Category: Map Education
2012 Geography Awareness Week
This week is Geography Awareness Week! Thanks to the 1987 legislation signed by Ronald Regan, Geography Awareness week exists to promote geographic education in American public schools every third week of November. Each year, a new theme is celebrated. This year’s theme is “Declare your Interdependence!”, urging today’s youth to observe their connection to the…
How to Read Your Atlas: Front to Back
It’s unique to Benchmark Maps to have this intuitive layout – we do a front-to-back progression that begins with a national perspective, moving into a regional view, finishing with a very localized landscape. In other words, we organize our maps “outside-in”. 1. Legend Provided on the inside cover of the atlas for easy referencing, our legend…
Digital Map Collections of the American West
Summer is upon us, and millions of Americans will take to the road for their own personalized and memorable version of the Great American Road Trip. Along with bringing along some of the fine and detailed cartographic creations offered from Benchmark Maps, the curious traveler will want to look over these fine digital map collections…