| Frisius was not only one of the leading astronomers of his time, he was also a superb mapmaker. |
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| It could mean prison or death if the mapmaker found himself in the wrong place, or the winds changed. |
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| What is more, the earth's surface is simply far too complicated for a mapmaker to reproduce all of it together. |
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| What process is there in Bill C-18 that would exempt us from naming, heaven forbid, a Liberal mapmaker? |
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| In 1604, Sieur de Monts and explorer and mapmaker Samuel de Champlain sailed from France with their crew to start a colony in the New World. |
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| Other tools enable the mapmaker to add patterns, symbols and lettering and progressively builds up the map on the screen. |
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| He was a good student and the skills he learned at the school prepared him for his future career as a fur trader and mapmaker in Canada. |
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| An English mapmaker, Max Vigne, leaves behind his wife and a child he has never seen to work as a topographical surveyor in 1860s India. |
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| The vineyard of Fourcas Dupré were already situated at a place called Fourcas on maps drawn in the 18th century by Louis XV's mapmaker, Belleyme. |
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| Explorer, fur trader and mapmaker, David Thompson used Rocky Mountain House as a base for finding a pass across the Rocky Mountains to access the Ktunaxa and other potential partners. |
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| This film examines the life of David Thompson from his youth at the Grey Coat School in London through his active years as a fur trader, mapmaker and surveyor to his last poverty-stricken days in Montréal. |
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| In other words, the mapmaker has eliminated the entire southeastern corner of British Columbia and adjacent Alberta, and filled it in with an enlarged map of the central portion of the Rocky Mountains. |
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| Fur trader, mapmaker and explorer David Thompson lived for a time at Rocky Mountain House as an employee of the North West Company, and used it as a base for exploring a route across the Rocky Mountains. |
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| Uugaq was a capable mapmaker with extensive knowledge of the land and sea. |
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| In 1519, a map produced by the Genoese mapmaker Visconte Maggiolo showed and named Barbados in its correct position. |
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| Retired police mapmaker Thomas Graveson, 66, said Christine was found in a field near Gosford House, beside the A198 leading from Gosford Sands. |
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| Just five years since the release of Google Maps and Google Earth, the corporation may well be the world's most important mapmaker. |
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| There are so few residents in Quebec in these corridors that it is the only area where the mapmaker did not think it was necessary to publish a large-scale map. |
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| The mapmaker must choose a suitable map projection according to the space to be mapped and the purpose of the map. |
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| In the end Walter is most closely allied with Mr Quill, the romantic mapmaker, who – like the storyteller in The Gift of Stones – is excluded from the world of practical work by his damaged arm. |
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| So how does Google Maps, the most heavily-consulted mapmaker, deal with disputed borders? All maps are political constructions: even the most carefully drawn will betray some geopolitical bias. |
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| When traditional print cartographers are faced with questionable borders, they have a number of options, all of which require judgement from the mapmaker. |
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| In 1556 the Venetian mapmaker Giacomo Gastaldi completely filled the interior parts of Atlantic Canada with highly imaginative views of the landscape and its people. |
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| Of course the government benches would say it was a Tory mapmaker. |
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| That year De Monts, his mapmaker Samuel de Champlain and the crew left France on the ship Bonne Renommée and arrived at Tadoussac, a fur-trading centre, to start a colony. |
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| A designer, inventor, engineer, mathematician, architect, mapmaker, philosopher, poet and much more, the American Richard Buckminster Fuller is sometimes called the 20th-century Leonardo da Vinci. |
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| These are all internal events and phenomenon of the mind of the mapmaker. |
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| Work on the map began in 2009 using information that was already public, much of it available on the Internet, said volunteer mapmaker Hwang Min-woo, 28, of Seoul. |
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