After the Map - Cartography, Navigation, and the Transformation of Territory in the Twentieth Century Rankin WilliamPaperback / softback
After the Map - Cartography, Navigation, and the Transformation of Territory in the Twentieth Century Rankin WilliamPaperback / softback For most of the twentieth century, maps were indispensable.…
Specifikacia After the Map - Cartography, Navigation, and the Transformation of Territory in the Twentieth Century Rankin WilliamPaperback / softback
After the Map - Cartography, Navigation, and the Transformation of Territory in the Twentieth Century Rankin WilliamPaperback / softback
For most of the twentieth century, maps were indispensable. Cartographers and journalists predicted the dawning of a "map-minded age," where increasingly state-of-the-art maps would become everyday tools. They were how governments understood, managed, and defended their territory, and during the two world wars they were produced by the hundreds of millions.
Likewise, older concerns with geographic truth and objectivity have been By the century's end, however, there had been decisive shift in mapping practices, as the dominant methods of land surveying and print publication were increasingly displaced by electronic navigation systems.In After the Map, William Rankin argues that although this shift did not render traditional maps obsolete, it did radically change our experience of geographic knowledge, from the God's-eye view of the map to the embedded subjectivity of GPS.
Map and the Territory
The Map and the Territory