1. Bedolina Map – 3000 years old

2. Camuni Rock Map

3. Babylonian map – 2500+ years old

4. Ancient Greeks Hipparchus (190-120BC) – latitude / longitude;
Eratosthenes ( BC)
-circumference of earth
Hipparchus ( BC)
– latitude / longitude;
stereographic projection
Claudius Ptolemy, (AD )
-first world map
Reconstruction of Ptolemy’s first world map.

5. Roman world map – reconstruction AD 43 East (Orient) to top

6. “T-in-O” map (dark ages)

7. Al-Idrisi 12th century

8. 12th century Chinese map

9. The Renaissance (> 1450): Ptolemy’s world is rediscovered

10. First map showing North America, 1502

11. Magellan’s circumnavigation of the earth 1519-1522

12. New National Atlas of France 1833

13. International Time zones 1878 (based on longitude) by Sanford Fleming Prime meridian set in Greenwich, 1851

14. The Atlas of Canada

15. Millionith Maps

16. Google Mania
Earth Browser

17. Mars Global Surveyor: Mars Orbiter Laser altimeter
Planetary mapping:
MARS: DEM resolution in the z = 30cm from LiDAR

18. Invention of printing press by Gutenberg, 1450
(though movable type was developed in China in 1041 by Bi Sheng)

19. 16th century woodcut: Newfoundland

20. Copper engraving 1596

21. Early 18th century colour map (hand coloured)

22. Digital plotting Cyan, Magenta Yellow, BlacK ink-jet printers CMYK
digital mapping: RGB (screen)
Cyan, Magenta
Yellow, BlacK

23. Digital /( Recreational mapping) 1990s ->
Increased access to data, hardware, software, and recreation

24. Homework Listen to CBC Radio ‘Spark’ episode called Scouts, Apps, Maps
-The future of collaborative digital mapping.
-What maps can tell us about...well, US!
-Mapping Canada's Arctic...with a tricycle.
-In an era of GPS directions, do you even know HOW to read a paper map?
**Discussion during the next class**