This paper is meant to be the beginning of a project that examines the use of abstract mathematics and the changing ontology of mapmaking in the early years of the development of computer cartography. The history of the conceptual developments that took place during this revolutionary period in the history of mapmaking is both controversial and incomplete. Much of the primary source material ha...

This article summarizes the Special Issue of Cartography and Geomedia. Here, Geomedia presents a view cartography as combination technology, science, art, with focus on development geomedia in geomatic design-based context. Individual considerations are presented according to following topics: efficiency mapping techniques; historical cartographic works geomedial context; pragmatics for cultura...

This paper examines the development of analytical cartography and the contributions Waldo Tobler has made to it, starting well before his definition of the subject in 1976. Analytical cartography's roots in '''Torld War 11and the Cold War are examined, and the influences and precedents for the academic course that Tobler described are discussed. The systems of knowledge production developed for...

Genetic and Functional Cartography of the Central Amygdala

Maps are ubiquitous in movies. They appear constantly and in a variety of forms: hung on the wall of a classroom, framed in an office, and unfolded by gangsters on a table. In movies maps serve a variety of purposes: They serve as decoration, as a means of location, to aid narration, as metaphors as well as to increase the dramatic tension of a sequence. They can play a prominent role in the un...

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