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  5. Geovisualization

Cartography/History of Cartography

This research guide will help you find books, print journals and other resources about Cartography. Cartography studies the history of maps and mapmaking and interpretation of maps.
  • Introduction
  • Understanding maps
  • Finding books
  • Finding journals & magazines
  • More cartographic resources
  • History of cartography
    • United States
    • South America
  • Projections
  • Geovisualization
  • Art & cartography
  • History through maps
  • Societies, etc.
  • Digital mapping
  • Animated maps
  • Map humor
  • Web mapping This link opens in a new window
  • Google Earth & Maps
  • Map Mashups
  • Citing cartographic information
  • Geographic Information Systems This link opens in a new window
  • Maps & Atlases This link opens in a new window
  • Scholarly communication This link opens in a new window

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Relevant articles

  • Issue cover artThe cartographic journal by Mary Spence MCB
    • On Campus or VPN
    Call Number: Electronic journal article
    This article talks about the "Better Mapping Campaign" from The British Cartographic Society. Mary Spence is one of the authors of Cartography: An Introduction.
  • Issue cover artSpatial ecology from IJGIS
    • On Campus or VPN
    Call Number: Electronic journal
    Special issue on Geo-visualization from the International Journal of Geographic Information Science. (2014, v. 28, 10)

Internet resource(s)

  • Cartography Guide from Axis Maps
    • Link
    Their goal is to cover important concepts in cartography and flag the important decision points in the map-making process. There isn't always a single best answer in cartography, and in those cases they've tried to outline some of the pros and cons to different solutions. ...
  • ColorBrewer 2.0: Color Advice for Maps
    • Link
    This site helps you figure out what color scheme best illustrates your data.
  • EagerEyes
    • Link
    EagerEyes is Robert Kosara's place to reflect on the world of information visualization and visual communication of data. The goal is to help digest things that are happening in the field and discuss developments that may be tangential or early, but that are likely to have an impact.
  • Geovisualization for Knowledge Construction and Decision Support from the NIH
    • Link
    Geovisualization is both a process for leveraging these data resources to meet scientific and societal needs and a research field that develops visual methods and tools to support a wide array of geospatial data applications.
  • Esri logo
    Maps We Love from ESRI
    • Link
    A site of maps that can instruct and inspire you to create better maps.
  • Scimaps logo
    Places & Spaces
    • Link
    Drawing from across cultures and across scholarly disciplines, Places & Spaces: Mapping Science demonstrates the power of maps to address vital questions about the contours and content of human knowledge. ...

Introduction

Geovisualization is the science and art of visualizing and interpreting spatial information.  Students will learn the principles and methods of visual analysis of geographic data, using geospatial tools for visual communication and visual thinking.  Beginning with the traditional principles of cartography, the course will then cover advanced topics such as flows and networks, 3D landscapes and spaces, animation, and interactive web-based geovisualization.  Class time will be divided between discussion of principles and practices, and hands-on laboratory activities.

[Source: Registrar, 12/24/2016]  DISTR: SLA

In the Library's collection

These are search terms you can use in the online catalog.

  • cartography AND visualization
    This is a keyword search.
  • geovisualization
    This is a keyword search.
  • visualization
    A more general subject search.
  • brewer, cynthia
    This is an author search.

Introductory reading(s)

