Mapping Crampton, Jeremy W
2011, 2010, Letnik:
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Mapping: A Critical Introduction to Cartography and GIS is an introduction to the critical issues surrounding mapping and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) across a wide range of disciplines for ...the non-specialist reader. * Examines the key influences Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and cartography have on the study of geography and other related disciplines * Represents the first in-depth summary of the "new cartography" that has appeared since the early 1990s * Provides an explanation of what this new critical cartography is, why it is important, and how it is relevant to a broad, interdisciplinary set of readers * Presents theoretical discussion supplemented with real-world case studies * Brings together both a technical understanding of GIS and mapping as well as sensitivity to the importance of theory
This article presents a consideration of W.G. Sebald's 2001 work Austerlitz-his final novel-according to a variety of spatial and cartographic concepts, including 'fluid cartography,' and the notion ...of countermapping. Particularly, the article will explore the eponymous protagonist's sense that 'time does not exist at all, only various spaces interlocking according to the rules of a higher form of stereometry,' and will demonstrate how this subjective experience of time is a consequence of the absence of memory experienced by the protagonist in relation to his origins as a Kindertransport survivor of the Holocaust. Similarly, the article will explore how spaces-particularly buildings-and material artefacts come to act as an (insufficient) surrogate for memory within the text. All of the above will be framed according to a reading of the fundamental spatiality of Sebald's works, and particularly their map-like quality.
Kurzfassung Both qualitative research in geography and visual geographies have an ambivalent relationship to maps and cartographic methods. Reasons for this include discourse-theoretical approaches ...to maps and cartography since the 1980s, the tension between the self-images of modern cartography and the methodological perspectives of qualitative approaches, the relationship between map and image, or the role of technology in cartography and GIS. On the one hand, this ambivalent relationship can be well explained historically. On the other hand, a number of possible connections can be pointed out. Based on current discussions in geography and beyond, the article therefore explores and systematizes practices of critical mapping in order to explore new possibilities of connection between visual approaches of qualitative geographies and maps.
31. konferenca Mednarodnega kartografskega združenja (ICA/ACI, uradno International Cartographic Association /Association Cartographique Internationale') je potěkala od 13. do 18. avgusta v mestu ...Cape Town v Južni Afriki. Iz Slovenije sva se dogodka udeležila Primož Kete z Geodetskega instituta Slovenije ter doc. dr. Dušan Petrovič s Fakultete za gradbeništvo in geodezijo UL, slovensko zastopstvo pa je dopolnil še kolega dr. Bojan Savrič, ki je sicer zaposlen pri ameriškem podjetju ESRI. Tokrat so bili prisotni predstavnik! več kot polovice afriških držav, kar je velik dosežek za organizatorje in tudi velik korak v razvoju in širjenju znanja kartografije in geoinformatike v Afriki. Ce smo pred dvema desetletjema zaradi velikega varnostnega tveganja za prosto gibanje po mestu Durban večinoma doživljali eno najbolj neposrečenih mednarodnih konferenc, je bilo letošnje ozračje mnogo boljše. Że res, da tudi na ulicah Cape Towna najdemo številne brezdomce in berače, kar je posledica izredno visoke brezposelnosti v državi - tapresega40 %, med mladimi pa celo 70 % - aje šestmilijonsko mesto, vsaj njegovo ožje središče, sicer presenetljivo urejeno, čisto in tudi dovolj varno za prosto gibanje. S tem je razstava izgubila nekaj čara, res pa je bila in je širší javnosti še dostopna na spletni strani https://icc2023.org/index.php/international-map-exhibition/. Tudi te slike so še vedno na voljo za ogled za ogled na spletnih straneh konference. Sprejeli smo kar nekaj sprememb in dopolnitev statuta, poleg sprejetja poročil in obravnave programov dela za naslednje obdobje pa smo izvolili še novo vodstvo. Potrjene so bile komisije in delovne skupine, po osmih letih vodenja Komisije za planinsko kartografijo pa Slovenija za naslednje obdobje štirih let prevzema vodenje skupne Komisije za toponime ICA in Mednarodnega geografskega združenja IGU. Najvišje priznanje združenja - zlato medaljo Carla Mannerfelta - je za dolgoletno delo in prispevek к razvoju kartografije přejela, kot prva ženska, prof. dr. Cynthia Brewer iz ZDA, znana po svojem príspevku k oblikovanju kart, predvsem z uporabo barv.
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