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Creating Modern Maps

Author : Cynthia Kennedy Henzel
Publisher : ABDO Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1617849316
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Creating Modern Maps written by Cynthia Kennedy Henzel and published by ABDO Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book walks readers through the improvements made to navigational instruments and printing techniques since the Age of Exploration. The development of accuracy in cartography-from Martin Waldseemüller's map of the world, the Mercator projection, and Lewis and Clark's expedition to railroad surveys, roadmaps, satellite imaging, and GIS technology-is also discussed. Readers will also discover ways mapmaking has impacted the history of the United States, including Mountain Men and the discovery of South Pass, the Oregon Trail, and the 49th parallel. Colorful maps and diagrams highlight the text, demonstrating these innovations and milestones. Informative sidebars, bold glossary terms, and an index enhance the engaging text and graphics.

The Geography and Map Division

Author : Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Geography and Map Division written by Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cartography

Author : Kenneth Field
Publisher : ESRI Press
ISBN 13 : 9781589485020
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Cartography written by Kenneth Field and published by ESRI Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2019 International Cartographic Conference - Educational Products award: A comprehensive, one-stop-shop cartography guide, Cartography. serves as a reference and an inspiration for anyone who is required to make a map, but it does so using a modern visual style.

Map Men

Author : Steven Seegel
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022643852X
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Map Men written by Steven Seegel and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-06-29 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than just colorful clickbait or pragmatic city grids, maps are often deeply emotional tales: of political projects gone wrong, budding relationships that failed, and countries that vanished. In Map Men, Steven Seegel takes us through some of these historical dramas with a detailed look at the maps that made and unmade the world of East Central Europe through a long continuum of world war and revolution. As a collective biography of five prominent geographers between 1870 and 1950—Albrecht Penck, Eugeniusz Romer, Stepan Rudnyts’kyi, Isaiah Bowman, and Count Pál Teleki—Map Men reexamines the deep emotions, textures of friendship, and multigenerational sagas behind these influential maps. Taking us deep into cartographical archives, Seegel re-creates the public and private worlds of these five mapmakers, who interacted with and influenced one another even as they played key roles in defining and redefining borders, territories, nations—and, ultimately, the interconnection of the world through two world wars. Throughout, he examines the transnational nature of these processes and addresses weighty questions about the causes and consequences of the world wars, the rise of Nazism and Stalinism, and the reasons East Central Europe became the fault line of these world-changing developments. At a time when East Central Europe has surged back into geopolitical consciousness, Map Men offers a timely and important look at the historical origins of how the region was defined—and the key people who helped define it.

Mapping the Cold War

Author : Timothy Barney
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469618559
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Mapping the Cold War written by Timothy Barney and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-04-13 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating history of Cold War cartography, Timothy Barney considers maps as central to the articulation of ideological tensions between American national interests and international aspirations. Barney argues that the borders, scales, projections, and other conventions of maps prescribed and constrained the means by which foreign policy elites, popular audiences, and social activists navigated conflicts between North and South, East and West. Maps also influenced how identities were formed in a world both shrunk by advancing technologies and marked by expanding and shifting geopolitical alliances and fissures. Pointing to the necessity of how politics and values were "spatialized" in recent U.S. history, Barney argues that Cold War–era maps themselves had rhetorical lives that began with their conception and production and played out in their circulation within foreign policy circles and popular media. Reflecting on the ramifications of spatial power during the period, Mapping the Cold War ultimately demonstrates that even in the twenty-first century, American visions of the world--and the maps that account for them--are inescapably rooted in the anxieties of that earlier era.

User Story Mapping

Author : Jeff Patton
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 1491904887
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (919 download)

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Download or read book User Story Mapping written by Jeff Patton and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2014-09-05 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: User story mapping is a valuable tool for software development, once you understand why and how to use it. This insightful book examines how this often misunderstood technique can help your team stay focused on users and their needs without getting lost in the enthusiasm for individual product features. Author Jeff Patton shows you how changeable story maps enable your team to hold better conversations about the project throughout the development process. Your team will learn to come away with a shared understanding of what you’re attempting to build and why. Get a high-level view of story mapping, with an exercise to learn key concepts quickly Understand how stories really work, and how they come to life in Agile and Lean projects Dive into a story’s lifecycle, starting with opportunities and moving deeper into discovery Prepare your stories, pay attention while they’re built, and learn from those you convert to working software

