Format:
Online-Ressource (312 S.)
Edition:
1. Aufl.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
3642190871
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9781280396601
Series Statement:
Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography, 6
Content:
Imre Josef Demhardt
Content:
This volume comprises the proceedings of the 2010 International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography. The nineteen papers reflect the research interests of the Commission which span the period from the Enlightenment to the evolution of Geographical Information Science. Apart from studies on general cartography, the volume, which reflects some co-operation with the ICA Commission on Maps and Society and the United States Geological Survey (USGS), contains regional studies on cartographic endeavours in Northern America, Brazil, and Southern Africa.The ICA Commission on M
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CONTENTS; Part I Early Explorative Cartography; 1 Ferdinand Konšćak - Cartographer of the Compañia de Jesús and his Maps of Baja California; 2 The Caribbean Cartography of Samuel Fahlberg; Part II The United States in the Nineteenth Century; 3 Thematic Cartography and Federal Science in Antebellum America; 4 "An approximation to a bird's eye view, and is intelligibleto every eye []". Friedrich Wilhelm von Egloffstein,the Exploration of the American West, and Its FirstRelief Shaded Maps; 5 Mapping Nationalism: A German Map of GermanSettlements in the United States of the 1890s
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Part III The United States Geological Survey6 The Technology War, the Magical Aeroplane, and the Shift to Photogrammetry in American Public-Sector Mapmaking; 7 The Digital Transition in Cartography: USGS DataInnovations, 1970s; 8 The Use of U.S. Geological Survey Digital GeospatialData Products for Science Research; Part IV New Mexico; 9 Colonizing Chaco Canyon: Mapping Antiquity in the US Southwest; 10 Bounding a Sacred Space: Mapping the Mt. TaylorTraditional Cultural Property; Part V Brazilian Cartography; 11 The Cartography of the Brazilian Empire
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12 Cartographic Rumors, Brazilian Nationalism,and the Mapping of the Amazon Valley13 Theoretical Frameworks for the Study of Journalistic Maps:South American Borders in the Brazilian Press; Part VI Southern Africa; 14 Unveiling the Geography of the Cape of Good Hope: Selected VOC Maps of the Interior of South Africa; 15 László Magyar's Cartography of Angola and the Discoveryof his 1858 Manuscript Map in the Cholnoky Collectionin Romania; 16 Missionary Cartography in Colonial Africa: Casesfrom South Africa; Part VII General Cartography
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17 Earthcube: Christian Gottlieb Reichard's Point of View on the Earth18 Cartography's "Scientific Reformation" and the Studyof Topographical Mapping in the Modern Era; Erratum
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 364219088X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783642190889
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783642190872
Language:
English
Subjects:
Geography
Keywords:
Kartografie
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Geschichte
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Konferenzschrift
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-642-19088-9
