[MapHist] New MapHist Forum comment question
This is a MapHist list message. This list will close soon. Please continue the discussions at the MapHist Forum: http://www.maphist.nl/forum o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + How about creating an RSS feed for the new site? Perhaps not the same as a listserv but it will alert people to new updates on the site with the titles of entries and can be sent to a new folder in Outlook to avoid email clutter. Mike Casino New Hampshire -Original Message- From: maphist-boun...@geo.uu.nl [mailto:maphist-boun...@geo.uu.nl] On Behalf Of maphist-requ...@geo.uu.nl Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 6:00 AM To: maphist@geo.uu.nl Subject: Maphist Digest, Vol 77, Issue 12 Send Maphist mailing list submissions to maphist@geo.uu.nl To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mailman.geo.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/maphist or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to maphist-requ...@geo.uu.nl You can reach the person managing the list at maphist-ow...@geo.uu.nl When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Maphist digest... This list will close soon. Please continue the discussions at the MapHist Forum: http://www.maphist.nl/forum Today's Topics: 1. New MapHist Forum comment question (Jay L) 2. recent book (Rand Burnette) 3. Re: recent book (Joel Kovarsky) 4. The best American wall map: David Imus? ?The Essential Geography of the United States of America? - Slate MagazinofAmerica? - Slate Magazine (Rick Laprairie) -- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 13:53:45 -0500 From: Jay L carolinararem...@gmail.com Subject: [MapHist] New MapHist Forum comment question To: MapHist maph...@geog.uu.nl Message-ID: 6190881e-6479-46dd-befd-4fd6603c4...@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Peter, The new MapHist Forum ( http://www.maphist.nl/forum ) is very well designed, and I believe it will be highly successful. The option to receive notifications of new posts via email is not only great, but absolutely essential. I would assume those who were in favor of the forum design over the listserv are not using the email notifications since one of their stated goals was to de-clutter their inboxes. However, the forum (as opposed to the listserv) is still a time sink for some of us. Is it possible for the email notifications to include the actual new post and a link to it, rather than just a link? It would save a lot of time for those of us who don't mind the emails and, from my perspective, would make the new forum irresistible, combining the best of the old and new. Regards, Jay L. -- Jay Lester Chapel Hill, NC -- Message: 2 Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 15:12:22 -0600 From: Rand Burnette burne...@mchsi.com Subject: [MapHist] recent book To: Discussion group for map history maphist@geo.uu.nl Message-ID: e522e905-866b-44c4-af28-6b39a526c...@mchsi.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Last fall I received a copy of Martin Bruckner, ed. Early American Cartographies. Chapel Hill: University of North Caroline Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2011. The publication of the book was duly noted on the Map History list. At about the same time, however, another book was also published by the same press for the same sponsor, which I did not see mentioned. Paul W. Mapp's The Elusive West and the Conquest for Empire, 1713-1763, 455 pp.39 maps, and 4 plates should be of interest to historians of cartography, especially those concerned with North America. Part of the dust jacket reads: A truly continental history in both its geographic and political scope, The Elusive West and the Conquest for Empire investigates eighteenth-century diplomacy involving North America and links geographic ignorance about the American West to Europeans' grand geopolitical designs. Breaking from scholars' traditional focus of the Atlantic world, Paul Mapp demonstrates the centrality of hitherto understudied western regions to early American history. Mapp deals with the Spanish, French, British and Amerindians ideas about the west, especially the transMississippi west. The volume is well documented (footnotes at the bottom of the page, as with the Bruckner volume) with research in the various archives. Rand Burnette, Professor Emeritus of History, MacMurray College, Jacksonville, IL 62650 burne...@mchsi.com January 8, 2012 -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.geo.uu.nl/pipermail/maphist/attachments/20120108/1a882018/att achment-0001.html -- Message: 3 Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2012 16:47:36 -0500 From: Joel Kovarsky j...@theprimemeridian.com Subject: Re: [MapHist] recent book To: Discussion group for map history maphist@geo.uu.nl Message-ID
Re: [MapHist] New MapHist Forum comment question
