Atlas of the World with Geophysical Boundaries

Atlas of the World with Geophysical Boundaries
Title Atlas of the World with Geophysical Boundaries PDF eBook
Author Athelstan Spilhaus
Publisher American Philosophical Society
Pages 116
Release 1991
Genre Reference
ISBN 9780871691965

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"To show the world ocean, insofar as possible, uninterrupted by the edge of the map"--P. 1.

Maps and Politics

Maps and Politics
Title Maps and Politics PDF eBook
Author Jeremy Black
Publisher Reaktion Books
Pages 190
Release 2000-09-01
Genre History
ISBN 1861898371

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?We all rely on the apparent accuracy and objectivity of maps, but often do not see the very process of mapping as political. Are the power and purpose of maps inherently political? Maps and Politics addresses this important question and seeks to emphasize that the apparent ‘objectivity’ of the map-making and map-using process cannot be divorced from aspects of the politics of representation. Maps have played, and continue to play, a major role in both international and domestic politics. They show how visual geographical representations can be made to reflect and advance political agendas in powerful ways. The major developments in this field over the last century are responses both to cartographic progression and to a greater emphasis on graphic imagery in societies affected by politicization, democratization, and consumer and cultural shifts. Jeremy Black asks whether bias-free cartography is possible and demonstrates that maps are not straightforward visual texts, but contain political and politicizing subtexts that need to be read with care.

Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 137, No. 2, 1993)

Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 137, No. 2, 1993)
Title Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 137, No. 2, 1993) PDF eBook
Author
Publisher American Philosophical Society
Pages 154
Release
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ISBN 9781422370179

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Constant-Scale Natural Boundary Mapping to Reveal Global and Cosmic Processes

Constant-Scale Natural Boundary Mapping to Reveal Global and Cosmic Processes
Title Constant-Scale Natural Boundary Mapping to Reveal Global and Cosmic Processes PDF eBook
Author Pamela Elizabeth Clark
Publisher Springer Science & Business Media
Pages 122
Release 2013-09-06
Genre Science
ISBN 146147762X

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Whereas conventional maps can be expressed as outward-expanding formulae with well-defined central features and relatively poorly defined edges, Constant Scale Natural Boundary (CSNB) maps have well-defined boundaries that result from natural processes and thus allow spatial and dynamic relationships to be observed in a new way useful to understanding these processes. CSNB mapping presents a new approach to visualization that produces maps markedly different from those produced by conventional cartographic methods. In this approach, any body can be represented by a 3D coordinate system. For a regular body, with its surface relatively smooth on the scale of its size, locations of features can be represented by definite geographic grid (latitude and longitude) and elevation, or deviation from the triaxial ellipsoid defined surface. A continuous surface on this body can be segmented, its distinctive regional terranes enclosed, and their inter-relationships defined, by using selected morphologically identifiable relief features (e.g., continental divides, plate boundaries, river or current systems). In this way, regions of distinction on a large, essentially spherical body can be mapped as two-dimensional ‘facets’ with their boundaries representing regional to global-scale asymmetries (e.g., continental crust, continental and oceanic crust on the Earth, farside original thicker crust and nearside thinner impact punctuated crust on the Moon). In an analogous manner, an irregular object such as an asteroid, with a surface that is rough on the scale of its size, would be logically segmented along edges of its impact-generated faces. Bounded faces are imagined with hinges at occasional points along boundaries, resulting in a foldable ‘shape model.’ Thus, bounded faces grow organically out of the most compelling natural features. Obvious boundaries control the map’s extremities, and peripheral regions are not dismembered or grossly distorted as in conventional map projections. 2D maps and 3D models grow out of an object’s most obvious face or terrane ‘edges,’ instead of arbitrarily by imposing a regular grid system or using regularly shaped facets to represent an irregular surface.

National Geographic Concise Atlas of the World

National Geographic Concise Atlas of the World
Title National Geographic Concise Atlas of the World PDF eBook
Author
Publisher National Geographic Books
Pages 164
Release 2008
Genre Reference
ISBN 9781426201967

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Gathers political, social, and physical maps of the United States and the rest of the world.

Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 144, no. 3, 2000)

Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 144, no. 3, 2000)
Title Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 144, no. 3, 2000) PDF eBook
Author
Publisher American Philosophical Society
Pages 122
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ISBN 9781422372739

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World Mapping Today

World Mapping Today
Title World Mapping Today PDF eBook
Author Bob Parry
Publisher Walter de Gruyter
Pages 1080
Release 2011-12-22
Genre Science
ISBN 3110959445

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