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Mapping The World

This review summarizes the book "Mapping the World", an 8-book educational series about the history and uses of maps. It describes how the series covers historical mapmakers like Ptolemy and Mercator, different types of map projections, and hypothetical future uses of maps. The reviewer praises the detailed information provided in the long but engaging series, saying it is filled with "seeds of cartography" that allow the reader to understand the field of mapmaking.

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Mapping The World

This review summarizes the book "Mapping the World", an 8-book educational series about the history and uses of maps. It describes how the series covers historical mapmakers like Ptolemy and Mercator, different types of map projections, and hypothetical future uses of maps. The reviewer praises the detailed information provided in the long but engaging series, saying it is filled with "seeds of cartography" that allow the reader to understand the field of mapmaking.

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Mapping the World

Review by Umar A., age 10, Central New Jersey Mensa

Every day, people around the world use maps. Whether it is an airplane pilot
or businessman, housewife or museum group, maps have always and will
continue to provide useful information for all.

Mapping the World talks about the uses of maps, as well as how to
differentiate between the type of map projection and type of map.

In this series, we travel to the past and learn about historical mapmakers, from
Claudius Ptolemy (who stated the idea that the Earth is at the center of the
universe) to Gerardus Mercator (who created one of the most widely used
map projections) and more. This series goes into tremendous detail on the
cartographer's life and maps. We then journey to the present era to learn
about map projections and the diverse types of maps used today. You might
ask, "What is the difference between the two? They sound the same to me."
No map projection is perfect, because you cannot really flatten a sphere into a
rectangle. An uncolored projection could be used in many ways. We could use
it for population concentration, highways, land elevation, and so many other
things!

For example, we could make a topographic map of the U.S., which shows
land elevation. We could make it a colorful map that shows the amount of
pollution in different areas, or it could be a population map, or it could even be
a map that shows the 50 states, their capitals and borders! Our last step in
this amazing excursion is the near future, where we see some hypothetical
solutions as to what maps will be used for. Currently, we are working on better
virtual map technology.

Now, scientists have been able to put maps on phones. Back in the early
1900s, people had to lug a lot of maps around to find your way from place to
place, or just keep asking for directions. Now, all the information is on a phone
or global positioning system (GPS). It is amazing how much maps have
changed technology and the world in this century.

The Mapping the World 8-book set goes into amazing levels of detail. It is a
long read, but it gives an immense range and amount of information that you
would not find in any other book or series on maps. The flowing way the
chapters and books are organized makes it easy to link passages from
different books in this series together. Mapping the World is a treasure box,
filled with the seeds of cartography. Collect and plant them, and you soon will
have the fruits of cartography, beneficial to those who want to be
cartographers. Use this series to the utmost, then the fruits of mapping will be
sweet for all who endeavor to succeed in cartography.

This series of lessons was designed to meet the needs of gifted children for
extension beyond the standard curriculum with the greatest ease of use for
the educator. The lessons may be given to the students for individual self-
guided work, or they may be taught in a classroom or a home-school setting.
Assessment strategies and rubrics are included at the end of each section.
The rubrics often include a column for "scholar points," which are invitations
for students to extend their efforts beyond that which is required, incorporating
creativity or higher level technical skills.

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