  • Cover artCartographic communication: graphic semiology, semiotics and geovisualization by Boris Mericskay, ed.
    • On Campus or VPN
    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9781789450910
    Cartographic Communication explores the role of maps as a means of communication, focusing on graphic semiology and semiotics. The book examines the various functions of cartographers, from craftsmen to political agents, and discusses how maps serve as tools in scientific processes and political discourse. It also addresses the challenges of reproducibility and the innovations in cartographic communication models, emphasizing the importance of aesthetics and user interaction. ...
  • Cover artCartographic relief presentation by Eduard Imhof
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry GA 125 .I4513 2007
    ISBN: 9781589480261
    Publication Date: 1st ed.
    Eduard Imhof's classic book Cartographic Relief Presentation is once again available. Within the discipline of cartography, few works are considered classics in the sense of retaining their interest, relevance, and inspiration with the passage of time. One such work is Imhof's masterpiece on relief representation. As a unique display of analysis and portrayal, this is an outstanding example of the need for cartography to combine intellect and graphics in solving map design problems. The range, detail, and scientific artistry of his solutions are presented in a teaching context that puts this work in a class by itself, with universal significance.
  • Cover artDesigning better maps: a guide for GIS users by Cynthia Brewer
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry GA 105.3 .B74 2016
    ISBN: 9781589484405
    Publication Date: 2nd ed.
    Designing Better Maps: A Guide for GIS Users is a comprehensive guide to creating maps that communicate effectively.
  • Cover artEncyclopedia of geographic information science by Karen Kemp, ed.
    • On Campus or VPN
    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9781412913133
    Geographic information science (GIS) is an emerging field that combines aspects of many different disciplines. As a result, GIS literature is spread widely across the academic spectrum and the vocabulary is an amalgam of all of these fields. Often, given the specialized disciplinary orientations of authors, some expectation of foundational knowledge is assumed in much of the literature, making it difficult for readers from different disciplines to understand the full context of what they are reading. The Encyclopedia of Geographical Information Science provides a condensed but rich resource about themes broadly across the field. It also provides details about the key foundations of GIS, no matter what their disciplinary origins, and is, therefore, an important resource for both academic and corporate libraries. ...
  • Cover artGeographic visualization: concepts, tools and applications by Martin Dodge; Mary McDerby; Martin Turner, eds.
    • On Campus or VPN
    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9780470515112
    Geographic Visualization: Concepts, Tools and Applications is a 'state-of-the-art' review of the latest developments in the subject. It examines how new concepts, methods and tools can be creatively applied to solve problems relevant to a wide range of topics. ...
  • Cover artThe geospatial web: how geobrowsers, social software and the Web 2.0 are shaping the network society by Arno Scharl; Klaus Tochtermann, eds.
    • On Campus or VPN
    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9781846288265
    This volume emphasizes the applications and implications of the Geospatial Web and the role of contextual knowledge in shaping the emerging network society. There is a clear focus on applied geospatial aspects. The book has contributions from a very active research community. Containing chapters from renowned researchers and practitioners, this volume will be invaluable to all interested in this field.
  • Cover artThematic cartography and geovisualization by Terry A. Slocum; Robert Brainerd McMaster; Fritz Kessler; Hugh. H Howard
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry GA 108.7 .S58 2023
    ISBN: 9780367713706
    Publication Date: 4th ed.
    Given the extensive developments that have taken place in cartography and GIS in the last decade, the fourth edition of a well-established book in cartography explores the continued evolution of the Internet and Web 2.0. A new chapter on Geovisual Analytics captures the analysis and visualization of Big Data, while a new chapter on Cartography, Technology, and Society reviews the critical and ethical issues involved with collecting, using, and storing digital data; the importance of participatory cartography; and web-based geospatial data sources. Thoroughly revised, this book equips educators and benefit students with the most valuable up-to-date learning resource available in the cartographic field.
  • Visualization in modern cartography by Alan M. MacEachren; Fraser Taylor, eds.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry GA 108.7 .V58 1994
    ISBN: 9780080424163
    Visualization in Modern Cartography explores links between the centuries-old discipline of cartography and today's revolutionary developments in scientific visualization. The book has three main goals: (1) to pass on design and symbolization expertise to the scientific visualization community - information that comes from centuries of pre-computer visualization by cartographers, and their more recent experiences with computerizing the discipline; (2) to help cartographers cope with the dramatic shift from print cartography to a dynamic virtual cartography for which their role is changing from that of map designer to one of spatial information display (and/or interface) designer; (3) to illustrate the expanded role for cartography in geographic, environmental, planning, and earth science applications that comes with the development of interactive geographic visualization tools.

