Subject: ‘Cartography’
April 14, 2011Seven Cartography Book PicksPublicationsBrain Pickings has listed seven cartography books considered must-reads that explore the art and science of cartography. Selections include books about map as art, personal geographies, hand drawn maps, the use of cartography in social activism, maps as oddities, the use of cartography in depicting time, and imaginative maps. To see which volumes made the ... read more March 21, 2011GIS BooksPublicationsLooking to build your GIS reference library? Listed here are essential books about geographic information systems and cartography. Reference Books A to Z GIS Edited by Tasha Wade and Shelly Sommer – ESRI Press – 2006 Terminology book from Esri Press. The book contains 243 pages of quick definitions and illustrations. The book also contains ... read more March 8, 2011 Enhancing Shorelines with Vector-Based Coastal VignettesCartographyThe demarkation between land and a body of water can be enhanced cartographically through the use of coastal vignettes. From a cartographic perspective, a coastal vignette is a way of displaying water so that areas closest to the shoreline are displayed with a white color. The water is then color ramped so that the color ... read more March 7, 2011 California as an IslandMapsFor a long time, starting in the 1500s, Europeans held the belief that California was an island. This idea continued well into the 17th and 18th centuries, with maps of the region showing California separated from the mainland by a strait. Francisco de Ulloa, a Spanish explorer, reporting on his expeditions along the Baja California ... read more February 11, 2011Conservation Mapping CompetitionGIS NewsEsri and the Society for Conservation GIS (SCGIS) have launched the International Conservation Mapping Competition. Cash prizes include the $5,000 Grand Prize and $1,000 in category prizes covering the following: Grand Prize: Best exemplification of conservation mapping Best Traditional Cartography: Best design and art in a static map (hard copy or online) Best Interactive Web ... read more June 26, 2010 The Look of MapsCartographyESRI announced the publication of a another book in its cartographic classic series. The Look of Maps: An Examination of Cartographic Design is by Arthur H. Robinson and was originally published in 1952. According to the press release, the book was based on Robinson’s doctoral research “which investigated the relationship between science and art in ... read more November 10, 2009 Freakonomics Interviews Frank Jacobs on the Influence of MapsPublicationsThe Feakonomics blog from the New York Times posts an Interview with Frank Jacobs, of the popular Strange Maps blog and the upcoming book Strange Maps: An Atlas of Cartographic Curiosities. Annika Mengisen interviews Jacobs on what he believes the most influential maps in history have been, how online mapping has affected cartography, and the ... read more First Thematic MapsCartographyZachary Forest Johnson provides an overview on Indiemaps.com on the first published instances of each of the six most commonly used thematic mapping techniques: choropleth, proportional symbol, dot density, flow, isarithmic, and cartogram. Each technique’s first mapping instance is described along with a scanned sample of the map. In conclusion, Johnson writes: Four of the ... read more November 4, 2009Cartography 2.0CartographyCartography 2.0 is a new site with the purpose of providing up-to-date information about web mapping technologies. The site authors seeks to provide an extensive knowledge base that will help answer the question, “What’s the important stuff I need to know about making great on-demand/interactive maps?” The site is edited by Dr. Mark Harrower, a ... read more October 26, 2009 New Cartographic Design for Google MapsWeb MappingGoogle Maps’ LatLong Blog explains the new visual changes to be found on Google Maps. As the first major overhaul of Google’s cartographic design since the launch of Google Maps, changes have been made to road widths, fonts and color. The cartographic changes were made for both the ‘Map’ and ‘Hybrid’ mapping options with the ... read more |
