El Salvador, England, Germany, Ghana, Guyana, Indonesia, Lithuania, Nigeria, Philippines, … - Johannes Stabius
Johannes Stabius (Johann Stab) (died 1522) was an Austrian cartographer of Vienna who developed, around 1500, the heart-shape (cordiform) projection map later developed further by Johannes Werner. It is called the "Werner map projection", but also the Stabius-Werner or the Stab-Werner projection. After its introduction by Werner in his 1514 book, "Nova translatio primi libri geographiaae C. Ptolemaei", … - Michael Hertz Associates
Michael Hertz Associates (MHA) is a New York City graphic design firm, best known for its 1979 design of the New York City subway map and the station and subway car signage systems that the map engendered. The 1979 map, with some modifications, remains in use today. The firm specializes in maps and environmental graphics for mass transit systems. The firm was founded by Michael Hertz in 1969, and he remains principal of the firm. - Giovanni Lucio
Giovanni Lucio ; September, 1604 - January 11, 1679, was a historian from Dalmatia. His greatest and most famous work is "De regno Dalmatiae et Croatiae" ("The Kingdom of Dalmatia and Croatia"), which includes valuable historical sources, a bibliography and six historical maps. - William Arveson
William Arveson is a mathematician specializing in operator algebras. He is currently professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. Arveson obtained his Ph. D. at UCLA in 1964. Of particular note is Arveson's work on completely positive maps. One of his earlier results in this area is an extension theorem for completely positive maps with values in the algebra of all bounded operators on a Hilbert space. - Dimitrija Čupovski
Dimitrija Čupovski was a Macedonian textbook writer and lexicographer. He is one of the founders of the of the Macedonian Literary Society and its President from 1902 to 1917. The author of a large number of articles and official documents, publisher of the printed bulletin of the "Macedonian Colony", and organiser of several Macedonian associations, he wrote verse both in Russian and Macedonian. - Eugène Michel Antoniadi
Eugène Michel Antoniadi was a Greek astronomer, born in Asia Minor, who spent most of his life in France. He was also known as Eugenios Antoniadis. His name is also sometimes given as Eugène Michael Antoniadi or even incorrectly Eugène Marie Antoniadi. He became a highly reputed observer of Mars, and at first supported the notion of Martian canals, … - Guido Of Ravenna
Guido of Ravenna "?or Guido of Pisa?" (birth unknown - death July 9, 1169), geographer, entomologist and historian from Ravenna. Wrote e.g. "Géographica", the encyclopedia including maps of Italy and the world. One map dated to 1119 A.D. refers to some earlier maps ("Anonymous Geographer from Ravenna") from the Crusading Age. His knowledge seems to be unknown outside Italy until 19th century. See also: Cosmographia - Pieter van Der van der Aa
Pieter van der Aa (Leiden, 1659 - Leiden, August 1733) was a Dutch publisher best known for preparing maps and atlases. Some of his most popular maps were of the African continent, detailing locations such as Morocco and Madagascar. The orchid genus "Aa" is said to be named after him by the botanist Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach because he was the printer for the Dutch botanist Paul Herman's "Paradisus Batavus". - Per Abraham Örnsköld
Per Abraham Örnsköld was a Swedish count. In 1762 he was appointed county governor of the vast Västernorrland County, which at that time consisted of the provinces Medelpad, Ångermanland and Jämtland. Örnsköld realized the possibilities of the area, and often travelled through it, by foot or with a carriage. He used his knowledge about agriculture and city planning to found new towns when old towns were overcrowded, and he helped the farmers trench dikes, … - Agathedaemon Of Alexandria
Agathedaemon of Alexandria, map designer, probably lived in the 2nd century AD. Some manuscripts of the "Geography" of Ptolemy contain twenty-seven maps, which are stated to have been drawn by Agathodaemon, who "delineated the whole world according to the eight books of Ptolemy's geography." As Ptolemy speaks of IIinakes to accompany his treatise, these maps were probably the work of a contemporary acting under his instructions. - Feodor II of Russia II of Russia
Feodor II of Russia was a tsar of Russia (1605) during the Time of Troubles. He was born in Moscow, the son and successor to Boris Godunov. His mother was one of the daughters of Malyuta Skuratov, the infamous favourite of Ivan the Terrible. Physically robust and passionately beloved by his father, he received the best available education for those days, and from childhood was initiated into all the minutiae of government, … - Elaine Corets
Elaine Corets , Latin America Coordinator bio for Elaine Elaine supports regional partners by facilitating communications and catalyzing collaborative projects, with a focus on adapting MAP's mangrove curriculum in the region and networking on shrimp aquaculture issues in NE Brazil. She brings to MAP more than 20 years of diverse international experiences in plant ecology and conservation, community forestry, oceanography, sustainable agriculture, and environmental education. - Spam Map
- Sheila Map
"First with the head then with the heart." I am a dreamer, traveler, free-thinker, and teacher. I have been living in Turkey since 2003 and have had amazing experiences learning about life in this country. I hope to visit many countries and learn more about how other people live. Friends tell me I am 'brave', though I disagree. I am just not afraid. there is a difference. :-) What more to say? I don't know right now. - Compton Put Compton On Tha Map
found this. - Mike Mike Is On The Map.......
found this. - Mieke Map
i am bored. I don't get nearly enough sleep. I don't do nearly enough of the things that I want to. I smile and giggle. I get in really weird moods that still freak my friends out even though they have known me for a really long time. My legs are restless, it might be that syndrome but it bothers me on car rides and when I need to sleep. It may also be what contributes to those strange moods.
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