The albedo39 Satellitenbildwerkstatt e.K. was founded by Claudius Diemer in September 2006. The company produces and distributes satellite image maps and art printings on the basis of satellite data. The company's philosophy is a deeper use of the aesthetic criteria of satellite images in order to offer satellite image maps in a new quality.

Amberpress is a lifestyle publisher of Berlin, with special interest in art, design and architecture.
Icoon, a global picture dictionary for travellers and design lovers, is their publishing debut.

Around 1540, Emperor Karl V. put in charge the cartographer Gerhard Mercator to create a drawing of a new map collection. Karl V. wanted to have the Holy German Empire as well as the world, shown as it was known in this time.
Antica released those old maps of the XVII - XVIII. century, printed on artificially aged parchment paper. The collection contains the oldest maps of different regions. A decorative gift for any occasion.

The fascination of explorations determines mankind's development. With their true to nature representation and accuracy, Columbus globes show a uniquely realistic view of our world. The experience and knowledge gathered over nearly 100 years blended with the finest production technology allows a great choice of beautiful Columbus globes, available with glass, acrylic or plastic ball and many different sizes.

The publishing company Editions du Breil publishes travel-guides for the navigable rivers and channels in France. The owner of Editions du Breil, John Riddel, actively took part in numerous projects about development, overhauling and lucrativesess of the navigable waterways in France and abroad. His initiative mainly concentrated on the breton channels, the Canal du Midi, the Canal de Montech, the Marne-Saône-Canal, the Nivernais-Canal and all navigable waterways in New York etc.
The headquater of Editions du Breil is in Castelnaudary, south of France.

The integrity of a map is something hard to ignore. Antique maps are sought after as collectibles and we all use many different maps in our everday lives. The Future Mapping Company sets out to combine this character with a strong focus on design to enhance the visual of cartography. World reference maps for the twenty first century. The vision has been to modernise the traditional design of existing world maps through the use of up to date colour combinations and printing techniques to offer a stylish contemporary graphic choice.

Gizi Map is a Hungarian map publishing company situated in Budapest. The cartographer Gizella Bassa has founded the company in 1993. GiziMap has specialised on maps of the Baltic States, Central Asia, the Balkans and some countries of Eastern Europe as well as countries of conflict, such as Irak and Afghanistan. It took only a short time for GiziMap to get a good reputation in the international map branch.

Global Mapping was formed in January 2002 offering a wealth of experience in mapping and is based in Brackley, Northamptonshire, offering the full range of GIS and DTP solutions producing maps for print, CD, GIS or Internet. Global Mapping are publishers of a range of Wall Maps including The World, Europe, Africa and British Isles and SkyView Posters.

GM Johnson & Associates is a cartography company specializing in street maps of the North American market. GM Johnson uses advanced technology to design and publish maps and has built a solid business over a 16-year period. In a relatively short period of time they have produced a large collection of maps and atlases (more than 320 titles).

Go Trekkers has over 14 years experience selling maps & travel books. This includes travel maps, topographic maps, aeronautical maps, nautical maps, hiking maps, digital maps with gps, oil & gas maps & travel guides, as well as an interesting series of maps of Canadian national parks. GoTrekkers staff have travelled to many countries using maps & guides for driving, flying & trekking, whether it be by car, helicopter, plane, boat, train, bicycle, motorbike or on foot, for business & for pleasure. GoTrekkers aims to be as eco-friendly as possible, if they have the choice to promote an environmentally friendly product over a non-environmentally friendly product they will do so.

Hema Maps Pty Ltd is a Brisbane-based private company. In 1983, Hema Maps started distributing the Queensland Government’s mapping range within the state. 1989 saw Hema Maps publish their first map - Rockhampton, a central Queensland city in which Hema had established a very strong market presence. Ever since, Hema Maps have made a name for themselves with the resources they spend and the substantial fieldwork they perform to gather information and update maps. 

harms-ic-verlag was founded in 1994. Their goal was to create qualitative, high class, easy readable and colourful balanced maps for individual tourist. At first the company specialised on Greek Islands. A first successful cartography series was created with the Crete maps, scale 1:100.000. These series is popular by trekking tourist as well as travellers by car. In 1998, the publishing house entered a new territory in cartographical work by making a map of Zanzibar, scale 1:100.000. Together with the Tanzanian agency, harms-ic-verlag released maps of the National Parks, which are regularly updated. Staff is continually on research – they often register whole areas by GPS. In 2001, harms-ic-verlag produced road and travel maps of Tanzania on basis from digital area data.

It all began as a partnership between a frustrated Australien cartographer who loved South America and railed against the inadequacies of maps of that continent and a Canadian map distributer and retailer who was equally frustrated by the lack of maps related to South America for his customers. That was 1983. The key to success was the release of the first country map in 1990, Costa Rica, just as tourism to that country started to explode. Other beautiful creations followed and suddenly ITMB was a recognized name and they found themselves filling a niche that everyone else had ignored.

