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Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization -Volume 46, Number 1 /2011 is now available at http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/r441nh30552g/. This issue contains: A Cautionary Historiography of John Smith's New England Matthew H. Edney This essay reviews 150 years of commentary on John Smith's famous map of New England. This commentary encompasses several disciplines, as well as both academic and popular writing, but has been structurally consistent: each account of the map is brief and repeats a received wisdom that largely contradicts the small body of empirical evidence. The structure of the received wisdom is analysed to reveal the powerful web of beliefs and convictions that constitute the modern cartographic ideal. These beliefs feature some 11 myths of observation, evaluation, representation, individuality, progress, ontology, publicity, currency, morality, functionality (or instrumentality), and efficacy. Concerned only to evaluate the map image, historians have selectively interpreted the evidence to present Smith's map as an icon of discovery, exploration, cartography, intellectual dominance, and European civilization. The essay therefore constitutes a cautionary tale of the pitfalls that await the unwary and uncritical map scholar. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/82021558626w4l25/?p=aea6a972c77e4e4 fbc7d1c77bb16554c&pi=0 DOI: 10.3138/carto.46.1.1 Genealogy That Counts: Using Content Analysis to Explore the Evolution of Persuasive Cartography Ian Muehlenhaus Maps are often used for persuasive purposes. Yet little is known about whether or not different persuasive map producers use similar cartographic techniques or about how such techniques have evolved through time. This article explores the genealogy of persuasive map design by analyzing 256 such maps published since 1800. Quantitative content analysis is used to break down each map among 190 contextual, data, design, and layout variables. Cross-tabulations and descriptive statistics are used to test whether and how the characteristics of persuasive maps have changed over time and differ by type of producer. The results illustrate that although some persuasive techniques have changed over time and by producer, most techniques are recurring and used by all types of producers. The results imply that different techniques of persuasive cartography are largely timeless, regardless of producer or medium. It is also argued that content analysis may prove a useful method for other research in map genealogy. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/8080h78549822646/?p=aea6a972c77e4e4 fbc7d1c77bb16554c&pi=1 DOI: 10.3138/carto.46.1.28 On the Use of Spreadsheets such as Excel for Mapping Brendan Whyte While not specifically designed for cartographic purposes, Excel and other spreadsheet programs have been used in various ways to create maps, and offer the advantages of ubiquity and simplicity over specialized software. This article demonstrates the capability of Excel's scatter-plot graphing function to create maps by mapping a complicated section of the Germano-Belgian boundary using survey data taken from a boundary treaty atlas. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/13103500hv5q283l/?p=aea6a972c77e4e4 fbc7d1c77bb16554c&pi=2 DOI: 10.3138/carto.46.1.41 Reviews of Books & Atlases http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/h173h66m32500483/?p=aea6a972c77e4e4 fbc7d1c77bb16554c&pi=3 DOI: 10.3138/carto.46.1.51 _____ 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 button, automatic recognition of ISSN and DOI), advanced searching (citation text, publication, subjects, or content types), search results (summaries, dimensional navigation, abstracts, citation or tabular results, search within results, filter selected items), parent list navigation, publication metadata, TOC alerting, forward reference linking, and link exports. Cartographica 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. 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