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Tuesday, March 11th, 2014

Mapping Our World: National Library Finds Map to Exhibition Success

The National Library’s blockbuster exhibition of maps, which closed on the weekend, was the library’s most successful show ever, bringing 118,264 visitors through the door. This number surpassed the library’s last record-breaking show in 2001, Treasures from...

Sunday, August 25th, 2013

Philippine Self-esteem Grows with Cartography

“Putting the Philippines on the Map,” an exhibit organized by the Philippine Map Collectors Society (Phimcos) to help promote a sense of national pride, is on view at the Mall of Asia main lobby until Sept. 1....

Thursday, August 15th, 2013

Leica Displays Next Generation UAV for Mining

The Aibotix Aibot X6 and SwissDrones Dragon 35 are the new generation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) that will be one of the highlights at the Leica Geosystems Mining stand at AIMEX this year.  The UAVs are...

Wednesday, August 14th, 2013

Old Maps Offer Historical Insight Into How India Got Its Borders

Old maps, detailing the lay of the land as well as providing insights into pre-independent India and the changes that occurred after Partition, are now on exhibit here. An unseen collection dating back to the 18th century...

Tuesday, June 12th, 2012

China Donates a Model of their BeiDou/COMPASS Satellite

On the sidelines of the 55th session of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS), the Chinese BeiDou/COMPASS satellite model was inaugurated on 8 June 2012 in Vienna, Austria. The model is donated by...

Sunday, May 8th, 2011

A Celebration of Korean Cartography

These days, maps are created with satellite imagery and finding a destination on a map is just one click away on the Internet. But in earlier days, mapmaking was an arduous task that took years of research. The...