Rome Measured and Imagined

Author : Jessica Maier
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022612763X
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Rome Measured and Imagined written by Jessica Maier and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the turn of the fifteenth century, Rome was a city in transitionparts ancient, medieval, and modern; pagan and Christianand as it emerged from its medieval decline through the return of papal power and the onset of the Renaissance, its portrayals in print transformed as well. Jessica Maier s book explores the history of the Roman city portrait genre during the rise of Renaissance print culture. She illustrates how the maps of this era helped to promote the city, to educate, and to facilitate armchair exploration and what they reveal about how the people of Rome viewed or otherwise imagined their city. She also advances our understanding of early modern cartography, which embodies a delicate, intentional balance between science and art. The text is beautifully illustrated with nearly 100 images of the genre, a dozen of them in color."

Cartographics

Author : SendPoints
Publisher : Sendpoints
ISBN 13 : 9789881470331
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Cartographics written by SendPoints and published by Sendpoints. This book was released on 2017-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of maps that tread off the beaten path of mapmaking and redefine exactly what a map can do. Some incorporate strategies from infographics, such as one that uses abstract depictions of public transportation lines to display riders travel patterns, while others use traditional strategies to explore contemporary subjects such as maps of countries in video games, gentrification in Brooklyn, or the geology of Great Britain. With hundreds of innovative maps from cartographers around the world, in which innovation, observation, and artistic vision are linked as one.

Making China Modern

Author : Klaus Mühlhahn
Publisher : Belknap Press
ISBN 13 : 0674737350
Total Pages : 737 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Making China Modern written by Klaus Mühlhahn and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 2019-01-14 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Thoughtful, probing...a worthy successor to the famous histories of Fairbank and Spence [that] will be read by all students and scholars of modern China.” —William C. Kirby, coauthor of Can China Lead? It is tempting to attribute the rise of China to Deng Xiaoping and to recent changes in economic policy. But China has a long history of creative adaptation. In the eighteenth century, the Qing Empire dominated a third of the world’s population. Then, as the Opium Wars and the Taiping Rebellion ripped the country apart, China found itself verging on free fall. More recently, after Mao, China managed a surprising recovery, rapidly undergoing profound economic and social change. A dynamic story of crisis and recovery, failure and triumph, Making China Modern explores the versatility and resourcefulness that guaranteed China’s survival, powered its rise, and will determine its future. “Chronicles reforms, revolutions, and wars through the lens of institutions, often rebutting Western impressions.” —New Yorker “A remarkable accomplishment. Unlike an earlier generation of scholarship, Making China Modern does not treat China’s contemporary transformation as a postscript. It accepts China as a major and active player in the world, places China at the center of an interconnected and global network of engagement, links domestic politics to international dynamics, and seeks to approach China on its own terms.” —Wen-hsin Yeh, author of Shanghai Splendor

The Public Mapping Project

Author : Michael P. McDonald
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501738569
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Public Mapping Project written by Michael P. McDonald and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Laurence and Lynne Brown Democracy Medal is an initiative of the McCourtney Institute for Democracy at Pennsylvania State University. It annually recognizes outstanding individuals, groups, and organizations that produce exceptional innovations to further democracy in the United States or around the world. Micah Altman and Michael P. McDonald unveil the Public Mapping Project, which developed DistrictBuilder, an open-source software redistricting application designed to give the public transparent, accessible, and easy-to-use online mapping tools. As they show, the goal is for all citizens to have access to the same information that legislators use when drawing congressional maps—and use that data to create maps of their own. Thanks to generous funding from The Pennsylvania State University, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.

The Commerce of Cartography

Author : Mary Sponberg Pedley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226653412
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book The Commerce of Cartography written by Mary Sponberg Pedley and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Vargic's Miscellany of Curious Maps

Author : Martin Vargic
Publisher : Harper Design
ISBN 13 : 9780062389220
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Vargic's Miscellany of Curious Maps written by Martin Vargic and published by Harper Design. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable, fascinating and beautiful visual guide to the world as you have never seen it. Vargic’s Miscellany of Curious Maps is a wonderfully weird collection of meticulous and striking cartographic creations, such as the infamous Map of Stereotypes. Based on a Westerner’s stereotypical view of the world, Slovakian artist and cartophile Martin Vargic assigns more than two thousand labels and prejudices to cities, states, countries, continents, oceans and seas on a large-scale, visually stunning world map, which alone took more than four months to create. The conceptual Map of the Internet and the Map of Sports are exquisite and surprising, and infographic maps showing the number of heavy-metal bands per capita, the probability of getting struck by lightning, average penis length, and the number of tractors per 1,000 inhabitants make it hard not to share with the person next to you. Including more than 70 maps, four foldout maps and two oversized removable posters, this book is a treasure trove of unexpected facts of our quirky, glorious and diverse big beautiful world.

