With the recent passing of Waldo R. Tobler, the twin disciplines of geography and cartography have lost one of its giants. Waldo Tobler was born in Switzerland in 1930, and passed away on 20 February 2018, with 87. Tobler was a professor in the Geography Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, teaching geography, computational cartography, and statistics from 1977 until he retired in 1994. He was an active professor emeritus at the University of California

The famous Cantino World Chart is one of the most influential maps ever made and it has a very interesting history. It is an anonymous Portuguese manuscript world map. It is the earliest surviving map showing the new discoveries by the Portuguese in Brazil, Newfoundland, Greenland, Africa, and India. And, because it is the first map to shed the regressive influences of both Medieval and Renaissance mapmaking, it is also the first truly modern world map. It is named for Albert

Santo Agostinho dizia que se lhe não perguntassem o que era o tempo ele saberia o que era, mas se lhe pedissem uma explicação, aí ficaria falto de palavras. Ora, o mesmo sucede com uma aparente trivialidade: uma carta náutica medieval do Mediterrâneo. Uma carta portulano (outro nome dado a estas cartas) parece uma representação realista desse mar, consentânea com a navegação aí praticada na Idade Média. Mas se olharmos mais de perto, veremos que a aparência realista não é o p