This article describes a map I made based on a trip to Western Australia I took with my wife in 2014. The map is sculptural, constructed using a combination of wood, metal, and semi-precious gemstones. For the base of the map, I used a 44.5 × 40.5 in (113 × 103 cm) piece of quarter-sawn white oak veneer plywood. Guided by a 1-inch (2.54 cm) grid system, I drilled 773 holes of four different diameters to show the land area and general shape of the continent. I chose two different gauges of copper wire to represent driving and train routes. Amethyst stones represent alkaline saline lakes that Holly—an extremophile microbiologist—sampled for resident microbiota. For the one acidic saline lake she sampled (pH 3.5), I used rose quartz instead of amethyst. I highlighted the stromatolites we observed at Shark Bay (Western Australia) with a green diopside mineral. Finally, anywhere we stayed of note is represented with one (or more) red map pins. The final product is 44.5 × 40.5 in (113 × 103 cm) at a scale of 1:4,118,400 (1 in = 65 mi; 1 cm = 41.2 km).
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The article examines literature’s multifaceted engagement with maps, focusing on twenty-first century Anglophone fiction. Within the framework of multimodality, collective map-based works such as Where You Are and novels such as Bats of the Republic highlight the uncharted potential maps hold for contemporary writing as well as bring to the fore significant, but undertheorized intersections between cartography and literature. Offering a reconsideration of existing taxonomies in light of the rise of multimodal literary texts, the article invites interdisciplinary perspectives that can shed light on the diverse engagements with maps in current and future literary works.
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This paper responds to Mark Denil’s recent exposition in this journal of a conceptual theory of map. Denil advances a universalist position, that there exists an essential character of mapness that characterizes all maps. A key element of Denil’s essay is the dismissal of a strawman anti-universalism. This paper reasserts an anti-universalist understanding of maps and cartography to reveal the flaws in Denil’s essay.
{"title":"Making Explicit the Implicit, Idealized Understanding of “Map” and “Cartography”","authors":"M. Edney","doi":"10.14714/cp98.1765","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14714/cp98.1765","url":null,"abstract":"This paper responds to Mark Denil’s recent exposition in this journal of a conceptual theory of map. Denil advances a universalist position, that there exists an essential character of mapness that characterizes all maps. A key element of Denil’s essay is the dismissal of a strawman anti-universalism. This paper reasserts an anti-universalist understanding of maps and cartography to reveal the flaws in Denil’s essay.","PeriodicalId":35716,"journal":{"name":"Cartographic Perspectives","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43779734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Women And GIS: Mapping Their Stories","authors":"R. Ramsey","doi":"10.14714/cp99.1785","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14714/cp99.1785","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35716,"journal":{"name":"Cartographic Perspectives","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42186156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zihan Song, R. Roth, Lily Houtman, Timothy J. Prestby, A. Iverson, Song Gao
Visual storytelling describes the communication of stories through illustrations, graphics, imagery, and video instead of, or in addition to, oral, written, and audio formats. Compared to their popularity and wide reach, empirical research on map-based visual stories remains limited. We work towards infilling this gap through an empirical study on data journalism, providing the first assessment of four emerging design considerations for visual storytelling with maps: story map themes and their constituent narrative elements, visual storytelling genres, visual storytelling tropes, and individual audience differences. Specifically, we recruited 125 participants to an online map study, requiring them to separately review two visual stories and respond to a series of free-response and Likert scale questions regarding their retention, comprehension, and reaction. We followed a 2×2×2 factorial design for the visual stories, varying their themes (US presidential campaign donations, US coastal sea-level rise), genres (longform infographic, dynamic slideshow), and tropes (color highlighting, leader lines), while holding other design dimensions constant. The story theme did not influence the participants’ total retention or comprehension, indicating that a three-act narrative and its constituent elements can be applied consistently and effectively across variable kinds of topics. Instead, genres and, to a weaker degree, tropes influenced total participant retention, pointing to the importance of intentional design in map-based visual storytelling. Participants overall performed better when the visual storytelling designs used longform infographics or “scrollytelling” (genres) to structure content and leader lines (tropes) to visually accent information. In contrast, the story theme influenced audience reaction, with participants feeling significantly more concerned about and upset with the US presidential campaign donations story compared to the US sea-level rise story. Individual audience differences by expertise, motivation, and prior beliefs also influenced participant reaction. Our study signals a need for establishing a research and education agenda on map-based visual storytelling in both cartography and data journalism.
