Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quite easy to make a map. Even if you can't draw. Simply sketch in a few lines on a piece of paper, identify some important intersections and checkpoints, and that's it. For indicating directions or the location of a place, such a map will probably serve as well as the Esso variety from the local gas station. Maybe even better, since it will be less cluttered with irrelevant material...
...basic consideration about all such maps is the utilitarian function. We use them because we want to know where we are, or where we are going to. Rarely, if ever, does the map give any indication of what the land itself really looks like. It merely relates places to other places...
...many professional cartographers, however, this is not enough. In their maps, they want to show the actual configuration of the territory. To give these true pictures of the earth's surface, cartographers do not have to rely on some color scheme, with different colors representing different heights. With sufficient time, skill, and patience, they can actually sketch into the map the various mountains, valleys, and other land formations...
...this more scholarly approach which typifies the map-making of Erwin Raisz, a former lecturer in Cartography at the University and one of the world's foremost experts in so-called landform maps. Geology, geography, and history departments at universities throughout the country order maps from him, as do various government agencies in Washington...
...resident of Cambridge, Raisz has traveled in every state in the United States, every province in Canada, every country in Europe, and in Turkey, Arabia, Mexico, Cuba, Alaska, and the Canadian Arctic. For his actual map-making, he uses aerial photographs, large collections of which are available both in this country and abroad. He particularly likes those taken with a trimetrogon camera--really three cameras in one. They are mounted so that one camera takes a picture straight downward, while the two others take pictures obliquely left and right from horizon to horizon with a small overlap...