The starting point for this article is the fact that each spatial object i is characterized by three coordinates: x (latitude), y (longitude) and zi(by tradition elevation). The discussion is organized around three axes. First, the author reviews some of main problems encountered when representing a volume (ellipsoid) on a plane (map). Second, some elementary principles of cartography are discu...

The paper presents advantages of contextual cartography (or adaptive cartography) for the Digital Earth vision. Theoretical background connecting Digital Earth and contextual cartographic visualization is followed by practical example from an environment where the time is crucial: Crisis management. The example includes configuration process of Contextual Web Map Service (CWMS) called Sissi tha...

Affective Cartography is currently being explored by cartographers. Different artistic outcomes are demonstrating how contemporary, new media art and design projects can be used for investigating the relationship between people and space in order to discover new realities, perceptions and emotions that possibly could remain unknown under the objectivity of the conventional map representations. ...

A Cartografia Escolar no Brasil tem se constituído por meio da relação entre Cartografia, Educação e Geografia. As teorias aprendizagem os métodos de ensino, fatores relacionados às questões do currículo formação professores, são frequentemente debatidos nesse campo. Buscando contribuir com esse debate, este artigo, um exercício metateórico, apresenta as contribuições das Piaget Vigotski para a...

Serotonin is an essential neuromodulator, but the precise circuit connectivity that regulates serotonergic neurons has not been well defined. Using rabies virus tracing strategies Weissbourd et al. (2014) and Pollak Dorocic et al. (2014) in this issue of Neuron and Ogawa et al. (2014) in Cell Reports provide a comprehensive map of the inputs to serotonergic neurons, highlighting the complexity ...