Mapping Ways of Representing the World,9780582289727

Mapping Ways of Representing the World

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780582289727
ISBN10: 0582289726
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1997-06-12
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

Illustrates how maps tell us as much about the people and the powers which create them, as about the places they show. Presents historical and contemporary evidence of how the human urge to describe, understand and control the world is presented through the medium of mapping, together with the individual and environmental constraints of the creator of the map.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii
Acknowledgements viii
Introduction
1(5)
Geography and mapping
1(2)
Maps as the subject of this book
3(1)
Further reading
4(2)
The history of cartography
6(19)
An introduction to early maps
6(1)
The human mind and the shape of the earth: reconciling interpretation and reality
7(1)
The relationship of mapping to other human activities
8(13)
The Islamic tradition in map-making
21(2)
Summary
23(1)
Further reading
24(1)
The shape and content of maps
25(19)
Maps and their scale
25(1)
The graticule
25(3)
Map projections
28(7)
Larger-scale mapping
35(3)
Generalization
38(4)
Summary
42(1)
Further reading
42(2)
Navigation, maps and accuracy
44(21)
Introduction
44(1)
Positioning
44(1)
Navigation
45(8)
Accuracy
53(10)
Summary
63(1)
Further reading
64(1)
Representing others
65(17)
Introduction
65(1)
Who are maps made for?
66(5)
Map compilation
71(4)
Interpreting the interpreters
75(2)
An infinity of images
77(1)
Summary
78(3)
Further reading
81(1)
Mapping territory
82(20)
Introduction
82(1)
Land ownership and mapping
82(6)
Colonization and the subdivision of the earth
88(2)
The impact of the military on mapping activity
90(5)
Contemporary government mapping
95(4)
Summary
99(1)
Further reading
100(2)
New scales, new viewpoints
102(19)
Introduction
102(1)
The new world-view: an alternative icon
103(1)
Remote sensing and data
104(2)
Scale and accuracy beyond belief
106(3)
Old and new views
109(5)
Fractals: scale-free mapping
114(5)
Further reading
119(2)
Geographical information systems
121(16)
Introduction
121(1)
A short history of geographical information systems
121(4)
The democratization of map-making: removing the mystique
125(6)
The applications of GIS and their effect on our image of the world
131(3)
A critique of the GIS view of the world
134(1)
Further reading
135(2)
Alternative views
137(19)
Introduction
137(1)
Map propaganda
137(2)
Ecomapping
139(3)
Humanist cartography
142(4)
The `new' world atlases
146(4)
The cartography of war
150(4)
Summary
154(1)
Further reading
155(1)
Representing the future and the future of representation
156(17)
Introduction
156(1)
New tools and new data
157(2)
New roles and new maps
159(2)
Changing perspectives on cartographic practice
161(4)
Map-makers of the future
165(4)
The parameters of map production
169(3)
Further reading
172(1)
References 173(5)
Index 178

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