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[Geographx]

If any of you cartographers out there who worked on this Atlas used MAPublisher and/or Geographic Imager at all in any part of your workflow we'd love to hear about it.
Kindly let us know by replying to this post or by emailing info@avenza.com
Thanks
Ted

We (Geographx) did the relief mapping for Earth and some of the cartography also (NZ, USA, plus bits of some other maps). Kind of ruled our lives for a while! A few (more) grey hairs but an experience not to be missed and a project we are thrilled to have been part of. Damien Demaj had the hardest job - that man deserves a medal. We didn't use MP to generate the relief obviously but we did for the rest.
Cheers
Roger (Smith)

[Hans van der Maarel]

Didn't Ortelius or someone make an atlas for a royal or imperial patron with a 5 or 6 foot long binding?
That would have been a hefty tome as well.

I've seen a really big one, 6-7 feet tall, in the University of Berlin. Was a gift from some 17th century diplomat to the ruler of the city iirc.

[ErinGreb]

I worked on this as well, and as the article mentions, am one of the people who needed to upgrade to a new system to manage the files that were involved! This is going to be an incredible publication, I can't wait to see it.

-Erin

www.eringrebcartography.com

[Greg]

I picked up a copy of Earth Concise over the holidays at my local Costco!

I was very surprised to see it there, and the price was incredibly low... ($46.00 Canadian!)

It was a proud moment when I found my name in the credits...

It is absolutely gorgeous.. The photography is stunning and the maps look great combined with a massive amount of interesting content.

The book is so heavy, I'm considering canceling my gym membership!

[François Goulet]

I picked up a copy of Earth Concise over the holidays at my local Costco!

I was very surprised to see it there, and the price was incredibly low... ($46.00 Canadian!)

It was a proud moment when I found my name in the credits...

It is absolutely gorgeous.. The photography is stunning and the maps look great combined with a massive amount of interesting content.

The book is so heavy, I'm considering canceling my gym membership!

Congratulations!

I've search for it to buy it online and didn't found it. Never thought of Costco!

Thanks for the tip

[natcase]

Didn't Ortelius or someone make an atlas for a royal or imperial patron with a 5 or 6 foot long binding?
That would have been a hefty tome as well.

Yes, and there was a raft of Really Big Atlases in the 19th century. One-off creations for monarchs. They had one at the Field Museum maps show last year:

In Atlas des Groβen Kurfürsten (Atlas of the Great Elector)
Giovanni Antonio Magini, Italian
1665
Printed maps, bound in leather and gold
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin-Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Map Department
Call Number: gr.2° Kart.B396

from the PDF catalog

There's a fuller description in a blog here.

But I guess this is largest production, published atlas.

[Casey Greene]

I picked up a copy of Earth Concise over the holidays at my local Costco!

I was very surprised to see it there, and the price was incredibly low... ($46.00 Canadian!)

Has anyone seen it in the states? i tryed looking at my costco, but they didnt have it

[Greg]

Has anyone seen it in the states? i tryed looking at my costco, but they didnt have it

Try contacting Gordon Cheers, or anyone at Millenum House.
They must have a distribution list somewhere?

Millennium House
52 Bolwarra Rd
Elanora Heights
NSW 2101 Australia
Ph (612) 9970 6850
info@millenniumhouse.com.au