This is a MapHist list message. This list will close soon. Please continue the discussions at the MapHist Forum: http://www.maphist.nl/forum o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + How about creating an RSS feed for the new site? Mike Casino New Hampshire Hi Mike, One of the problems with the email notifications is that you actually have to click on the link in the email and go to the forum or it will stop sending new notifications posted to that particular forum. That defeats the purpose of subscribing to the forum for email updates. Would that problem exist with RSS feed or not? I'm not RSS educated. Thanks, Jay L -- Jay Lester Chapel Hill, NC ___ MapHist: E-mail discussion group on the history of cartography hosted by the Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht. The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the University of Utrecht. The University of Utrecht does not take any responsibility for the views of the author. List Information: http://www.maphist.nl Maphist mailing list Maphist@geo.uu.nl http://mailman.geo.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/maphist
Re: [MapHist] New MapHist Forum comment question
This is a MapHist list message. This list will close soon. Please continue the discussions at the MapHist Forum: http://www.maphist.nl/forum o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + On 1/8/12 1:53 PM, Jay L carolinararem...@gmail.com wrote: The new MapHist Forum ( http://www.maphist.nl/forum ) is very well designed, and I believe it will be highly successful. The option to receive notifications of new posts via email is not only great, but absolutely essential... I'm glad you pointed this out, because I didn't realize that we could subscribe to particular forums and get email notifications when new posts appeared. I've set up my subscriptions and I'll see how it goes, but that was a concern I had about switching over from listserv mode. Is it possible for the email notifications to include the actual new post and a link to it, rather than just a link? It would save a lot of time for those of us who don't mind the emails and, from my perspective, would make the new forum irresistible, combining the best of the old and new. I agree. But in that case, I'd want to receive a notification every time the forum was updated, not just one time until I visit the forum, which is the way it's set up now. Thanks, Peter, for setting all this up. I can see a lot of work has gone into it. --Helen ø ø ø ø ø ø ø ø ø ø ø ø ø ø ø ø ø Helen Glazer, Creative Director George Glazer Gallery http://www.georgeglazer.com Antique Globes, Maps Prints ø ø ø ø ø ø ø ø ø ø ø ø ø ø ø ø ø ___ MapHist: E-mail discussion group on the history of cartography hosted by the Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht. The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the University of Utrecht. The University of Utrecht does not take any responsibility for the views of the author. List Information: http://www.maphist.nl Maphist mailing list Maphist@geo.uu.nl http://mailman.geo.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/maphist
[MapHist] New MapHist Forum comment
This is a MapHist list message. This list will close soon. Please continue the discussions at the MapHist Forum: http://www.maphist.nl/forum o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + Thanks to Peter, Ed, David, and all the others who worked so hard over the years on the MapHist listserv. I'll look forward to keeping up with information on the MapHist Forum in the future. Alberta Alberta Auringer Wood Honorary Research Librarian Memorial University of Newfoundland 66 Meredith Drive, P.O. Box 225 Ilderton, ON NOM 2A0 519-666-3282 aw...@mun.ca This electronic communication is governed by the terms and conditions at http://www.mun.ca/cc/policies/electronic_communications_disclaimer_2011.php ___ MapHist: E-mail discussion group on the history of cartography hosted by the Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht. The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the University of Utrecht. The University of Utrecht does not take any responsibility for the views of the author. List Information: http://www.maphist.nl Maphist mailing list Maphist@geo.uu.nl http://mailman.geo.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/maphist
[MapHist] New MapHist Forum comment question
This is a MapHist list message. This list will close soon. Please continue the discussions at the MapHist Forum: http://www.maphist.nl/forum o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + Peter, The new MapHist Forum ( http://www.maphist.nl/forum ) is very well designed, and I believe it will be highly successful. The option to receive notifications of new posts via email is not only great, but absolutely essential. I would assume those who were in favor of the forum design over the listserv are not using the email notifications since one of their stated goals was to de-clutter their inboxes. However, the forum (as opposed to the listserv) is still a time sink for some of us. Is it possible for the email notifications to include the actual new post and a link to it, rather than just a link? It would save a lot of time for those of us who don't mind the emails and, from my perspective, would make the new forum irresistible, combining the best of the old and new. Regards, Jay L. -- Jay Lester Chapel Hill, NC___ MapHist: E-mail discussion group on the history of cartography hosted by the Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht. The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the University of Utrecht. The University of Utrecht does not take any responsibility for the views of the author. List Information: http://www.maphist.nl Maphist mailing list Maphist@geo.uu.nl http://mailman.geo.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/maphist
