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Most satisfied city in Europe – how does yours compare?
What can truly determine a city residents level of satisfaction? Satisfaction may be measured by health care services, education services, level of safety, employment opportunity, or even for some, the...
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Scare Story or an Inevitability?
With just one week before the historic referendum for Scotland’s independence from the UK, Labour leader Ed Miliband revealed that guards will be put on the Scottish border, where passport and ID...
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Fifty Shades of Grey (Map)
Fifty Shades of Grey The erotic romance film, Fifty Shades of Grey, based on the hugely successful novel by EL James, was released on Valentine’s Day weekend in around forty countries around the world....
View ArticleThe Impartial Cartographer and Disputed Territories
The use of geographic names on maps has been a contentious issue since the first maps were produced – local variants are present in all parts of the globe and surveyors and cartographers have long...
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Lovell Johns – A History of Cartography
The early history of cartography can be traced back many millennia to early cave paintings in Greece and Babylonia. The first identified world map is from circa 600BC, the Imago Mundi or Babylonian Map...
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2015
Frankfurt Book Fair is the biggest book fair in the world; every October thousands of publishers from around the world gather together to exhibit their new titles and to look at how to sell or license...
View Article5 Ways Your Organisation Can Utilise the Ordnance Survey MasterMap Topography...
1. Manage Your Assets For improved management and maintenance efficiencies, create an accurate geographic view of your properties or assets. By relying purely on tabular data, out of date paper maps or...
View ArticleA Day in the Life of a Cartographer
As a cartographer at Lovell Johns, no two days are the same, so I will try to describe an average day. 8.15am My day starts the same as most – checking on e-mails from the night before, and catching up...
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Types of Map Projections
Have you ever stood in front of a map and glanced down at the words ‘Mercator projection’ or Lambert Conformal Conic projection’? Have you seen an unusually shaped representation of the Earth in a...
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Lovell Johns wins new European Commission contract
Web-based GIS portal, developed by Lovell Johns to map marine and maritime data, renewed for a further two years Lovell Johns has been awarded a renewed contract as part of a consortium of companies...
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Improve visitor experience with custom maps for holiday parks
With staycations on the rise, holiday parks need to deliver a seamless guest experience From glamping to caravanning – the UK’s ‘staycation’ trend is growing. Customised, branded maps for holiday...
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What happens when a country changes its name?
Name changes can have quite an impact on map making and cartography When a country decides to change its name, the impact is huge across a wide range of administrative platforms. From airline names to...
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A Mapping Process – how cartographers approach illustrated projects
From start to finish, an illustrated mapping process or project gives cartographers a lot to think about. The first major decision to make when engaging with an illustrator is to decide, in...
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Mapping diseases – then and now
Visualising historic map data in a modern Geographic Information System (GIS) setting It goes without saying that with a rise in technological advancements and shared data, it bears reflection that...
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Drawing the line – a selection of map making challenges
The world is constantly changing, and as cartographers, it can be a challenge keeping up with current events and the impact on map making We thought it might be interesting to take a look at a few...
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Fighting the bad press – the case for positive drone use in mapping solutions
Five sectors increasingly using drones for survey and mapping purposes Drones have been in the news a lot recently, not least for causing 36 hours of chaos including the cancellation of about 1,000...
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The Variety of Mapping Solutions sought by Publishers
A publisher can be defined as ‘a company or person that prepares and issues books, journals, or music for sale’. As cartographers, we talk to publishers every day as they seek our specialist skills in...
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5 production processes in map making that are no longer in use
The process of map making has changed hugely in the last 50 years and many original skills are now obsolete. However, it is always interesting to look back to the ‘good old days’ and see how a drawing...
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Fifty Shades of Grey (Map)
Fifty Shades of Grey The erotic romance film, Fifty Shades of Grey, based on the hugely successful novel by EL James, was released on Valentine’s Day weekend in around forty countries around the world....
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The use of geographic names on maps has been a contentious issue since the first maps were produced – local variants are present in all parts of the globe and surveyors and cartographers have long...
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