Poring Over the World at Court. Coronelli’s Globes and Social Lives of Maps in France (1680-1715). An article from journal Material Culture Review / Revue de la culture matérielle (Thematic Issue: The Maps, Volume 3), on Érudit.

This paper proposes an algorithm for simplifying point features on maps based on the multiplicatively weighted Voronoi diagram (MWVD). To ensure statistical, thematic, metric, and topological information contained in the original point features can be transmitted correctly after simplification, the algorithm selects corresponding measures to quantify these four types of information, and integra...

Metropolitan cities like Chennai facing rapid urbanisation. This results in informal extension of cities in peri-urban and rural areas. Once the city expands the problem arising is the water supply and sewage treatment system. In the present work an attempt is made in site suitable selection of Decentralised treatment plants (DCTP) with appropriate waste water treatment technologies using GIS t...

The aim of this study was to identify spatial patterns in the incidence of childhood tuberculosis in cities in the state of São Paulo. An ecological and exploratory study was carried with data on new cases of tuberculosis in children 0 to 14 years old for the period 2001 to 2005 and from 2006 to 2010, obtained from DATASUS. Data of the population of this age group were collected and raised rate...

The purpose of this study was to present a spatial analysis of the social vulnerability of teenage pregnancy by geoprocessing data on births and deaths present on the Brazilian Ministry of Health databases in order to support intersectoral management actions and strategies based on spatial analysis in neighborhood areas. The thematic maps of the educational, occupational, birth and marital stat...

Graphical documents such as cartographic maps contain a great variety of textual elements appearing in different spatial positions, in different fonts, sizes, and colors, touching and overlapping graphical symbols. This greatly complicates automatic optical recognition of such textual elements in the process of raster-to-vector conversion of graphical documents. In this work, we propose a metho...

Statistical maps are of great interest both to cartographers and to statisti cians. Cartographers and geographers consider such maps as a very important cate gory of thematic maps. Statisticians view them as applications of the graphicalstatistical method to the special case in which the data to be graphed are detailed geographically. Professor Jenks and Professor Robinson have discussed statis...