https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Wed, 04 Jan 2017 19:43:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 https://www.maproomblog.com/2017/01/pantographs/ Wed, 04 Jan 2017 19:43:05 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=3701 More]]> Caitlin at Geo Lounge on pantographs: “Before the use of computers to replicate and manipulate maps, a pantograph was one of the ways used to either reduce or enlarge the size of a map while reproducing an accurate copy of the original map.” I did not know about pantographs—they seem to have been widely used in drawing and diagramming. Maps too, it would seem.

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