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Subject: Cartographica 44:4 2009 is now available
Just released! Cartographica
44:4, 2009
Cartographica Volume 44, Number 4 /2009 is now available at http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/qw2687t52862/.
This issue contains:
Kara C. Hoover
http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/h7u836961j43u749/?p=0309d5f46ca54bf2b371e79cb1ffd481&pi=0
Performative Atlases: Memory,
Materiality, and (Co-)Authorship
Veronica della Dora
Abstract: Maps have traditionally been
conceptualized as visual representations and studied for what they represent.
In the past few years, however, scholars from different disciplines have
started to approach them from new perspectives. Broadly speaking, art
historians have shown increased interest in their materialities, and
geographers and map historians in their social and performative aspects. This
article reviews and synthesizes these approaches using the example of the atlas
in its earliest and latest incarnations (Abraham Ortelius’ Theatrum Orbis
Terrarum and Google Earth). Atlases are conceptualized as mnemonic tools
activated through different types of personal encounters that are at once
visual and tactile. Focusing on performative encounters between atlases and
their users, the article calls for a re-conceptualization of maps as fluid objects
that are always in the making. It also invites a reading of the history of
cartography as a history of interactions and co-authorships between map-makers
and map users.
http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/a261850p1j5343q3/?p=0309d5f46ca54bf2b371e79cb1ffd481&pi=1
Candice R. Luebbering, Laurence W. Carstensen
Abstract: Despite technological advances,
digitizing is still used for digital data creation. Although users work with
large, high-resolution data sets, their workspace is often limited to a small,
one-monitor viewing window. A low-cost upgrade is to build a multiple-monitor
display. Multiple-monitor displays provide an increase in size and resolution,
allowing concurrent access to greater context and detail, which may be
particularly helpful for digitizing. To investigate the possible benefits of
digitizing on multiple-monitor displays, the authors asked 57 participants to
perform a map-reading test that included vector and raster target digitizing
tasks. Participants took the test on one of three displays: one, four, or nine
monitors. The testing program stored participants’ digitized shape files and
the viewing area used for digitizing. Although participants were more efficient
on the larger displays for other tasks, no statistically significant
differences were found for the vector or raster digitizing tasks among display
configurations, using goodness-of-fit and shape metrics to compare results.
However, larger displays still potentially offer benefits for digitizing.
Guideline provision and variability in image interpretation for vector and
raster digitizing, respectively, may have been prevailing factors.
Additionally, lack of motivation, along with the physical demands and
unfamiliarity of large displays, may have hindered the realization of potential
benefits.
http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/26432717h7458427/?p=0309d5f46ca54bf2b371e79cb1ffd481&pi=2
Mapping Natural Phenomena: Boreal
Forest Fires with Non-discrete Boundaries
Tarmo K. Remmel, Ajith H. Perera
Abstract: Forest fires are spatially and
temporally frequent in the boreal forest biome and continue to alter the
spatial mosaic of its forest cover. Some of these fires occur in remote
locations where direct socio-economic impacts are negligible, and are therefore
not suppressed. However, these natural fires have many ecological consequences,
and their monitoring and mapping therefore pose both an important and a
challenging task. The current state of the art for fire-event mapping in remote
northern Ontario is conducted at variable cartographic scales and generally
relies on recording the approximate perimeters of the burned area from
fixed-wing aircraft or helicopters with a handheld global positioning system
receiver. All such techniques treat forest-fire boundaries, regardless of their
detection and mapping resolutions or of the irregularity and gradient-like
characteristics of their burned/not-burned interface, as crisp lines. Here we
describe a procedure for standardizing the mapping of forest fires by an
approach using high-spatial-resolution IKONOS satellite imagery that considers
the actuality of gradual boundaries by assessing the fire-membership strength
of each pixel prior to developing a footprint describing an individual fire
event. Our case study is from northern Ontario, Canada, where the remote boreal
forest fires are not regularly suppressed or monitored/mapped using traditional
means. Furthermore, our analysis explores the sensitivity of this mapping
effort to spatial resolution when describing measures of fire-footprint spatial
geometry. We compare our mapping results with fire boundaries obtained by other
means, using a series of overlap statistics to assess their spatial
coincidence.
http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/j6l310p275748837/?p=0309d5f46ca54bf2b371e79cb1ffd481&pi=3
Online Map Design for Public-Health
Decision Makers
Jonathan Cinnamon, Claus Rinner, Michael D. Cusimano, et al.
Abstract: Injury places a heavy burden on
public-health resources that is not distributed evenly in space, making the
mapping of injury and its socio-demographic risk factors an effective tool for
prevention planning. In a survey of health-related interactive Web mapping
applications we found great variation with respect to content, cartography, and
technical aspects. Based on the survey results, input from a group of potential
end users, cartographic design principles, and data-set requirements, we
created a Web site with static, animated, and interactive injury maps. We
mapped injury rates and possible socio-demographic risk factors for the City of
Toronto. Through the three functionally different types of maps, a variety of
ways to explore the same public-health data sets could be demonstrated. The
results highlight the practical options available to public-health analysts and
decision makers who wish to expand their data-exploration and decision-support
tools with a spatial component.
http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/1g12623626746828/?p=0309d5f46ca54bf2b371e79cb1ffd481&pi=4
Self-Adjusting Legends for
Proportional Symbol Maps
Bernhard Jenny, Ernst Hutzler, Lorenz Hurni
http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/10h6qv2x48006708/?p=0309d5f46ca54bf2b371e79cb1ffd481&pi=5
http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/qg2m746p750nw346/?p=0309d5f46ca54bf2b371e79cb1ffd481&pi=6
Cartographica
Cartographica, the
international journal for geographic information and geovisualization, is now available
electronically and includes the complete back file of previously published
articles going back to 1964 with issue 1.1, when Cartographica was known
as The Cartographer.
In
addition to the substantial back file and current issues, Cartographica
Online is a fully searchable electronic resource which addresses all your
research needs - full searching (full text, Boolean, relevancy ranking,
and persistent keyword searching), quick searching (single field, single
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Cartographica is the international
journal for geographic information and geovisualization. The journal is
dedicated to publishing articles on all aspects of cartographic and geovisualization
research while maintaining its tradition of publishing material on cartographic
thought, the history of cartography, and cartography and society. Cartographica,
edited by Jeremy Crampton, delivers in-depth research and writing covering a wide
range of cartographic studies, including the production, design, use, and
cognitive understanding of maps, the history of maps, and geographic
information systems.
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