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An instant classic when first published in 1991, How to Lie with Maps revealed how the choices mapmakers make--consciously or unconsciously--mean that every map inevitably presents only one of many possible stories about the places it depicts. The principles Mark Monmonier outlined back then remain true today, despite significant technological changes in the making and use of maps. The introduction and spread of digital maps and mapping software, however, have added new wrinkles to the ever-evolving landscape of modern mapmaking. Fully updated for the digital age, this new edition of How to Lie with Maps examines the myriad ways that technology offers new opportunities for cartographic mischief, deception, and propaganda. While retaining the same brevity, range, and humor as its predecessors, this third edition includes significant updates throughout as well as new chapters on image maps, prohibitive cartography, and online maps. It also includes an expanded section of color images and an updated list of sources for further reading.
For more than thirty years, the History of Cartography Project has charted the course for scholarship on cartography, bringing together research from a variety of disciplines on the creation, dissemination, and use of maps. Volume 6, Cartography in the Twentieth Century, continues this tradition with a groundbreaking survey of the century just ended and a new full-color, encyclopedic format. The twentieth century is a pivotal period in map history. The transition from paper to digital formats led to previously unimaginable dynamic and interactive maps. Geographic information systems radically altered cartographic institutions and reduced the skill required to create maps. Satellite positioning and mobile communications revolutionized wayfinding. Mapping evolved as an important tool for coping with complexity, organizing knowledge, and influencing public opinion in all parts of the globe and at all levels of society. Volume 6 covers these changes comprehensively, while thoroughly demonstrating the far-reaching effects of maps on science, technology, and society - and vice versa. The lavishly produced volume includes more than five hundred articles accompanied by more than a thousand images, most in full color. Hundreds of expert contributors provide both original research, often based on their own participation in the developments they describe, and interpretations of larger trends in cartography. Designed for use by both scholars and the general public, this definitive volume is a reference work of first resort for all who study and love maps.
This book explores the US patent system, which helped practical minded innovators establish intellectual property rights and fulfill the need for achievement that motivates inventors and scholars alike. In this sense, the patent system was a parallel literature: a vetting institution similar to the conventional academic-scientific-technical journal insofar as the patent examiner was both editor and peer reviewer, while the patent attorney was a co-author or ghost writer. In probing evolving notions of novelty, non-obviousness, and cumulative innovation, Mark Monmonier examines rural address guides, folding schemes, world map projections, diverse improvements of the terrestrial globe, mechanical route-following machines that anticipated the GPS navigator, and the early electrical you-are-here mall map, which opened the way for digital cartography and provided fodder for patent trolls, who treat the patent largely as a license to litigate.
The text explains how maps can tell us a lot about where we can anticipate certain hazards, but also how maps can be dangerously misleading. It considers that although it is important to predict and prepare for catastrophic natural hazards, more subtle and persistent phenomena such as pollution and crime also pose serious dangers that we have to cope with on a daily basis. Hazard-zone maps, the text explains, highlight these more insidious hazards and raise awareness about them among planners, local officials and the public. With the help of many maps illustrating examples from all corners of the United States, the text demonstrates how hazard mapping reflects not just scientific understanding of hazards but also perceptions of risk and how risk can be reduced.
Some maps help us find our way; others restrict where we go and
what we do. These maps control behavior, regulating activities from
flying to fishing, prohibiting students from one part of town from
being schooled on the other, and banishing certain individuals and
industries to the periphery. This restrictive cartography has
boomed in recent decades as governments seek regulate activities as
diverse as hiking, building a residence, opening a store, locating
a chemical plant, or painting your house anything but regulation
colors. It is this aspect of mapping--its power to prohibit--that
celebrated geographer Mark Monmonier tackles in "No Dig, No Fly, No
Go."
Some maps help us find our way; others restrict where we go and
what we do. These maps control behavior, regulating activities from
flying to fishing, prohibiting students from one part of town from
being schooled on the other, and banishing certain individuals and
industries to the periphery. This restrictive cartography has
boomed in recent decades as governments seek regulate activities as
diverse as hiking, building a residence, opening a store, locating
a chemical plant, or painting your house anything but regulation
colors. It is this aspect of mapping--its power to prohibit--that
celebrated geographer Mark Monmonier tackles in "No Dig, No Fly, No
Go."
Every night across the country, viewers tune in to their evening news to glimpse the next day's weather. They are treated to graphic images of invading air masses, colliding fronts, and growing tropical storms. This book is the story of this tool, the weather map, which in its many forms has made the atmosphere visible, understandable, and at least moderately predictable. No other maps are so spontaneously timely, so widely and frequently consulted, and so central to the daily activities of so many. The singular history of the weather map developed around the twin poles of weather's many facets and the public's varied needs. Mark Monmonier traces the contentious debates among scientists eager to unravel the enigma of storms and global change, explains the strategies for mapping the upper atmosphere and forecasting disaster, and exposes the efforts to detect and control air pollution. He introduces Karl Theodor, a Bavarian politician who devised one of the first weather-tracking networks in the late-18th century, and Heinrich Wilhelm Brandes, who drew the first maps of European weather in 1819 - for the year of 1783. Monmonier also explores the interaction between technology - from the telegraph to the Internet - and weather forecasting.
