• famed Swiss cartographer Eduard Imhof lived in a Tibetan monastery while he recorded the height and location of the highest peak outside of the Himalayas, Minya Konka?
• Marcin Kromer was a 16th century Prince-Bishop of Warmia, cartographer, and historian in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth?
• French cartographer Jacques Bertin was the first to provide a theoretical foundation to Information Visualization?
• cartographer Jan Martin Larsen was a pioneer in the development of the specialized orienteering map?

Facts on topics related to Cartographer

Ottoman

• Istanbul's Vefa Kilise Mosque (pictured) is an example of a Byzantine church since converted into an Ottoman mosque?
• Daskalogiannis was an 18th-century Cretan rebel skinned alive by Ottoman rulers?
• Suleiman the elephant, named after the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, became the first elephant to visit Vienna in March 1552?
• Zarafa was a giraffe presented to Charles X of France from Mehmet Ali Pasha, the Ottoman Viceroy of Egypt in 1826, to encourage the King of France to end his support for the Greeks in their fight for independence?
• in the Polish-Ottoman War of 1672-1676, a few years before crippling the Ottomans at the Battle of Vienna, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was forced to sign an unfavorable treaty with the Empire?
• the Khedive Palace in Istanbul, Turkey, once a mansion for Ottoman governors, now serves as an upscale restaurant?
• the striking of a French consul with a fly-whisk by Ottoman ruler Hussein Dey was used as a pretext for the invasion of Algiers?

Flanders

• Hans Eworth was a Flemish artist of the Tudor court known for his allegorical paintings and his portraits of Queen Mary I (pictured)?
• Ignace Michiels of St. Salvator's Cathedral has been the organist for the German-Flemish Reger-Chor in works such as Reger's Requiem?
• Sir Edwin Lutyens included a landscaped circular depression in his design for the Hooge Crater Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery (pictured) in Flanders, to evoke the mine craters that once surrounded it?
• only three works of Egardus, a fourteenth century composer whose music was known in Flanders, Italy, and Poland, are known to have survived?
• the sarcophagus of King Gustav I of Sweden and his consorts at Uppsala Cathedral (pictured) had once been confiscated by authorities in Antwerp because the Flemish sculptor Willem Boy was in debt?
• the Master of Anthony of Burgundy was one of the Flemish miniature painters of the late 15th century, and may have made the first engravings for books?
• the Peeters directive describes French-speaking residents of Flanders, Belgium, having the right to use French to deal with the government as being "exceptional" and "temporary"?