Mapping : ways of representing the world /

"Maps tell us as much about the people and the powers which create them, as about the places they show. Mapping: Ways of Representing the World, presents historical and contemporary evidence of how the human urge to describe, understand and control the world is presented through the medium of m...

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Main Author: Dorling, Daniel
Other Authors: Fairbairn, David, 1954-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Harlow, Essex, England : Longman, 1997.
Series:Insights into human geography.
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520 1 |a "Maps tell us as much about the people and the powers which create them, as about the places they show. Mapping: Ways of Representing the World, presents historical and contemporary evidence of how the human urge to describe, understand and control the world is presented through the medium of maps, together with the individual and environmental constraints on the creator of the map."--Jacket. 
505 0 |a THE HISTORY OF CARTOGRAPHY: An introduction to early maps -- The human mind and the shape of the earth: reconciling interpretation and reality -- The relationship of mapping to other human activities -- The Islamic tradition in map-making -- Contemporary mapping box methods of studying the history of cartography -- Personality box Ptolemy and the scientific nature of Greek cartography -- THE SHAPE AND CONTENT OF MAPS: Maps and their scale -- The graticule -- Map projections -- Larger-scale mapping -- Contemporary mapping box the map icon in entertainment, communication and advertising -- Personality box The 'Peters Projection' and its instigator -- NAVIGATION, MAPS AND ACCURACY: Positioning -- Navigation -- Accuracy -- Contemporary mapping box GPS and positioning -- Personality box Mercator and his world-view -- Contemporary mapping box ECDIS -- Contemporary mapping box in-car navigation -- Contemporary mapping box digital data in the cockpit -- REPRESENTING OTHERS: Who are maps made for? -- Map compilation -- Interpreting the interpreters -- An infinity of images -- Contemporary mapping box American Indians and geographical information systems -- Personality box Brian Harley: taking mapping apart -- Contemporary mapping box cartography and the internet -- 
505 0 |a MAPPING TERRITORY: Land ownership and mapping -- Colonization and the subdivision of the earth -- The impact of the military on mapping activity -- Contemporary government mapping -- Contemporary mapping box settling the USA: the public land survey system -- Contemporary mapping box mapping the gulf war -- Contemporary mapping box the NIMA inventory of digital spatial data -- Personality box William Roy and the ordnance survey -- NEW SCALES, NEW VIEWPOINTS: The new world-view: an alternative icon -- Remote sensing and data -- Scale and accuracy beyond belief -- Old and new views -- Fractals: scale-free mapping -- Contemporary mapping box pictures from space: the military and mapping -- Contemporary mapping box mapping time travel -- Personality box Eduard Imhof and terrain mapping -- Contemporary mapping box the three- and four-dimensional mapping of disease -- GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS: A short history of geographical information systems -- The democratization of map-making: removing the mystique -- The applications of GIS and their effect on our image of the world -- A critique of the GIS view of the world -- Personality box Jack Dangermond and the radical view of the world of GIS -- Contemporary mapping box earliest geographical information systems -- Contemporary mapping box ways of owning the world -- Contemporary mapping box GIS and jobs -- ALTERNATIVE VIEWS: Map propaganda -- Ecomapping -- Humanist cartography -- The 'new' world atlases -- The cartography of war -- Personality box Doug Aberley: map-maker and bioregionalist -- Personality box Janos Szego and human cartography -- Contemporary mapping box cartograms: changing the shape of the world -- Personality box Michael Kidron and the pluto press project -- REPRESENTING THE FUTURE AND THE FUTURE OF REPRESENTATION: New tools and new data -- New roles and new maps -- Changing perspectives on cartographic practice -- Map-makers of the future -- The parameters of map production -- Personality box Barbara Bartz Petchenik. 
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650 0 |a Geographic information systems. 
650 0 |a Human geography. 
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