Map-making, Landscapes and Memory

Author : William J. Smyth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Map-making, Landscapes and Memory written by William J. Smyth and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the first engagement in one book by a geographer with the most formative and revolutionary period (c. 1530-1750) in Ireland's history. Using the intertwined concepts of 'colonialism' and 'early modernity', the book comprises a geographical analysis of the conquest and settlement of Ireland by the New English (and Scottish). The consequences of this often violent intrusion upon the cultures and landscapes of pre-existing Irish societies are examined. The geographies of resistance or accommodation to conquest and colonisation and the striking cultural continuities and hybrid cultural forms that emerged from these encounters are explored and regionalised."--BOOK JACKET.

Mapping the Nation

Author : Susan Schulten
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226740706
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Mapping the Nation written by Susan Schulten and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-06-29 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A compelling read” that reveals how maps became informational tools charting everything from epidemics to slavery (Journal of American History). In the nineteenth century, Americans began to use maps in radically new ways. For the first time, medical men mapped diseases to understand and prevent epidemics, natural scientists mapped climate and rainfall to uncover weather patterns, educators mapped the past to foster national loyalty among students, and Northerners mapped slavery to assess the power of the South. After the Civil War, federal agencies embraced statistical and thematic mapping in order to profile the ethnic, racial, economic, moral, and physical attributes of a reunified nation. By the end of the century, Congress had authorized a national archive of maps, an explicit recognition that old maps were not relics to be discarded but unique records of the nation’s past. All of these experiments involved the realization that maps were not just illustrations of data, but visual tools that were uniquely equipped to convey complex ideas and information. In Mapping the Nation, Susan Schulten charts how maps of epidemic disease, slavery, census statistics, the environment, and the past demonstrated the analytical potential of cartography, and in the process transformed the very meaning of a map. Today, statistical and thematic maps are so ubiquitous that we take for granted that data will be arranged cartographically. Whether for urban planning, public health, marketing, or political strategy, maps have become everyday tools of social organization, governance, and economics. The world we inhabit—saturated with maps and graphic information—grew out of this sea change in spatial thought and representation in the nineteenth century, when Americans learned to see themselves and their nation in new dimensions.

Maps

Author : James R. Akerman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Maps written by James R. Akerman and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing readers to a wide range of maps from different time periods and a variety of cultures, this book confirms the vital roles of maps throughout history in commerce, art, literature, and national identity.

Maps for the Modern World

Author : Valerie June Hockett
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1524870358
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Maps for the Modern World written by Valerie June Hockett and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poetic call for mindfulness, creativity, and analog real-world connection in an increasingly disconnected world from singer-songwriter Valerie June. Maps for the Modern World is a collection of poems and original illustrations about cultivating community, awareness, and harmony with our surroundings as we move fearlessly toward our dreams. I love you Like a fall leaf dancing And twirling in the wind Softly landing, Returning to the warm earth Rest Make new Begin Again -comfortably

How to Lie with Maps

Author : Mark Monmonier
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022643608X
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book How to Lie with Maps written by Mark Monmonier and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-04-13 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An updated edition of the “humorous, informative and perceptive” guide to how maps can lead us astray (Toronto Globe and Mail). An instant classic when first published in 1991, How to Lie with Maps revealed how the choices mapmakers make—consciously or unconsciously—mean that every map inevitably presents only one of many possible stories about the places it depicts. The principles Mark Monmonier outlined back then remain true today, despite significant technological changes in the making and use of maps. The introduction and spread of digital maps and mapping software, however, have added new wrinkles to the ever-evolving landscape of modern mapmaking. Fully updated for the digital age, this new edition of How to Lie with Maps examines the myriad ways that technology offers new opportunities for cartographic mischief, deception, and propaganda. While retaining the same brevity, range, and humor as its predecessors, this third edition includes significant updates throughout as well as new chapters on image maps, prohibitive cartography, and online maps. It also includes an expanded section of color images and an updated list of sources for further reading. Praise for previous editions of How to Lie with Maps “Will leave you much better defended against cheap atlases, shoddy journalism, unscrupulous advertisers, predatory special-interest groups, and others who may use or abuse maps at your expense.” —Christian Science Monitor