Publishers

Online References and Print Publishing
A Publishers Weekly article on the impact of online references like Wikipedia on reference publishing — multi-volume encyclopedias are essentially toast — has the following passage about maps and atlases: Encyclopedias aren’t the only place publishers are feeling pain, though…. »
Posted on Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 10:45 AM
Categories: Books, Publishers
Map Publishers in Court over Folding Method
Two map publishers — Compass Maps and GeoCenter publishing group — are in court over an origami-based method of folding maps, The Times reports in a brief article. “Compass Maps say they created the ‘star-fold’ map and developed the brand… »
Posted on Monday, April 21, 2008 at 8:44 AM
Categories: Publishers
DeLorme Profiled
Another profile of map publisher (and now GPS maker) DeLorme, this time from the Bangor Daily News’s Bill Graves. DeLorme got its start mapping Maine, so no surprise that the Maine media likes to cover the company’s history: local success… »
Posted on Sunday, April 13, 2008 at 5:07 PM
Categories: GPS, Industry News, Publishers
Cassini Maps Profile
The Independent profiles the two guys behind Cassini Maps, a company founded in 2005 that publishes enhanced reproductions of old maps…. »
Posted on Tuesday, May 8, 2007 at 9:35 AM
Categories: Publishers
DeLorme’s Early History
A look at map publisher DeLorme, particularly its origins in the 1970s when it got its start making maps of Maine’s private lands (maps of which were woefully out of date at that point), in yesterday’s Central Maine Morning Sentinel…. »
Posted on Sunday, January 28, 2007 at 10:37 AM
Categories: Publishers
A Profile of a One-Man Cartography Company
The Northwest Herald, a suburban Chicago paper, has a profile of local cartographer Tom Wilcockson, whose one-man company, Mapcraft, specializes in custom cartography work. Each project takes him between two weeks and a month to complete, so this is cartography… »
Posted on Wednesday, January 17, 2007 at 9:23 AM
Categories: Publishers
Fishing Maps from Aerial Photographs
Still catching up on some older stories. Two weeks ago, the Florida Times-Union profiled a local home-based business, Outfitter’s Mapping, that produces aerial photographic maps of Florida fishing areas. Via All Points Blog…. »
Posted on Sunday, December 24, 2006 at 7:12 PM
Categories: Publishers, Satellite & Aerial
Rand McNally Turns 150
The Associated Press’s Dave Carpenter takes a look at map publisher Rand McNally on the occasion of its 150th anniversary, looking back on its history and at its future challenges (especially in re digital mapping). “[F]ollowing two ownership changes… »
Posted on Monday, October 16, 2006 at 11:06 AM
Categories: Publishers, Roads
Phyllis Pearsall
The 100th anniversary of Phyllis Pearsall’s birth was celebrated in the UK on Monday. She founded the A-Z Map Company in 1936 to publish a (now-legendary) map of London — which she compiled by walking 3,000 miles’ worth of… »
Posted on Wednesday, September 27, 2006 at 11:41 AM
Categories: London, Publishers
Thomas Guides, Navteq on KPCC
On Friday the 7th, there was an item on mapping on Patt Morrison’s afternoon show on 89.3 KPCC, a public radio station based in Pasadena, California. On deck were representatives from Thomas Brothers Maps and Navteq; much of the focus… »
Posted on Tuesday, July 18, 2006 at 12:24 AM
Categories: Mapping Errors, Podcasts & Audio, Publishers, Roads, Surveying
Japanese Value-Added Maps
Japanese map publishers are responding to the challenge of car navigation systems by shifting their focus to so-called “value-added maps,” the Asahi Shimbun reports in a profile of Maruzen, a Tokyo bookstore with a large map section. According to [Jinbun-sha… »
Posted on Monday, May 22, 2006 at 9:32 AM
Categories: Dealers & Stores, Publishers
Mapmaker Fined for Infringing Sherlock’s Copyright
A Calgary mapmaker has been fined C$8,000 for making a cheap knock-off of a competitor’s city atlas. The judge ruled that Commodore Allen’s AMI Calgary Street Atlas infringed the copyright of Sherlock Publishing’s atlas of Calgary, saying that the differences… »
Posted on Sunday, April 23, 2006 at 9:33 AM
Categories: Cities, Copyright, Publishers, Roads
A Brief History of Rand McNally
Samuel John Klein’s Brief History of Rand McNally is up on Designorati today. Interesting to see that William Rand and Andrew McNally started with railroads (road travel was some decades away); their first map, in 1872, was the Railway Guide…. »
Posted on Wednesday, November 16, 2005 at 12:19 PM
Categories: Publishers, Roads

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