Jenny Lefferts is the entrepreneurial force behind MAD Maps, and although she has been a motorcycle enthusiast for years, her passion for scenic road travel began long before she was licensed to ride. Her father's idea of a summer vacation was to load up the family in the 72 VW bus and take to the road. In 1987, Jenny moved to San Francisco and purchased her first motorcycle. She was instantly hooked and began searching the area for the best scenic roads. The seed for MAD Maps was planted and shortly thereafter, the company was launched.

Since 1888 the National Geographic Society has supported worldwide more than 7.000 expeditions and projects. The maps and globes have helped to tell the stories of these adventures with their accuracy, their distinct editorial style and their cartographic excellence. Each product plays a key role in meeting the goal to understand the world and all that is in it. National Geographic meet the world-class standards you expect from them.

Nicolson Maps commenced trading in 1979 when Malcolm Nicolson identified a need for good quality local street maps. Mr. Nicolson left the Ordnance Survey after many years service, on deciding to fulfil his ambition of establishing his own business, producing and supplying maps. After extensive research and considerable effort, his first map was published in 1979.  It was the forerunner of a wide range of maps now produced in the distinctive style of Nicolson Maps. Robin Nicolson now occupies a key role in maintaining the family-based work ethic which drives the business.

One Day Walks is in fact a hobby that’s gotten out of hand. Because they realised that other guides often did not meet up with their expectations and wishes, they came up with the idea to make one ourselves. All three of them work in the communication business and therefore had some ideas about concept and design. And because they definitely wanted to do their own thing, they decided to become publishers by themselves. In 2006 One Day Walks published their first book, Walking on Menorca, in Dutch. Then they really got cracking with the publications of Devon (2007), Corfu (2008), Värmland (2009), Rhodes (2010) and Västernorrland (2011).

Since the foundation in 1989 Planet Observer have been specialised in the Planet production of satellite imagery. Engineers process the raw satellite data in natural colours and then assemble them to a homogeneous mosaic in order to cover large territories, ranging from a region up to the whole planet. The satellite posters of Planet Observer are instructive and amazing maps.

In the year 1868 William Rand and Andrew McNally founded together a printing company. Four years later Rand McNally became a publishing house, in 1872 the first map was published, in 1880 the first world atlas, then the first road atlases. Rand McNally offer high cartographic competence based on an unsurpassed data collection. They are the specialists for road maps and atlases of the North American continent.

Raven Press Maps have been publishing beautiful wall maps for 20 years. Every map is created with attention to detail and elegance, from gathering the base information to the final color adjustment on the printing press. The One World map is a striking example of cartographic art presenting three globe views progressively rotated to show the whole earth as if by time-lapse photography.

A tribute to mapmakers and seafarers - This map of RayWorld that illustrated the modern world in an antique way is both decorative and educational and is based on actual facts taken from contemporary referential literature and in cooperation with experts from the field. How many of you have played games involving pirated and buried treasure like the ever-popular Peter Pan and Captain Hook? It is an ideal tool for learning and can be placed anywhere from the office to a children's bedroom. Just looking at the map makes one want to travel to unknown places in search of hidden treasure.

Since 1992 SELAS Ltd. has been publishing high-quality maps and touring guides, which cover the independent districts and towns of Cyprus. All SELAS products are the result of long research by a committed team of professional geographers and cartographers. The publications have internationally earned excellent reviews and critiques for the excellent cartographic work and the accuracy of information.

20 years ago, today's owner of Südtirol Bike Arena KG, Ignaz Zublasing, began to explore on his mountainbike the mountains and forests arround his hometown Eppan on the wine route. After exploring his home territory Montiggler forest, he wanted to explore new areas. So a little group of pioneers decided to create mountain bike guides, as it is needed by a real biker.
The map should guarantee for fun on the bike, therefore the name "Fun Bike" was easily found. Where is the angry farmer, where go the pensioners for a walk, where is a nature trail, points of conflicts and disagreeable surprises were debured, the routes were checked and evaluated by themselves, continous updates are understood..

swisstopo is the competence centre of the Swiss Confederation responsible for geographical reference data and all products derived from them.
swisstopo’s National Map series also enjoys international recognition.
The Federal Office of Topography (swisstopo), located in Wabern near Bern, is a modern production facility with nearly 270 employees.
Swisstopo creates and maintains the basic geodetic, topographic and geological data for the whole of Switzerland, publishes the national map series at a variety of scales and keeps them up to date.

Founded in 1988, Tappeiner AG is based on three columns. The first column was and is the advertising agency, the second one the aerial photography. In this domain Tappeiner is a leading company in South Tyrol. And last but not least the publishing range that includes a wide range of picture books, mountain literature, guides and South Tyrol maps.

Stephan Van Dam is an award-winning cartographer, graphic designer and information architect. The universal power of maps has been his guiding passion for the past 25 years and fuels his desire to tell stories and construct new realities through maps in all media. As publisher of his own series of maps and atlases Van Dam has directed and overseen the production of city maps and guides of over 85 cities around the world.