Writers know only too well how long it can take--and how awkward it
can be--to describe spatial relationships with words alone. And
while a map might not always be worth a thousand words, a good one
can help writers communicate an argument or explanation clearly,
succinctly, and effectively.
Maps, as we know, help us find our way around. But they're also
powerful tools for someone hoping to find "you," Widely available
in electronic and paper formats, maps offer revealing insights into
our movements and activities, even our likes and dislikes. In
"Spying with Maps," the "mapmatician" Mark Monmonier looks at the
increased use of geographic data, satellite imagery, and location
tracking across a wide range of fields such as military
intelligence, law enforcement, market research, and traffic
engineering. Could these diverse forms of geographic monitoring, he
asks, lead to grave consequences for society? To assess this very
real threat, he explains how geospatial technology works, what it
can reveal, who uses it, and to what effect.
Blending meteorological history with the history of scientific cartography, Monmonier charts the phenomenon of lake-effect snow and explores the societal impacts of extreme weather. Along the way, he introduces readers to natural philosophers who gradually identified this distinctive weather pattern, to tales of communities adapting to notoriously disruptive storms, and to some of the snowiest regions of the country. Characterized by intense snowfalls lasting from a couple of minutes to several days, lake-effect snow is deposited by narrow bands of clouds formed when cold, dry arctic air passes over a large, relatively warm inland lake. With perhaps only half the water content of regular snow, lake snow is typically light, fluffy, and relatively easy to shovel. Intriguing stories of lake effect’s quirky behavior and diverse impacts include widespread ignorance of the phenomenon in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Since then a network of systematic observers have collected several decades of data worth mapping, and reliable shortterm predictions based on satellites, Doppler radar, and computer models are now available. Moving effortlessly from atmospheric science to anecdotes, Monmonier offers a richly detailed account of a type of weather that has long been misunderstood. Residents of lake-effect regions, history buffs, and weather junkies alike will relish this entertaining and informative book.
Brassiere Hills, Alaska. Mollys Nipple, Utah. Outhouse Draw,
Nevada. In the early twentieth century, it was common for towns and
geographical features to have salacious, bawdy, and even derogatory
names. In the age before political correctness, mapmakers readily
accepted any local preference for place names, prizing accurate
representation over standards of decorum. But later, when sanctions
prohibited local use of racially, ethnically, and scatalogically
offensive toponyms, names like Jap Valley, California, were erased
from the national and cultural map forever."
No place is perfectly safe, but some places are more dangerous than
others. Whether we live on a floodplain or in "Tornado Alley," near
a nuclear facility or in a neighborhood poorly lit at night, we all
co-exist uneasily with natural and man-made hazards. As Mark
Monmonier shows in this entertaining and immensely informative
book, maps can tell us a lot about where we can anticipate certain
hazards, but they can also be dangerously misleading.
Writers know only too well how long it can take--and how awkward it can be--to describe spatial relationships with words alone. And while a map might not always be worth a thousand words, a good one can help writers communicate an argument or explanation clearly, succinctly, and effectively. In his acclaimed How to Lie with Maps, Mark Monmonier showed how maps can distort facts. In Mapping it Out: Expository Cartography for the Humanities and Social Sciences, he shows authors and scholars how they can use expository cartography--the visual, two-dimensional organization of information--to heighten the impact of their books and articles. This concise, practical book is an introduction to the fundamental principles of graphic logic and design, from the basics of scale to the complex mapping of movement or change. Monmonier helps writers and researchers decide when maps are most useful and what formats work best in a wide range of subject areas, from literary criticism to sociology. He demonstrates, for example, various techniques for representing changes and patterns; different typefaces and how they can either clarify or confuse information; and the effectiveness of less traditional map forms, such as visibility base maps, frame-rectangle symbols, and complementary scatterplot designs for conveying complex spatial relationships. There is also a wealth of practical information on map compilation, cartobibliographies, copyright and permissions, facsimile reproduction, and the evaluation of source materials. Appendixes discuss the benefits and limitations of electronic graphics and pen-and-ink drafting, and how to work with a cartographic illustrator. Clearly written, and filled with real-world examples, Mapping it Out demystifies mapmaking for anyone writing in the humanities and social sciences. A useful guide to a subject most people probably take too much for granted. It shows how map makers translate abstract data into eye-catching cartograms, as they are called. It combats cartographic illiteracy. It fights cartophobia. It may even teach you to find your way.--Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times
Maps, as we know, help us find our way around. But they're also
powerful tools for someone hoping to find "you," Widely available
in electronic and paper formats, maps offer revealing insights into
our movements and activities, even our likes and dislikes. In
"Spying with Maps," the "mapmatician" Mark Monmonier looks at the
increased use of geographic data, satellite imagery, and location
tracking across a wide range of fields such as military
intelligence, law enforcement, market research, and traffic
engineering. Could these diverse forms of geographic monitoring, he
asks, lead to grave consequences for society? To assess this very
real threat, he explains how geospatial technology works, what it
can reveal, who uses it, and to what effect.
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