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This digital document is an article from Cartography and Geographic Information Science, published by Cartography and Geographic Information Society, Inc. on January 1, 2008. The length of the article is 9138 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: Maps are generally viewed as functional artefacts. They are considered accurate and useful conveyors of information, helping individuals find their way, understand environments, and inform decisions. However, maps also have a strongly pleasurable component. They generate and support narratives, they are tied to emotions, memories and adventures, and sometimes they make people laugh. In this paper, we engage with a very specific form of alternative cartography: humorous maps. We begin with an interdisciplinary review of the general theories and functions of humor to discuss the three major impediments of the use of humor in cartography: (1) the lack of recognition of the potential of humor; (2) the complexity of humor creation; and (3) the scientific orientation of modern cartography. We then turn to alternative forms of cartography to emphasize the function of humor in mapmaking through a chronological review of some examples of humorous maps. Through this review, we demonstrate that humorous maps caricature scientific cartography by drawing on the latter's persuasive power. In this sense, humorous maps can destabilize the scientific and technological bases of contemporary cartography. Freed from scientific constraints, humorous maps provide societal commentaries rather than geospatial facts. We conclude by arguing that humor--along with other forms of expression--can be combined with scientific maps to generate hybrid forms of cartography; these new representations could help us to represent anew the worlds we inhabit.

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Title: Humorous maps: explorations of an alternative cartography.
Author: Sebastien Caquard
Publication: Cartography and Geographic Information Science (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2008
Publisher: Cartography and Geographic Information Society, Inc.
Volume: 35Issue: 1Page: 51(14)

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Title: Literature review.(Bibliography)
Author: David Patton
Publication: Cartography and Geographic Information Science (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2008
Publisher: Cartography and Geographic Information Society, Inc.
Volume: 35Issue: 1Page: 65(4)

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This digital document is an article from Cartography and Geographic Information Science, published by Cartography and Geographic Information Society, Inc. on January 1, 2008. The length of the article is 8916 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: KEYWORDS: Place, narrative, cartographic language, graphic variables

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Title: Framing the days: place and narrative in cartography.
Author: Margaret Wickens Pearce
Publication: Cartography and Geographic Information Science (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2008
Publisher: Cartography and Geographic Information Society, Inc.
Volume: 35Issue: 1Page: 17(16)

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This digital document is an article from Cartography and Geographic Information Science, published by Cartography and Geographic Information Society, Inc. on April 1, 2009. The length of the article is 4508 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: This paper describes a new approach called kriskogram to visualizing migration flows. To create a kriskogram, geographical units are projected as a set of points on a straight line segment called a location line. The migration flow between two points on the location line is represented using a half-circle drawn from the origin to the destination in a clockwise direction. Translucent symbols and a classification scheme can be used to make a kriskogram more effective. We demonstrate this method using a set of interstate migration data of four time periods for the conterminous United States.

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Title: Visualizing migration flows using kriskograms.
Author: Ningchuan Xiao
Publication: Cartography and Geographic Information Science (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2009
Publisher: Cartography and Geographic Information Society, Inc.
Volume: 36Issue: 2Page: 183(9)

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This digital document is an article from Cartography and Geographic Information Science, published by Cartography and Geographic Information Society, Inc. on April 1, 2009. The length of the article is 6930 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: KEYWORDS: Dot density mapping, Mackay nomograph, probability theory

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Title: Dotting the dot map, revisited.
Author: A. Jon Kimerling
Publication: Cartography and Geographic Information Science (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2009
Publisher: Cartography and Geographic Information Society, Inc.
Volume: 36Issue: 2Page: 165(18)

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From the author: Our research addresses the question of how to design interfaces for spatial analysis such that they support cognitive processes. In this paper we specifically target the question of map symbol design for the analysis of multivariate data, which is a common problem in cartography and related fields. We focus on star plots and the largely unaddressed question of how to assign variables to rays in a star plot and which consequences specific shapes have--as the result of data characteristics and the assignment of variables to rays--on interpretation and classification. We conducted an experiment with two conditions that were designed to shed light on the question: Does the shape of a star plot influence the interpretation (meaning) of the data it represents in a classification task? While previous research on multivariate point symbols has addressed this question for Chernoff faces, for example, few connections have been made to the shape of a star plot and its potential influence on meaning. We found that certain salient shape characteristics induced by variations along the horizontal and vertical axis increase the classification speed. However, we also found that salient shapes, such as has one spike, introduce a perceptual similarity that overrides the assumed similarities in the meaning of the represented data.

