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In the two centuries before Columbus, mapmaking was transformed.
The World Map, 1300--1492 investigates this important, transitional
period of mapmaking. Beginning with a 1436 atlas of ten maps
produced by Venetian Andrea Bianco, Evelyn Edson uses maps of the
fourteenth and fifteenth centuries to examine how the discoveries
of missionaries and merchants affected the content and
configuration of world maps.
She finds that both the makers and users of maps struggled with
changes brought about by technological innovation -- the compass,
quadrant, and astrolabe -- rediscovery of classical mapmaking
approaches, and increased travel. To reconcile the tensions between
the conservative and progressive worldviews, mapmakers used a
careful blend of the old and the new to depict a world that was
changing -- and growing -- before their eyes.
This engaging and informative study reveals how the ingenuity,
creativity, and adaptability of these craftsmen helped pave the way
for an age of discovery.
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2011 "Booklist" Editor's Choice, reference category
The Great Plains, stretching northward from Texas into Canada,
is a region that has been understudied and overlooked. The" Atlas
of the Great Plains," however, brings a new focus to North
America's midcontinent. With more than three hundred original
full-color maps, accompanied by extended explanatory text, this
collection chronicles the history of the Great Plains, including
political and social developments. Far more than simply the
geography of the region, this atlas explores a myriad of subjects
from Native Americans to settlement patterns, agricultural ventures
to voting records, and medical services to crime rates. These
detailed and beautifully designed maps convey the significance of
the region, capturing the essence of its land and life. The only
current and comprehensive atlas of the Great Plains region, it is
also the first atlas to include both the United States and Canada,
showing the region's full length and breadth.
The fast exchange of information and knowledge are the essential
conditions for successful and effective research and practical
applications in cartography. For successful research development,
it is necessary to follow trends not only in this domain, but also
try to adapt new trends and technologies from other areas. Trends
in cartography are also quite often topics of many conferences
which have the main aim to link research, education and application
experts in cartography and GIS&T into one large platform. Such
the right place for exchange and sharing of knowledge and skills
was also the CARTOCON2014 conference, which took place in Olomouc,
Czech Republic, in February 2014 and this book is a compilation of
the best and most interesting contributions. The book content
consists of four parts. The first part New approaches in map and
atlas making collects studies about innovative ways in map
production and atlases compilation. Following part of the book
Progress in web cartography brings examples and tools for web map
presentation. The third part Advanced methods in map use includes
achievement of eye-tracking research and users' issues. The final
part Cartography in practice and research is a clear evidence that
cartography and maps played the significant role in many
geosciences and in many branches of the society. Each individual
paper is original and has its place in cartography.
The nineteenth century was an era of breathtakingly ambitious
geographic expeditions across the Americas. The seminal
Chorographic Commission of Colombia, which began in 1850 and lasted
about a decade, was one of Latin America's most extensive. The
commission's mandate was to define and map the young republic and
its resources with an eye toward modernization. In this history of
the commission, Nancy Appelbaum focuses on the geographers'
fieldwork practices and visual production as the men traversed the
mountains, savannahs, and forests of more than thirty provinces in
order to delineate the country's territorial and racial
composition. Their assumptions and methods, Appelbaum argues,
contributed to a long-lasting national imaginary. What jumps out of
the commission's array of reports, maps, sketches, and paintings is
a portentous tension between the marked differences that appeared
before the eyes of the geographers in the field and the visions of
sameness to which they aspired. The commissioners and their patrons
believed that a prosperous republic required a unified and racially
homogeneous population, but the commission's maps and images
paradoxically emphasized diversity and helped create a ""country of
regions."" By privileging the whiter inhabitants of the cool Andean
highlands over those of the boiling tropical lowlands, the
commission left a lasting but problematic legacy for today's
Colombians.
