Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2011. — 478 p. — ISBN 0470742839The Map Reader brings together, for the first time, classic and hard-to-find articles on mapping. This book provides a wide-ranging and coherent edited compendium of key scholarly writing about the changing nature of cartography over the last half century. The editorial selection of fifty-four theoretical and thought provoking texts demonstrates how cartography works as a powerful representational form and explores how different mapping practices have been conceptualised in particular scholarly contexts.
Themes covered include paradigms, politics, people, aesthetics and technology. Original interpretative essays set the literature into intellectual context within these themes. Excerpts are drawn from leading scholars and researchers in a range of cognate fields including: Cartography, Geography, Anthropology, Architecture, Engineering, Computer Science and Graphic Design.
The Map Reader provides a new unique single source reference to the essential literature in the cartographic field:
more than fifty specially edited excerpts from key, classic articles and monographs critical introductions by experienced experts in the field focused coverage of key mapping practices, techniques and ideas a valuable resource suited to a broad spectrum of researchers and students working in cartography and GIScience, geography, the social sciences, media studies, and visual arts full page colour illustrations of significant maps as provocative visual ‘think-pieces’ fully indexed, clearly structured and accessible ways into a fast changing field of cartographic researchConceptualising Mapping
Introductory Essay: Conceptualising Mapping
General Theory, from Semiology of Graphics
On Maps and Mapping, from The Nature of Maps: Essays toward Understanding Maps and Mapping
The Science of Cartography and its Essential Processes
Analytical Cartography
Cartographic Communication
Design on Signs/Myth and Meaning in Maps
Deconstructing the Map
Drawing Things Together
Cartography without ‘Progress’: Reinterpreting the Nature and Historical Development of Mapmaking
Exploratory Cartographic Visualisation: Advancing the Agenda
The Agency of Mapping: Speculation, Critique and Invention
Beyond the ‘Binaries’: A Methodological Intervention for Interrogating Maps as Representational Practices
Rethinking Maps
Technologies of Mapping
Introductory Essay: Technologies of Mapping
A Century of Cartographic Change, from Technological Transition in Cartography
Manufacturing Metaphors: Public Cartography, the Market, and Democracy
Maps and Mapping Technologies of the Persian Gulf War
Automation and Cartography
Cartographic Futures on a Digital Earth
Cartography and Geographic Information Systems
Remote Sensing of Urban/Suburban Infrastructure and Socio-Economic Attributes
Emergence of Map Projections, from Flattening the Earth: Two Thousand Years of Map Projections
Mobile Mapping: An Emerging Technology for Spatial Data Acquisition
Extending the Map Metaphor Using Web Delivered Multimedia
Imaging the World: The State of Online Mapping
Cartographic Aesthetics and Map Design
Introductory Essay: Cartographic Aesthetics and Map Design
Interplay of Elements, from Cartographic Relief Presentation
Cartography as a Visual Technique, from The Look of Maps
Generalisation in Statistical Mapping
Strategies for the Visualisation of Geographic Time-Series Data
The Roles of Maps, from Some Truth with Maps: A Primer on Symbolization and Design
Area Cartograms: Their Use and Creation
ColorBrewer.org: An Online Tool for Selecting Colour Schemes for Maps
Maps, Mapping, Modernity: Art and Cartography in the Twentieth Century
Affective Geovisualisations
Egocentric Design of Map-Based Mobile Services
The Geographic Beauty of a Photographic Archive
Cognition and Cultures of Mapping
Introductory Essay: Cognition and Cultures of Mapping
Map Makers are Human: Comments on the Subjective in Maps
Cognitive Maps and Spatial Behaviour: Process and Products
Natural Mapping
The Map as Biography: Thoughts on Ordnance Survey Map, Six-Inch Sheet Devonshire CIX, SE, Newton Abbot
Reading Maps
Mapping Reeds and Reading Maps: The Politics of Representation in Lake Titicaca
Refiguring Geography: Parish Maps of Common Ground
Understanding and Learning Maps
Citizens as Sensors: The World of Volunteered Geography
Usability Evaluation of Web Mapping Sites
Power and Politics of Mapping
Introductory Essay: Power and Politics of Mapping
The Time and Space of the Enlightenment Project, from The Condition of Postmodernity
Texts, Hermeneutics and Propaganda Maps
Mapping: A New Technology of Space; Geo-Body, from Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-Body of a Nation
First Principles of a Literary Cartography, from Territorial Disputes: Maps and Mapping Strategies in Contemporary Canadian and Australian Fiction
Whose Woods are These? Counter-Mapping Forest Territories in Kalimantan, Indonesia
A Map that Roared and an Original Atlas: Canada, Cartography, and the Narration of Nation
Cartographic Rationality and the Politics of Geosurveillance and Security
Affecting Geospatial Technologies: Toward a Feminist Politics of Emotion
Queering the Map: The Productive Tensions of Colliding Epistemologies
Mapping the Digital Empire: Google Earth and the Process of Postmodern Cartography
