Have you ever been completely enthralled by a map? Many of us at Here & Now were mesmerized recently when we unraveled a new map of the U.S by Dave Imus. We ogled at the details! Pointed out familiar ...
Americans are notoriously oblivious about geography, says professional cartographer David Imus, and he's on a mission to change that. Imus, 53, blames the lack of knowledge partly on mapmakers, who ...
In the detail-oriented world of map making, the fact that this year's winner of the best map of America was a man who dedicated his life to the project himself rather than a large company did not go ...
Meed David Imus, the OCD cartographer behind one masterpiece of a map. It took him two years of daily labor to make his map of the USA, which has been officially named the greatest paper map of the ...
Details include Mount Chamberlin and Anaktuvuk Pass in Alaska. Details include the Missouri River headwaters in Montana. Details include Area 51 and Yucca Flat in Nevada. Dave Imus at a work table ...
American mapmaking’s most prestigious honor is the “Best of Show” award at the annual competition of the Cartography and Geographic Information Society. The five most recent winners were all maps ...
David Imus was $117,000 in debt. He’d spent two years working on his map “The Essential Geography of the United States of America,” and won the “Best of Show” award in the 2010 Cartography and ...
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