Understanding Maps - Softcover

Keates, J.S. S.

 
9780582239272: Understanding Maps
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0582239273 ISBN 13: 9780582239272
Verlag: Routledge, 1996

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This revised and expanded second edition continues to address the fundamental principles of visual perception and map symbolism, and critically examines the assumptions which lay behind the theories of psychophysical testing and cartographic communication.

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J.S. Keates

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Understanding Maps, revised and expanded for this second edition, continues to address the fundamental principles of visual perception and map symbolism.

The text critically examines the assumptions which lie behind the theories of psychophysical testing and cartographic communication. It extends this critique to much neglected topics such as cartographic skill and the connections between cartography and art. This includes the use of classical rhetoric as a model for applied art; the differences between maps and written texts; the real relationships between cartography and art, and the nature of cartographic style. The final section deals with cartographic skill, particularly with incorporating skill into artificially intelligent and expert systems of digital mapping.

Key features:

- Outlines the processes of visual perception in relation to maps
- Discusses the cartographic problems of representing three dimensions in two
- Examines mapping as a form of communication, providing an original contribution to understanding map design and use
- Analyses maps as artistic works, dealing with aesthetic properties, composition, generalisation and style
- Challenges many established assumptions and conventional views, introducing many new concepts
- Relates theoretical concepts to specific map examples

Understanding Maps is written for postgraduate students of cartography and for undergraduates taking cartography within topographic science, geography, GIS and the mapping science field. It also provides interesting and thought-provoking reading to anyone with a serious interest in maps and map making.

John S Keates is a renowned practitioner and author in the field of cartography. Now retired, he was formerly Reader in Cartography in the Department of Geography and Topographic Science at the University of Glasgow, UK. He initiated and edited the Cartographic Journal from 1964 to 1970 and is a past President of the British Cartographic Society. In 1979 he was awarded the OBE for 'services to cartography'.

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Verlag
Routledge
Erscheinungsdatum
1996
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0582239273
ISBN 13 
9780582239272
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
350
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