Over 35 recipes to design and implement uniquely styled maps using
the Mapbox platform About This Book * Design and develop
beautifully styled maps using TileMill, MapBox Studio, and CartoCSS
* Get to grips with the mapbox.js and Leaflet to create visually
stunning web and mobile applications * An easy-to-follow, quick
reference guide to integrate powerful APIs and services like
Foursquare, Fusion Tables, Geoserver, and CartoDB to populate your
maps Who This Book Is For If you are a web developer seeking for
GIS expertise on how to create, style, and publish interactive and
unique styled maps, then this book is for you. Basic knowledge of
programming and javascripts is assumed. What You Will Learn * Get
accustomed to the MapBox Editor to visually style your maps * Learn
everything about CartoCSS, and how it will help you fine tune your
styled maps * Use MapBox Studio and Tilemill to generate your own
tiles and vector maps * Publish your maps using a variety of
technologies like node.js, PHP, and Geoserver * Integrate with
third party APIs and services to populate your maps with public or
private data * Create many different map visualization styles like
choropleth and heat maps, add interactivity, and even learn how to
animate data over time * Work with many different data formats and
external services to create robust maps * Learn to use MapBox GL to
create a mobile application In Detail Maps are an essential element
in today's location aware applications. Right from displaying earth
surface information to creating thematic maps displaying plethora
of information, most of the developers lack the necessary knowledge
to create customizable maps with combination of various tools and
libraries. The MapBox platform is one such platform which offers
all the tools and API required to create and publish a totally
customizable map. Starting with building your first map with the
online MapBox Editor, we will take you all the way to building
advanced web and mobile applications with totally customizable map
styles. Through the course of chapters we'll learn CartoCSS styling
language and understand the various components of MapBox platform
and their corresponding JavaScript API. In the initial few chapters
we will dive deeper into the TileMill and MapBox Studio components
of MapBox and use them to generate custom styled map tiles and
vector maps. Furthermore, we will publish these custom maps using
PHP, node.js and third party tools like Geoserver. We'll also learn
to create different visualizations and map styles like a choropleth
map, a heat map and add user interactivity using a UFTGrid. Moving
on, we dive into advanced concepts and focus on integration with
third party services like Foursquare, Google FusionTables, CartoDB,
and Torque to help you populate and even animate your maps. In the
final chapter we'll learn to use the Mapbox SDK to create and
publish interactive maps for the iOS platform. By the end of this
book, you will learn about MapBox GL and how to create a fully
functional, location-aware mobile app, using the maps styles
created in the recipes. Style and approach An easy-to-use recipe
driven book that will not just serve code samples, but also
explains all the theory and concepts required to fully understand
each recipe.
This book is the first to document in depth the history of lunar
and planetary cartography in Russia. The first map of the far side
of the Moon was made with the participation of Lomonosov Moscow
University (Sternberg Astronomical Institute, MSU) in 1960. The
developed mapping technologies were then used in preparing the
"Complete Map of the Moon" in 1967 as well as other maps and
globes. Over the years, various maps of Mars have emerged from the
special course "Mapping of extraterrestrial objects" in the MSU
Geography Department, including the hypsometric map of Mars at a
scale of 1:26,000,000, compiled by J.A. Ilyukhina and published in
2004 in an edition of 5,000 copies. A more detailed version of this
map has since been produced with a new hypsometric scale. In
addition, maps of the northern and southern hemispheres of Mars
have been compiled for the hypsometric globe of Mars. Relief maps
of Venus were made in 2008, 2010, and 2011, and hypsometric maps of
Phobos and Deimos at a scale of 1:60,000 were published in 2011.
History of Lunar and Planetary Cartography in Russia provides
detailed information on the compilation of this diverse range of
maps and will be of interest to all lunar and planetary
cartographers.
Considered a wonder of the ancient world, the Newark Earthworks?the
gigantic geometrical mounds of earth built nearly two thousand
years ago in the Ohio valley--have been a focal point for
archaeologists and surveyors, researchers and scholars for almost
two centuries. In their prime one of the premier pilgrimage
destinations in North America, these monuments are believed to have
been ceremonial centers used by ancestors of Native Americans,
called the ""Hopewell culture,"" as social gathering places,
religious shrines, pilgrimage sites, and astronomical
observatories. Yet much of this territory has been destroyed by the
city of Newark, and the site currently ""hosts"" a private golf
course, making it largely inaccessible to the public. The first
book-length volume devoted to the site, The Newark Earthworks
reveals the magnitude and the geometric precision of what remains
of the earthworks and the site's undeniable importance to our
history. Including contributions from archaeologists, historians,
cultural geographers, and cartographers, as well as scholars in
religious studies, legal studies, indigenous studies, and
preservation studies, the book follows an interdisciplinary
approach to shine light on the Newark Earthworks and argues
compellingly for its designation as a World Heritage Site.
The relationship of texts and maps, and the mappability of
literature, examined from Homer to Houellebecq. Literary authors
have frequently called on elements of cartography to ground
fictional space, to visualize sites, and to help readers get their
bearings in the imaginative world of the text. Today, the
convergence of digital mapping and globalization has spurred a
cartographic turn in literature. This book gathers leading scholars
to consider the relationship of literature and cartography.
