Impossible to map the world–we select and make graphics so that we can understand it.

ROGER TOMLINSON
From his personal papers, 1981

Maps made places on the edges of the imagination seem graspable and placable.

ABDULRAZAK GURNAH
By the Sea, 2001

Maps come in many forms, and cartographic information can be represented in a variety of ways. The following pages include descriptions of the division's collections in the following formats:

• Digital Data and Geographic Information Systems
• Globes and Terrain Models