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-----Original Message----- From: A forum for issues related to map & spatial data librarianship [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of UTP Journals Sent: 16 April 2010 15:33 To: [email protected] Subject: Cartographica 45:1 2010 is now available online Just released! Cartographica 45:1, 2010 Cartographica Volume 45, Number 1 /2010 is now available at <http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/l1w218m8k560/> http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/l1w218m8k560/. This issue contains: <http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/kv6v0263lh8gx712/> Just Maps: Google's Democratic Map-Making Community? Andrew Boulton http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/kv6v0263lh8gx712/?p=fbb76155309 a4736ba0b7c2b20499019&pi=0 <http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/k34254123187u293/> Teaching Cartography in Academia: A Historical Reflection and Discussion of a 2007 Survey of Canadian Universities Sally Hermansen Abstract: Courses in cartography that thrived in university departments of geography in the 1970s and 1980s declined in number in the early 1990s, mostly to accommodate GIS but also partly in response to the cultural turn in geography away from quantitative methods. Today, we are witnessing a revival of mapping and cartography as a result of enhanced software tools for the creation of maps, the Internet and public mapping sites for the creation and dissemination of maps, community cartography projects, and a shift from traditional cartography to representation and geovisualization. As described in this article, a 2007 survey of cartography course offerings at Canadian universities sought to explore whether, and how, this revival has been reflected in the academic teaching of cartography necessary to support aesthetics of map design and tools for geovisualization. The results demonstrate that cartography courses are offered at almost all Canadian universities. At the introductory level, course content does not vary significantly from fundamental principles of cartography. At the advanced level, however, course content is highly varied, embracing the wide range of topics relevant to the new cartography and visualization epistemology of today. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/k34254123187u293/?p=fbb76155309 a4736ba0b7c2b20499019&pi=1 <http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/k7218g1764583203/> Essential, Illustrative, or . Just Propaganda? Rethinking John Snow's Broad Street Map Tom Koch, Ken Denike Abstract: For more than a century John Snow's iconic map of an 1854 cholera outbreak in the Broad Street area of Soho, London, has been the very definition of how to discover the source of a disease. Some now argue, however, that the map was merely an illustrative and not very imaginative graphic. Here we argue that this position is incorrect. Snow's mapping of the Broad Street outbreak produced a spatial argument that was a critical evidentiary statement. This position requires us to ask, If that is true, is the map in part responsible for Snow's inability to convince contemporaries of his argument that cholera was water-borne and not airborne? In doing so, we use mid-nineteenth-century methodologies to demonstrate that the problem was not in the map but in Snow's handling of the data. This review of a seminal study in the history of disease studies not only informs historical perspective but, in its conclusions, speaks to the utility of medical mapping in contemporary disease studies, where spatialization of a disease event remains a critical method of investigation. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/k7218g1764583203/?p=fbb76155309 a4736ba0b7c2b20499019&pi=2 <http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/k3735653p327346k/> Mapping Champlain's Travels: Restorative Techniques for Historical Cartography Margaret Wickens Pearce, Michael James Hermann Abstract: Samuel de Champlain's travels through what would become New France have been extensively documented and mapped by geographers and historians today. As conventional cartographic depictions of the routes of a European explorer and colonizer, these maps portray the locational details of Champlain's journeys but omit the emotional geographies and the sense of place evoked in his journals, as well as the Indigenous geographies interwoven with Champlain's story. This article suggests techniques for restoring multiple experiences and multiple voices to the historical cartography of Champlain's travels, including the expressive use of colour and type, the blending of spatial and temporal scales in sequential insets, the incorporation of mental maps and dream geographies, and the representation of Native voices through place names and imagined dialogue. In so doing, the authors reimagine historical cartography for the representation of place rather than space by taking a narrative approach to cartographic language. