Early modern maps were surrounded by and interspersed with texts of many kinds. The intimate relationship between cartographic image and geographical text in the map was due to the map’s mixed media structure and its early appearance in the context of history books, travel reports, or chorographic descriptions. Literature was based on other types of text. Epic, drama, and poetry were essentiall...

While knowledge management (KM) is becoming an established discipline with many applications and techniques, its adoption in healthcare has been challenging. It facilitates the creation, identification, acquisition, development, preservation, dissemination, and finally utilization of various facets of a healthcare enterprise’s knowledge assets. Knowledge identification and preservation are two ...

Abstract Based on the recently developed approach of 'post-critical cartography', this article addresses how developments in cartography can be interpreted functionally, dysfunctionally, afunctionally, and metafunctionally. This interpretation takes up sociological topic deviance . Normatively, bases Ralf Dahrendorf’s concept life chances. It includes established terminology which applied to de...

The most important changes in cartography are associated with the development of computer technology (GIS), and regarding the function and usage of maps, the accent has been given to cartographic visualisation. The paper emphasises the need for closer collaboration of informatic experts, geodesists, geographers, spatial planners and others with cartographers. The future of cartography is associ...

Mobile cartography aims at producing appropriate presentations of geographic information for mobile users, for instance in the form of map based mobile services. Major influences come from new technologies like Location Based Services. Due to the small displays of mobile devices and specific mobile usage contexts selecting and presenting only the most relevant information is indispensable. The ...

Many aspects of cultural topics are related to space and may be better understood by using appropriate presentation techniques in this context. For the view of cartography, there is the hypothesis that the research of, and communication among experts in art, history and archaeology may be better supported with the power and tools of Internet-, multimediaand three dimensional cartography. At the...