Category Archives: map making

China draws world’s first land cover map of Antarctica

Posted on October 6, 2010 by Rashid Faridi

Chinese scientific researchers successfully drew a 1:100,000 scale land cover map of all of Antarctica under the support of the National 863 Program. This is the world’s first land cover map of Antarctica and the first batch of Chinese-owned important … Continue reading →

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Google has done it Again: Open StreetMap Gives Kashmir To China, Pakistan

Posted on September 20, 2010 by Rashid Faridi

Google was recently under fire for displaying PoK as part of Pakistan on the Google Maps. The issue was raised by the minister of state for communications and IT Sachin Pilot. Google seemingly responded and amended the map, giving Kashmir … Continue reading →

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Some Basic Facts about Maps from an Old Book

Posted on June 15, 2010 by Rashid Faridi

While reading an old book by Captain R.P.Cave found some easy and useful facts about maps and thought of sharing with you all.Here they are: A map is a representation on paper of a certain area of country. Fundamentally, a … Continue reading →

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