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Design Guide for Environmental Maps
No full textThis Design Guide, produced through the Division of Science and Research's research program, is aimed at helping GIS (and other) map creators communicate better, whether to their managers, clients, legislators or citizens. It provides diverse perspectives on map-making and using, including: Presenting Environmental Information with Maps, Basic Cartographic Concepts, Providing Maps for Audiences, Reviewing Environmental Maps, and a Case Study in Integrating Map Design and Communication.Please be advised that any use of this material must properly cite the source, e.g. authors: Monmonier, Mark and Johnson, Branden B.; agency: Division of Science and Research, NJDEP, etc
Data for: 'A Directory of Cartographic Inventors' and 'Patents and Cartographic Inventions'
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Supplementary data relating to the biographies and patents illustrated from the two books: Patents and Cartographic Inventions: A New Perspective for Map History and A Directory of Cartographic Inventors written by Mark Monmonier.
These two titles focus on the cartographic inventors and the devices and technologies they created to making maps easier to use. The Patents book focuses on the patent process between the Patent Office clerks and the inventor exploring the correspondence between them during the description and review process before issuing a patent number. It also explores the patent as a publishing process of both property rights and as a scholarly publication. The Directory has biographical sketches of the inventors organized by genres of invention type
GPS and property surveying
Full text linkIn 2010 the Global Positioning System (GPS) developed by the United States military was the best known Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). Others included Russia’s GLONASS, China’s COMPASS and Europe’s GALILEO systems. Although military satellite navigation systems can be traced back to the 1960s, their civilian uses emerged in the 1980s, initially limited to navigation positioning, not property surveying. Property surveying methods have varied both between and within nations. However, GPS surveying with some supporting legislation, had, by the early years of the 21st century, sufficiently developed to meet the needs of the property sector. This chapter looks at this development, and its implications with respect to cadastral surveying
Ethics and Map Design: Six Strategies for Confronting the Traditional One-Map Solution
No full textTraditional, positivist approaches to map design usually yield a single map. These one-map solutions foster a highly selective, authored view reflecting consciously manipulative or ill-conceived design decisions about many factors, such as map scale, geographic scope, feature content, map title, classification of data, and the crispness or fuzziness of symbols representing uncertain features. As a result, the rightfully skeptical map viewer ought to question whether (a) an ulterior motive led to a biased view of reality favoring the author's philosophical or political biases or economic goals, or (b) a lazy map author failed to explore designs offering a more coherent or complete picture of reality. Technology has aggravated the problem of one-map solutions by placing powerful mapping software at the disposal of amateur cartographers who can generate convincing-looking graphics with little or no understanding of their data or the principles of mapping. And technology also allows devious map makers to perfect designs that support their points. But technology can also foster greater openness and more complete understanding of maps and their meaning, and thereby provide a more ethical approach to cartographic analysis and communication. After discussing the problem of single cartographic views, I present six strategies for a more open and overtly critical cartography in which one-map solutions are both rare and suspect
Mercatorin maailma : kirja-arvostelu
No full textRhumb lines and map wars: a social history of the Mercator projection, Monmonier, Mark, Chicago (2004
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