who is mapping the world?
820906
there are many satellites mapping the earth and not all of them are owned by the US gov. regardless of what paranoid europeans want to believe. The french own the SPOT sattelites and quickbird and orbview are privately owned. Different sattelittes monitor and are used to map different features such as land use and land cover, ocean temperatures, weather, geological data, ecological data and a host of other things
524666
There have been tremendous efforts to create world map.Early maps shown only the continents of Europe,North Africa China and India.It was after the discovery of America the landmass was known.Southern most tip of America was found when Megallean crossed the Strait.Navigaters had to travel along coastline to visualize the size and extent of landmasses.This was done in case of Australia.These were some important milestones but conformed maps could only be built after invention of satellite imagery.
137687
Mapping.  More directly mapping the world in way computers can use.\n\nMapquest and population displays are two examples
422506
He was a map maker before he went out sailing.  For sure it was he who realized that what had been discovered was a new continent, not East Asia, and it was his writings that flew across Europe and made people aware of this new continent.\n\nHe claimed that he knew a new land had been discovered by determining the longitude of the eastern South American continent, but it turns out this claim of his was a lie.  He was something of a rogue...\n\nSo probably, he realized a new land had been discovered because he had been into map making so long that it just came to him.
830894
Give us a hint, what continent are you on?
91159
Yes the whole planet.\n\nOne world order commeth! LOL
523761
In past times, drawing maps was an extremely difficult task: without airplanes, maps were built together by joining many heterogeneous measurements and observations from different explorers, on earth and oceans all around the world. Every map was somehow unique and contained big flaws. If you look at the maps of South America from the years 1500-1600, you will see that there is no west border of Peru, because the Pacific Ocean was still unknown, and other big lands as Australia and Antarctica were absent...!\nAs the explorations increased, the maps improved, but the process was slow.\n\nA quality leap took place with the introduction of aerial photographs. Putting together photographs with a little bit of geometry, you can easily derive precise maps. Still, it requires a lot of work.\n\nNowadays, the entire Earth surface is monitored real-time by orbiting satellites, with an accuracy of a few meters. Starting from these data, image-processing computers can automatically draw maps in 2D or 3D as part of an almost fully automated process. No differences can be found between today's maps, because they rely on the same measurements and there is very little margin to any improvement. So, we can say that today, the Earth mapping and the matching between different maps is a completely solved problem.
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The Perry-Castañeda Library library at the University of Texas at Austin has one of the best downloadable map collections on the net. There are country maps, city maps, historical maps, thematic maps showing industry, land use, minerals, population, and there are links to other map sources. \n\nhttp://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/spain.html\n\nGoogle Earth has its place in geography, but is hardly the best source of geographic information. It is excellent for examining topography.
880129
Google, Wikipedia, and United States Coast Guard maps only indicate Antarctica.\n\nThe only other possibilities, which I doubt, are either New Zealand or Chile.
733815
all you have to do is go to google, and type in googleearth, u can see the who world, by satilite pictures! It is really cool!
157761
worldwide? its impossible to tell
637308
I don't mean to be sarcastic, but have you looked at a map?
757872
There are many atlases, which one are you specifically talking about?
30658
Try downloading the program Google Earth. you can find it at http://www.google.com\n\nIt is a map of everything!
1024590
It's called a RELIEF map.
65189
How exactly are they taking over the world?
182938
What is the world coming to.