The Osborn Maitland Miller Cartographic Medal was established in 1968 by the American Geographical Society Council. The Osborn Maitland Miller Cartographic Medal honors "outstanding contributions in the field of cartography or geodesy".

History

Osborn Maitland Miller's forty-six year career with the American Geographical Society was only one of the many accomplishments of his career. While on staff, Miller headed, researched, and taught at the American Geographical Society’s School of Surveying, specializing in photogrammetry and cartography. He developed the

Miller cylindrical The Miller cylindrical projection is a modified Mercator projection, proposed by Osborn Maitland Miller in 1942. The latitude is scaled by a factor of , projected according to Mercator, and then the result is multiplied by to retain scale along ...

projection in 1942, and completed many other aerial photography and surveying projects. Miller was born in

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in 1897, and was educated at

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and the

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, after which he served as a regular officer in the Royal Field Artillery in the First World War, being awarded the Military Cross in 1917

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, 9 January 1918, p630 when he was severely injured. He became a US citizen in 1957 and died in 1979, in New York.

Recipients

The following people received the award in the year specified:"The O. M. Miller Cartographic Medal"
American Geographical Society. Retrieved June 17, 2010. * 1968: Richard Edes Harrison * 1989:

Waldo R. Tobler Waldo Rudolph Tobler (November 16, 1930 – February 20, 2018) was an American- Swiss geographer and cartographer. Tobler's idea that "Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things" is referred ...

* 1997:

Maidarjavyn Ganzorig Maidarjavyn Ganzorig ( mn, Майдаржавын Ганзориг; 5 February 1949 – 4 July 2021) was a Mongolian cosmonaut and academic. In 1978, he participated in the Soviet Intercosmos program and trained for the Soyuz 39 mission. Biog ...

* 1998: Chen Shupeng * 1998:

Arthur H. Robinson Arthur H. Robinson (January 5, 1915 – October 10, 2004) was an American geographer and cartographer, who was professor in the Geography Department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1947 until he retired in 1980. He was a prolific ...

* 2001:

Mark Monmonier Mark Stephen Monmonier (born February 2, 1943) is a Distinguished Professor of Geography and the Environment at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs of Syracuse University. He specializes in toponymy, geography, and geographic in ...

* 2017:

John Hanke John Hanke (born 1967) is an American technology executive. Hanke led Google's Geo product division, which includes Google Earth, Google Maps, StreetView, SketchUp, and Panoramio. He is founder and CEO of Niantic, Inc., a software company spu ...

and

Brian McClendon Brian A McClendon (born 1964) is an American software executive, engineer, and inventor. He was a co-founder and angel investor in Keyhole, Inc., a geospatial data visualization company that was purchased by Google in 2004 to produce Google Earth ...

* 2019:

Cynthia Brewer Cynthia A. Brewer is an American professor of geography at the Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, and author. She has worked as a map and atlas design consultant for the U.S. Census Bureau, National Cancer Institute, National Center fo ...

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{{American Geographical Society Awards of the American Geographical Society Awards established in 1968 1968 establishments in the United States

History

Recipients

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