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Title: Star plots: how shape characteristics influence classification tasks.
Author: Alexander Klippel
Publication: Cartography and Geographic Information Science (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2009
Publisher: Cartography and Geographic Information Society, Inc.
Volume: 36Issue: 2Page: 149(15)

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This digital document is an article from Science and Its Times, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 1511 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.The histories of science, technology, and mathematics merge with the study of humanities and social science in this interdisciplinary reference work. Essays on people, theories, discoveries, and concepts are combined with overviews, bibliographies of primary documents, and chronological elements to offer students a fascinating way to understand the impact of science on the course of human history and how science affects everyday life. Entries represent people and developments throughout the world, from about 2000 B.C. through the end of the twentieth century. ... Read more

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This book covers various aspects of 3D geoinformation regarding data acquisition, modeling, analysis, management, visualization and technology. In recent years, a wide range of 3D models have been developed including voxels, tetrahedral networks (TEN), constructive solid geometry (CSG) and boundary representation (B-rep), and new data collection techniques have emerged, such as mobile mapping and laser scanning. In light of these developments, this book brings together some of the latest achievements in the realm of 3D geoinformation. It comprises a selection of high-quality papers that were presented at the 4^th International Workshop on 3D geoinformation. The book is aimed at a broad range of academics and practitioners interested in the 3D component of geographical information science including GIscientists, land surveyors, computer engineers, photogrammetrists, urban planners, archaeologists and cartographers.

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This special issue of Ethnohistory focuses on the ways in which the disciplines and methods of geography, demography and cartography are relevant and revealing for ethnohistorical analyses. Articles discuss culturally distinct views of landscapes and underline the importance of such concepts for the integrated study of the past. This issue also contains a radical and devastating re-evaluation of one of the fundamental ethnohistorical texts of the Americas—Bishop Landa's Relación de Las Cosas de Yucátan— which will change the landscape of ethnohistorical scholarship forever as this revered source is unmasked as a secondary compilation. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Cartography and Geographic Information Science, published by Thomson Gale on October 1, 2005. The length of the article is 6320 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Lidar elevation data for surface hydrologic modeling: resolution and representation issues.
Author: Christopher P. Barber
Publication: Cartography and Geographic Information Science (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 32Issue: 4Page: 401(10)

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Cartography and geographic information (GI) are remarkably appropriate for the requirements of early warning (EW) and crisis management (CM). The use of geospatial technology has  increased tremendously in the last years. ICT has changed from just using maps created in advance, to new approaches, allowing individuals (decision-makers) to use cartography interactively, on the basis of individual user's requirements. The new generation of cartographic visualizations based on standardisation, formal modelling, use of sensors, semantics and ontology, allows for the better adaptation of information to the needs of the users. In order to design a new framework in pre-disaster and disaster management safety/security/privacy aspects of institutions and citizens need to be considered. All this can only be achieved by demonstrating new research achievements, sharing best practices (e.g. in the health area) and working towards the wider acceptance of geospatial technology in society, with the help of education and media.

This book will outline research frontiers and applications of cartography and GI in EW and CM and document their roles and potentials in wider processes going on in information/knowledge-based societies.

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not as well edited as I'd like
I was disappointed with this book. Certainly it contains many nice maps, but even the potential inherent in its large square size has been squandered.

The very first map inside the book [of the Soviet Union] is neither explained well nor presented in a comprehensible way. It's not especially handsome. Even the authors express surprise that they included it, and their purported explanation for including it [Stalin killed kulaks] is kinda stupefying.

Then there is the lousy proofreading. I just have to scratch my head in amazement when the very second word of text (after the introduction) is misspelled: "As Pofessor Black has pointed out..." Ouch!

I would recommend instead The Image of the World: 20 Centuries of World Maps. That Pomegranite book is everything this is not -- focussed, handsomely presented and well-edited. True, Whitfield deals only with a subset of cartography (the Map of the World) but an important and wide-ranging subset indeed. In any event, this book overreaches in pompously presenting itself as an overview of the "Science, Art and Politics of Cartography Throughout History" --presumably, history recorded and not!

Designed for the coffee table, "100 Maps" won't fit on your shelf, and you won't want it there in any event. I'm giving mine away. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Cartography and Geographic Information Science, published by American Congress on Surveying & Mapping on October 1, 2001. The length of the article is 6830 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Developing web-based mapping applications through distributed object technology.
Author: Xuan Zhu
Publication: Cartography and Geographic Information Science (Refereed)
Date: October 1, 2001
Publisher: American Congress on Surveying & Mapping
Volume: 28Issue: 4Page: 249(10)

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