The Stories in Maps ; 9 Decades of Cartography On Display
The Washington Times › January 07, 2005
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Maps help grateful tourists the world over find the best way to navigate the streets of faraway places. But - as illustrated in National Geographic's latest exhibit - maps are so much more than tools to help people get from point A to point B.
"A map can show migration patterns, population density, concentrations of terrorist cells," says Susan Norton, director of the National Geographic Museum at Explorers Hall in Northwest. "You can layer it indefinitely."See the full content of this document
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The Stories in Maps ; 9 Decades of Cartography On Display
The current exhibit, "Mapping with Paper and Pixel," marks the publication of the eighth edition of the National Geographic Atlas of the World, which came out last year.
Ms. Norton says about 15,000 changes h...See the full content of this document
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