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Rand McNally began publishing educational maps in 1880 with its first line of maps, globes, and geography textbooks, soon followed by a world atlas. The company began publishing general literature in 1884 with its first title, The Secret of Success, and the Textbook department was established in 1894 with The Rand McNally Primary School Geography.
It was purchased by and became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Rand McNally in 1999. [1] The company made radical changes in operation beginning in November 2003, and let go many of Thomas Brothers' most skilled cartographers and employees. The Rand McNally CEO announced all Irvine data edits would be outsourced to Bangalore, India.
Agloe was originally a fictional hamlet in Colchester, Delaware County, New York, United States, that became an actual landmark after mapmakers made up the community as a phantom settlement, an example of a fictitious entry similar to a trap street, added to the map to catch plagiarism. Agloe is also known for its role in the American romantic ...
King of the Road Map Service was a map publishing and distribution company based out of Mill Creek, Washington. Library of Congress records for the company date back to 1982. [1] It was acquired by Rand McNally in 1999. [2] During its existence, it produced maps for the Pacific Northwest, including Washington, Oregon, and Idaho Many of its ...
The Robinson projection was devised by Arthur H. Robinson in 1963 in response to an appeal from the Rand McNally company, which has used the projection in general-purpose world maps since that time. Robinson published details of the projection's construction in 1974. The National Geographic Society (NGS) began using the Robinson projection for ...
General Drafting Corporation of Convent Station, New Jersey, founded by Otto G. Lindberg in 1909, was one of the "Big Three" road map publishers in the United States from 1930 to 1970, along with H.M. Gousha and Rand McNally. [1] Unlike the other two, General Drafting did not sell its maps to a variety of smaller customers, but was the ...
Contents. Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Resources/Map database. arch. This is a database of users and the maps that they have. If you have a question regarding a road in a specific area and time, and a user has a map from that area and time period, they may be able to help. If you have a map, please add your name below.
Hammond's Complete Map of Ohio, 1909. Hammond Map or Hammond World Atlas Corporation is an American map company. It was formerly an operating subsidiary of the Langenscheidt Publishing Group, a major map publisher in the United States, but was sold to Universal Map, an affiliate of Kappa Publishing Group, in 2010.