Internet resource(s)
- Shaded ReliefThe goal of this site is to assist practicing cartographers with the presentation of shaded relief and related raster art on maps.
A short definition
Digital mapping (also called digital cartography) is the process by which a collection of data is compiled and formatted into a virtual image. The primary function of this technology is to produce maps that give accurate representations of a particular area, detailing major road arteries and other points of interest. The technology also allows the calculation of distances from one place to another.
[Source: Wikipedia, 10/15/2020]
In the Library's Collection
The library's collection contains several books and journal titles which look at online or digital mapping. The resources are scattered throughout the collections under different call numbers. However, one call number range, G 70.212, is a good starting place to physically browse.
- "web mapping"This is a keyword search for the phrase "web mapping."
Selected book titles
Charting the unknown: how computer mapping at Harvard became GIS by Call Number: Baker-Berry G 70.212 .C47385 2006 textISBN: 9781589481183
Else/where: mapping new cartographies of networks and territories by Call Number: Baker-Berry GA 139 .E48 2006ISBN: 9780972969628Else/where Mapping charts the ascendancy of mapping as a powerful interdisciplinary strategy, one that links people and places, data and organizations, and physical and virtual environments. Traditionally written by history's victors, maps are gaining new currency in our information-saturated age as a means of making arguments and processes visible. Mapping technologies today are as diverse as the agendas driving them: social networks are mapped with dynamic digital interfaces; buildings are mapped with lasers; cities and regions are mapped by satellite. ...
Mapping: an illustrated guide to graphic navigational systems by Call Number: Baker-Berry GA 139 .M47 2002ISBN: 9782880467074Focusing on information design, this guide reveals the visual language of location, direction, spatial and structural relationships which are central to this sector of graphics, exploring maps as varied as subway systems and websites to chemical symbols, and the mapping of time.
The mobile mapping: space, cartography and digital by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9789462984530This book presents the first in-depth discussion of how specific geographical and historical conditions shape the way in which mobile phone maps are read, deployed, and engaged with in daily life. Using a framework of mobile mapping, this concise study offers a radical analysis of the way local spatial and navigational practices are bound to global systems of knowledge and power. It argues that contemporary mobile mapping is imbued with multiple knowledges, pasts, spaces, and experiences, bringing to the fore complicated and tense relationships within cartographic and spatial assemblages. ...
Making your own maps!
- BatchGeoThis site allows you to convert a list of addresses into points on a map. If you have a spreadsheet of addresses, this site will convert them to points and you can then map those points.
- DistrictBuilder
DistrictBuilder lets you create fair electoral maps that are more representative of your community. - Mapping for EveryoneA site from ESRI, makers of ArcGIS, which allows you to map a limited range of variables and inbed those maps into web pages.
- Social Explorer
This resource lets you visualize historical and current census data. Social Explorer also includes data for crime, health, religion, censuses for Canada and the United Kingdom and development indicators.
To take full advantage of Social Explorer, you must create an account within the resource.
Keeping up with Cartography/GIS journal literature
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Don't own or use a mobile device? You can still use BrowZine! It's also available in a web version. You can get to it here. The web version works the same way as the app version. Find the journals you like, create a custom Bookshelf, get ToCs and read the articles you want.