Generously illustrated with full-color maps and visualizations, it
offers the first systematic overview of an emerging approach to the
study of literature. The literary map is not merely an illustrative
guide but represents a set of relations and tensions that raise
questions about representation, fiction, and space. Is literature
even mappable? In exploring the cartographic components of
literature, the contributors have not only brought literary theory
to bear on the map but have also enriched the vocabulary and
perspectives of literary studies with cartographic terms. After
establishing the theoretical and methodological terrain, they trace
important developments in the history of literary cartography,
considering topics that include Homer and Joyce, Goethe and the
representation of nature, and African cartographies. Finally, they
consider cartographic genres that reveal the broader connections
between texts and maps, discussing literary map genres in American
literature and the coexistence of image and text in early maps.
When cartographic aspirations outstripped factual knowledge,
mapmakers turned to textual fictions. Contributors Jean-Marc Besse,
Bruno Bosteels, Patrick M. Bray, Martin Bruckner, Tom Conley, Joerg
Dunne, Anders Engberg-Pedersen, John K. Noyes, Ricardo Padron,
Barbara Piatti, Simone Pinet, Clara Rowland, Oliver Simons, Robert
Stockhammer, Dominic Thomas, Burkhardt Wolf
Maps are universal forms of communication, easily understood and
appreciated regardless of culture or language. This truly
magisterial book introduces readers to the widest range of maps
ever considered in one volume: maps from different time periods and
a variety of cultures; maps made for divergent purposes and
depicting a range of environments; and maps that embody the famous,
the important, the beautiful, the groundbreaking, and the amusing.
Built around the functions of maps - the kinds of things maps do
and have done - maps confirms the vital role of maps throughout
history in commerce, art, literature, and national identity. The
book begins by examining the use of maps for wayfinding, revealing
that even maps as common and widely used as these products of
historical circumstances and cultural differences. The second
chapter considers maps whose makers employed the smallest of scales
to envision the broadest of human stages - the world, the heavens,
even the act of creation itself. The next chapter looks at maps
that are, literally, at the opposite end of the scale from
cosmological and world maps - maps that represent specific parts of
the world and provide a close-up view of areas in which their
makers lived, worked, and moved. Having shown how maps help us get
around and make sense of our greater and lesser worlds, "Maps" then
turns to the ways in which certain maps can be linked to particular
events in history, exploring how they have helped Americans, for
instance, to understand their past, cope with current events, and
plan their national future. The fifth chapter considers maps that
represent data from scientific instruments, population censuses,
and historical records. These maps illustrate, for example, how
diseases spread, what the ocean floor looks like, and how the
weather is tracked and predicted. Next comes a turn to the
imaginary, featuring maps that depict entire fictional worlds, from
Hell to Utopia and from Middle Earth to the fantasy game World of
Warcraft. The final chapter traces the origins of map consumption
throughout history and ponders the impact of cartography on modern
society. A companion volume to the most ambitious exhibition on the
history of maps ever mounted in North America, "Maps" will
challenge readers to stretch conventional thought about what
constitutes a map and how many different ways we can understand
graphically the environment in which we live. Collectors,
historians, mapmakers and users, and anyone who has ever "gotten
lost" in the lines and symbols of a map will find much to love and
learn from in this book.
This volume gathers 19 papers first presented at the 5th
International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of
Cartography, which took place at the University of Ghent, Belgium
on 2-5 December 2014. The overall conference theme was 'Cartography
in Times of War and Peace', but preference was given to papers
dealing with the military cartography of the First World War
(1914-1918). The papers are classified by period and regional
sub-theme, i.e. Military Cartography from the 18th to the 20th
century; WW I Cartography in Belgium, Central Europe, etc.
Ptolemy's "Geography" is the only book on cartography to have
survived from the classical period and one of the most influential
scientific works of all time. Written in the second century AD, for
more than fifteen centuries it was the most detailed topography of
Europe and Asia available and the best reference on how to gather
data and draw maps. Ptolemy championed the use of astronomical
observation and applied mathematics in determining geographical
locations. But more importantly, he introduced the practice of
writing down coordinates of latitude and longitude for every
feature drawn on a world map, so that someone else possessing only
the text of the "Geography" could reproduce Ptolemy's map at any
time, in whole or in part, at any scale.
Here Berggren and Jones render an exemplary translation of the
"Geography" and provide a thorough introduction, which treats the
historical and technical background of Ptolemy's work, the contents
of the "Geography, " and the later history of the work. Also
included here are unique color reproductions of maps from
manuscripts and early printed editions of the text, representative
of the beautiful and practical cartographic artistry that flowed
from Ptolemy's work. Historians of science, classicists, and anyone
who enjoys beautiful maps or map making will find this work an
indispensable addition to their library.
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