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Cartographer. After six months at Valparaiso, Balutis got a job at Rand McNally as a cartographer and worked there for six years. He later used his mathematical education to decode and develop his own diplomatic ciphers. As a cartographer, Balutis decided to prepare and publish a detailed map of ethnographic Lithuania in Lithuanian. He wanted ...
The former Thomas Bros. building, 17731 Cowan, Irvine, California. Thomas Guide is a series of paperback, spiral-bound atlases featuring detailed street maps of various large metropolitan areas in the United States, including Boise, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Oakland, Phoenix, Portland, Reno-Tahoe, Sacramento, San Francisco, Seattle, Tucson, and Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area.
1966 Rand McNally Western United States (Grand Junction CO and west, includes Alaska) - TCN7JM (talk · contribs) 1970 Rand McNally Western United States (Rapid City SD and west, includes Hawaii) - TCN7JM (talk · contribs) 1993 Rand McNally Central and Western United States - Rschen7754 (talk · contribs)
John Speed (1551 or 1552 – 28 July 1629) was an English cartographer, chronologer and historian of Cheshire origins. [1] The son of a citizen and Merchant Taylor in London, [2] he rose from his family occupation to accept the task of drawing together and revising the histories, topographies and maps of the Kingdoms of Great Britain as an exposition of the union of their monarchies in the ...
The Ranally city rating system is a tool developed by Rand McNally & Co. to classify U.S. cities based on their economic function. The system is designed to reflect an underlying hierarchy whereby consumers and businesses go to a city of a certain size for a certain function; some functions are widely available and others are only available in the largest cities.
Heinrich Karl Wilhelm Berghaus (3 May 1797 – 17 February 1884) was a German geographer and cartographer who conducted trigonometric surveys in Prussia and taught geodesy at the Bauakademie in Berlin. He taught cartography and produced a pioneering and influential thematic atlas which provided maps of flora, fauna, climate, geology, diseases ...
Arthur H. Robinson (January 5, 1915 – October 10, 2004) was an American geographer and cartographer, [1] who was professor in the Geography Department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1947 until he retired in 1980.
William Henry Rand (May 2, 1828 – June 20, 1915) was an American printer and co-founder of the Rand McNally publishing company. He was born in Quincy, Massachusetts , and as a young man was an apprentice at his brothers' print shop in Boston .