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Waldo Tobler  

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  • Waldo R. Tobler is a geographer and a cartographer who has done much to expand ideas about what can be mapped and how. He was closely associated with the quantitative revolution in the 1960s, leading the move to computer mapping, developing new map projections, and applying mathematical techniques to practical questions. [Source: Encyclopedia of Geography; Tobler, Waldo (1930–)]

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