Mapping Different Geographies

This book is the outcome of the work of contributors who participated in the wo- shop “Mapping Different Geographies (MDG)” in February 2010, held in Puchberg am Schneeberg, Austria. This meeting brought together cartographers, artists and geoscientists who research and practice in applications that...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Kriz, Karel (Editor), Cartwright, William (Editor), Hurni, Lorenz (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2010, 2010
Edition:1st ed. 2010
Series:Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Conceptual and Theoretical Principles of MDG
  • Mapping Other (Geographical) Realities
  • Mapping Practices for Different Geographies
  • Spatial Metaphors for Mapping Informal Geographies
  • Emotional Response to Space as an Additional Concept of Supporting Wayfinding in Ubiquitous Cartography
  • An Artistic Perspective for Affective Cartography
  • Mapping the Imagined
  • Structural and Methodological Issues of MDG
  • “Now and Then, Here and There … on Business”: Mapping Social/Trade Networks on First Global Age
  • Evolution of Digital Map Libraries towards Virtual Map Rooms: New Challenges for Historical Research
  • Information Architecture of the “Cultural History Information System of the Western Himalaya”
  • User-Centred Design of a Web-Based Cartographic Information System for Cultural History
  • GIS for Numismatics – Methods of Analyses in the Interpretation of Coin Finds
  • Use Cases and Examples of MDG
  • Le vie dello Swat1
  • DiFaB – A Databased Visual Archive of Byzantium and the Challenges of Indexing Historical Material Culture
  • Mapping Byzantium – The Project “Macedonia, Northern Part” in the Series Tabula Imperii Byzantini (TIB) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
  • The Mastery of Narratively Creating Mental Maps: Literary Cartography in Karl May’s Œuvre
  • Ghosts of the Past: Mapping the Colonial in Eleanor Dark’s Fiction