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How Maps Work

Representation, Visualization, and Design

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-0-89862-589-9
Verlag: Guilford Publications
Erscheinungstermin: 09.06.1995
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This book is the first systematic integration of cognitive and semiotic approaches to understanding maps as powerful, abstract, and synthetic spatial representations. Presenting a perspective built on four decades of cartographic research, it explores how maps work at multiple levels--from the cognitive to the societal--and provides a cohesive picture of how the many representational choices inherent in mapping interact with the processing of information and construction of knowledge. «MDUL»«MDNM»Utilizing this complex perspective, the author shows how the insights derived from a better understanding of maps can be used in future map design. Although computers now provide the graphic tools to produce maps of similar or better quality than previous manual techniques, they seldom incorporate the conceptual tools needed to make informed symbolization and design decisions. The search for these conceptual tools is the basis for «MDUL»How Maps Work«MDNM».


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9780898625899
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-0-89862-589-9
  • Verlag: Guilford Publications
  • Erscheinungstermin: 09.06.1995
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage 1995
  • Produktform: Gebunden
  • Gewicht: 1057 g
  • Seiten: 513
  • Format (B x H x T): 158 x 234 x 35 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
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Contents
1. Taking a Scientfic Approach to Improving Map Representation and Design
I. How Meaning Is Derived from Maps
2. An Information-Processing View of Vision and Visual Cognition
3. How Maps Are Seen
4. How Maps Are Understood:

Visual Array

Visual Description
Knowledge Schemata
Cognitive Representation
II. How Maps Are Imbued with Meaning
5. A Primer on Semiotics for Understanding Map Representation
6. A Functional Approach to Map Representation: The Semantics and Syntactics of Map Signs
7. A Lexical Approach to Map Representation: Map Pragmatics
III. How Maps Are Used: Applications in Geographic Thinking
8. GVIS: Facilitating Visual Thinking
9. GVIS: Relationships in Space and Time
10. GVIS: Should We Believe What We See?
Postscript