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/k3735653p327346k/?p=fbb76155309 a4736ba0b7c2b20499019&pi=3 <http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/k68n113161072235/> Using Spatial Analysis and Geovisualization to Reveal Urban Changes: Milan, Italy, 1737-2005 Michele Tucci, Alberto Giordano, Rocco W. Ronza Abstract: The Italian city of Milan provides a fascinating laboratory for disentangling the historical layers that structure the spatial layout of a European city. In the last 250 years, the temporal span of this study, Milan has played a key role in Italy's industrialization and as its gateway to the centres of economic and cultural modernization in Western Europe. This article proposes a spatial analytical methodology that incorporates geovisualization techniques to discover and map urban change in Milan. Using historical maps dating back to the eighteenth century and a 2005 official city map, we applied methods of spatial analysis and geovisualization techniques to determine which parts of the city changed the most in the time interval considered. We then drew parallels between urban changes and political changes in the history of the city. Urban change is defined here as a change in the form and structure of the city (new buildings, new or widened roads, new squares, etc.). Results indicate that morphological changes at the intra-urban scale in Milan appear to be spatially oriented to reflect national and international political events from the mid-eighteenth century to the present. Although this result was not unexpected, the extent to which changes in the built-up environment reflect historical events was somewhat surprising. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/k68n113161072235/?p=fbb76155309 a4736ba0b7c2b20499019&pi=4 <http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/k818832270q7p552/> Automated Reduction of Visual Complexity in Small-Scale Relief Shading Anna M. Leonowicz, Bernhard Jenny, Lorenz Hurni Abstract: Shaded relief derived automatically from digital elevation models differs distinctly from traditional manual shading. Particularly at small scales, many small topographic details that are present in terrain models disturb the clear portrayal of the main relief features. Automatic shading is therefore not appropriate for high-quality cartographic products. This paper proposes a new method of generalizing digital elevation models for deriving small-scale shaded relief that resembles the manual style. The procedure consists of the following raster operations: undesirable topographic details are smoothed with low-pass filters, and the main landforms, such as ridgelines and valleys, are detected by curvature coefficients. Two secondary grids are derived, one exaggerating ridgelines, the other deepening valley bottoms, and the two grids are combined according to the character of the terrain; the grid with exaggerated ridgelines is used in mountainous areas, and the grid with deepened valley bottoms in lowland areas. Finally, shaded relief is derived from the combined elevation model. Following these processing steps, only a few manual corrections are necessary to produce high-quality small-scale relief shading. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/k818832270q7p552/?p=fbb76155309 a4736ba0b7c2b20499019&pi=5 <http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/kl64124003661055/> Technical Notes and Ephemera Roger Wheate http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/kl64124003661055/?p=fbb76155309 a4736ba0b7c2b20499019&pi=6 <http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/k180h42w17n71r45/> Reviews of Books & Atlases http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/k180h42w17n71r45/?p=fbb76155309 a4736ba0b7c2b20499019&pi=7 _____ Cartographica Cartographica, the international journal for geographic information and geovisualization, is now available electronically and includes the complete back file of previously published articles going back to 1964 with issue 1.1, when Cartographica was known as The Cartographer. 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Cartographica, edited by Jeremy Crampton, delivers in-depth research and writing covering a wide range of cartographic studies, including the production, design, use, and cognitive understanding of maps, the history of maps, and geographic information systems. For more information about Cartographica or Cartographica Online or for submissions information, please contact University of Toronto Press - Journals Division 5201 Dufferin St., Toronto, ON, Canada M3H 5T8 tel: (416) 667-7810 fax: (416) 667-7881 Fax Toll Free in North America 1-800-221-9985 email: [email protected] www.utpjournals.com/carto UTP Journals on Facebook www.facebook.com/utpjournals Join us for advance notice of tables of contents of forthcoming issues, author and editor commentaries and insights, calls for papers and advice on publishing in our journals. Become a fan and receive free access to articles weekly through UTPJournals focus. Posted by T Hawkins, UTP Journals
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