Selected book title(s)

  • Issue cover artAtlas of design by NACIS
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry GA 101 .A85 v.1 -
    The Atlas of Design is dedicated to showing off some of the world’s most beautiful and intriguing cartographic design.
  • Cover artCartography: an introduction by Giles Darkes and Mary Spence
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry GA 105.3 .D37 2017
    ISBN: 9780904482256
    Publication Date: 2nd ed.
    This book is part of the British Cartographic Society's "Better Mapping Campaign." It show what works well in map design and to help people who map how they communicate with their viewers.
  • Cartography design annual by Nick Springer
    • Book
    Call Number: Evans Map Room GA 101 .C374 no.1 2008
    Selected maps from around the world intended to illustrate the beauty of mapping.
  • Cover ArtEnvisioning information by Edward R. Tufte
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry P 93.5 .T83 1990
    ISBN: 9780961392116
    This book celebrates escapes from the flatlands of both paper and computer screen, showing superb displays of high-dimensional complex data. The most design-oriented of Edward Tufte's books, Envisioning Information shows maps, charts, scientific presentations, diagrams, computer interfaces, statistical graphics and tables, stereo photographs, guidebooks, courtroom exhibits, timetables, use of color, a pop-up, and many other wonderful displays of information. The book provides practical advice about how to explain complex material by visual means, with extraordinary examples to illustrate the fundamental principles of information displays. ...
  • Cover artMaking maps: a visual guide to map design for GIS by John Krygier; Denis Wood
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry GA 105.3 .K79 2016
    ISBN: 9781462509980
    Publication Date: 3rd ed.
    Lauded for its accessibility and beautiful design, this text has given thousands of students and professionals the tools to create effective, compelling maps. Using a wealth of illustrations--with 74 in full color--to elucidate each concisely presented point, the revised and updated third edition continues to emphasize how design choices relate to the reasons for making a map and its intended purpose. All components of map making are covered: titles, labels, legends, visual hierarchy, font selection, how to turn phenomena into visual data, data organization, symbolization, and more. ...
  • Cover artVirtual geographic environments by Hui Lin; Michael Batty, eds.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry G 70.212 .V57 2012
    ISBN: 9781589483187
    Virtual Geographic Environments collects key papers that define the current momentum in GIS and "virtual geographies." Contributions by leading members of the geospatial community to Virtual Geographic Environments illustrate the cutting edge of GIScience, as well as new applications of GIS with the processing and delivery of geographic information through the Web and handheld devices, forming two major directions to these developments. ...

Finding journal article literature

You can find published literature on geovisualization in many publications. You can use a specific, subject index such as GeoRef to find articles. Listed below are a couple of relevant journals. You can also use the search box at the top of the page.

  • Issue cover artCartographica: the international journal for geographic information and geovisualization by Canadian Cartographic Association
    • On Campus or VPN
    Call Number: Electronic journal
    Cartographica delivers cutting-edge international research in all aspects of cartography (including the production, design, use, cognitive understanding, and history of maps), geovisualization, and GIScience. ...
  • Resource logoGeoRef by Elsevier
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    This index covers all areas of the Earth Sciences. It also covers a wide range of Physical Geography too.
  • Resource logoThe web of science citation databases by ISI (Institute for Scientific Information)
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    The online version of 3 separate ISI indexes: Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index and, Social Sciences Citation Index.

Keeping up with the journal literature

Want an easy way to keep up with the journal literature for Cartography or GIS? And do you use a mobile device? You can install the BrowZine app and create a custom Bookshelf of your favorite journal titles. Then you will get the Table of Contents (ToCs) of your favorite journals automatically delivered to you when they become available. Once you have the ToC's you can download and read the articles you want.

You can get the app from the App Store or Google Play.

Don't own or use a mobile device? You can still use BrowZine! It's now 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.

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