Connections and Content: Reflections on Networks and the History of Cartography

by Mark Monmonier

Overview

Behind every great map is a network and behind every great network is a map.

In Connections and Content: Reflections on Networks and the History of Cartography, cartographic cogitator Mark Monmonier shares his insights about the relationships between networks and maps. Using historical maps, he explores:

• Triangulation networks that established the baselines to set a map’s scale
• Astronomical observations, ellipsoids, geodetic arcs, telegraph networks, and GPS constellations that put latitude and longitude on the map
• Cartographic symbols that portray a diverse range of network features
• Survey networks used to situate and construct canals, railways, roads, and power lines
• Postal and electronic networks that created and disseminated weather maps, and
• Topological networks that underlie modern census enumeration and satellite navigation systems.

Connecting the past to the present via maps and reflection, Monmonier continues his contribution to cartographic scholarship by exploring the network's power as a unifying concept for understanding and using maps. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781589485600
Publisher:	Esri Press
Publication date:	08/02/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	250
File size:	13 MB
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About the Author

Mark Monmonier is Distinguished Professor of Geography at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. He is the author of twenty books, including How to Lie with Maps, and was editor of Cartography in the Twentieth Century, the million-word encyclopedia published as volume 6 in the History of Cartography series. His awards include the American Geographical Society’s O. M. Miller Medal (2001), the German Cartographic Society’s Mercator Medal (2009), and induction into URISA’s (Urban and Regional Information Systems Association) GIS Hall of Fame (2016).

Table of Contents

Preface

1   Baselines

2   Geometry

 3   Symbols

 4   Infrastructure

 5   Telecommunications

 6   Topology

 7   Control

List of Acronyms

Index

Editorial Reviews

"If one is interested in the evolution of cartography and the geospatial sciences, Connections and Content: Reflections on Networks and the History of Cartography is an ideal place to begin. Mark Monmonier has spent a lifetime studying maps, the systems and technologies for making them, and the social, economic and defence purposes for producing them. As such he has valuable insights concerning the history, present use and potential future use of cartographical products. In this work he provides many of these insights within a framework of myriad details and pertinent graphics and illustrations."

—Albert Theberge, Imago Mundi, Vol. 72

Imago Mundi

"As geospatial technologies diffuse through society, accessible works should be available to interested citizens. This is one: it links familiar aspects of the world with their depiction on maps in a compelling way and provides insights into the mapmaker’s art."

—Stewart Walker, Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, Vol. 86

Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing