Maps as Mediated Seeing - Fundamentals of Cartography (Paperback, Revised edition)

Among the things offered by this book are:
*The idea of mediated seeing - systems that intervene between the seer and the thing seen, allowing views not otherwise available.
*Explanation of vertical orthogonal projection, by which the map-viewer is vertically above all points on the represented ground simultaneously.
*Definition of a map: a map is a projectionally modified physical model of the surface-of-zero-elevation of a planet, with added apparitional modeling.
*Explanation of apparitional modeling.
*Differentiation of maps into topographical, and twelve kinds of thematic.
*Explanation of visual metaphor as imagery by which things unseeable, e.g. temperature, are made seeable.
*Application of the idea of homologue and analogue in explanation of various kinds of map imagery.
*Definition of the subject of topographical maps as stopped-time subaerial landscape.
*Definition of landscape.
*A classification of landscape objects.
*Definition of the subjects of thematic maps as localized processes of the universe.
*Division of the signage of maps into signatures, three kinds of symbols, and typography.
*Definition of "symbol" and "signature."
*Methods of providing identity to features on maps: by mimesis, and several kinds of adjectival modifying.
*Analysis of the visual structure of maps into 'layered' components.
*Explanation of the optional transparency of cartographical surfaces.
*Identification of the visual structure of maps with that of trompe-l'oeil art in which represented objects 'protrude' into the viewer's space.
*Time and synchronicity on maps.
* Definition and explanation of generalization.
*Asummary of relief representation.
*The functions of color on maps: adjectival and graphic.
*A description of the three-dimensional variations of holistic color, and a chart of systematic color gradations.
*The idea of continuums, one- two- and three-dimensional, as applied to discussion of graphics and description of space.
*New terminology and tighter definition of old.

General

Imprint:	Trafford Publishing
Country of origin:	Canada
Release date:	2006
First published:	2006
Authors:	Gerald Fremlin
As told to:	Arthur H. Robinson
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	292
Edition:	Revised edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-4120-6682-2
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > Geography > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4120-6682-4
Barcode:	9781412066822

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