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{"title":"Review of Thematic Mapping: 101 Inspiring Ways to Visualize Empirical Data by Kenneth Field","authors":"Daniel Cole","doi":"10.14714/cp99.1326","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14714/cp99.1326","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35716,"journal":{"name":"Cartographic Perspectives","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45768760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
I present a study of the hand-painted winter panoramas of Atelier Novat, a workshop founded by Pierre Novat (1928–2007) in the 1960s, whose style was perpetuated by his children Arthur and Frédérique. I offer a portrait of Pierre Novat and a brief historical overview of the workshop. The contribution of the paper is to describe the style of Novat through the analysis of its constituent elements: creation process, color palette, terrain deformation, light effects, and surface texture (trees, rocks, roads, and buildings). Creating an ideal yet personal representation of a mountain has a dual purpose: a practical one, to help the viewer understand the topography of the region, and an aesthetic one, to depict an imaginary mountain, now iconic of the French Alps, that encourages dreams. The paper concludes with a review of existing methods, in cartography and computer graphics, for the creation of digital panoramas.
{"title":"A Stylistic Study of the Hand-Painted Winter Panorama Maps of Pierre Novat","authors":"Nolan Mestres","doi":"10.14714/cp100.1753","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14714/cp100.1753","url":null,"abstract":"I present a study of the hand-painted winter panoramas of Atelier Novat, a workshop founded by Pierre Novat (1928–2007) in the 1960s, whose style was perpetuated by his children Arthur and Frédérique. I offer a portrait of Pierre Novat and a brief historical overview of the workshop. The contribution of the paper is to describe the style of Novat through the analysis of its constituent elements: creation process, color palette, terrain deformation, light effects, and surface texture (trees, rocks, roads, and buildings). Creating an ideal yet personal representation of a mountain has a dual purpose: a practical one, to help the viewer understand the topography of the region, and an aesthetic one, to depict an imaginary mountain, now iconic of the French Alps, that encourages dreams. The paper concludes with a review of existing methods, in cartography and computer graphics, for the creation of digital panoramas.","PeriodicalId":35716,"journal":{"name":"Cartographic Perspectives","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45039295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Terrain maps are often composed of shaded relief along with other raster layers which we call thematic terrain layers to create aesthetically pleasing and clear maps of physical geography. Despite that the interplay of layers is of primary concern to a cartographer, much of the research on terrain mapping has focused on studying terrain layers individually. This research aimed to fill this gap by evaluating the effect of combining shaded relief with thematic terrain layers and assessing ratings of beauty, realism, and landform clarity in an exploratory online user study. Specifically, we tested the combination of: manual, multidirectional, and ray-traced shaded relief with three thematic terrain layers: hypsometric tinting, land cover, and orthoimagery. There are five main findings from this exploratory study: (1) there was a direct correlation between beauty and realism scores, (2) the manual relief we tested was consistently rated lowest for beauty, realism, and landform clarity, and orthoimagery was rated the highest for beauty and realism, (3) shaded relief was more influential than thematic terrain layers on landform clarity ratings, (4) participant’s geographic familiarity had a significant impact in four specific instances of the user study, and (5) neither shaded relief or thematic terrain layers were the sole contributors to map reader perceptions of beauty, realism, or landform clarity. We conclude by identifying limitations in our stimuli design and presenting ideas for future research studies on terrain design.
{"title":"That’s a Relief: Assessing Beauty, Realism, and Landform Clarity in Multilayer Terrain Maps","authors":"Nate A Douglass, C. Fish","doi":"10.14714/cp100.1727","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14714/cp100.1727","url":null,"abstract":"Terrain maps are often composed of shaded relief along with other raster layers which we call thematic terrain layers to create aesthetically pleasing and clear maps of physical geography. Despite that the interplay of layers is of primary concern to a cartographer, much of the research on terrain mapping has focused on studying terrain layers individually. This research aimed to fill this gap by evaluating the effect of combining shaded relief with thematic terrain layers and assessing ratings of beauty, realism, and landform clarity in an exploratory online user study. Specifically, we tested the combination of: manual, multidirectional, and ray-traced shaded relief with three thematic terrain layers: hypsometric tinting, land cover, and orthoimagery. There are five main findings from this exploratory study: (1) there was a direct correlation between beauty and realism scores, (2) the manual relief we tested was consistently rated lowest for beauty, realism, and landform clarity, and orthoimagery was rated the highest for beauty and realism, (3) shaded relief was more influential than thematic terrain layers on landform clarity ratings, (4) participant’s geographic familiarity had a significant impact in four specific instances of the user study, and (5) neither shaded relief or thematic terrain layers were the sole contributors to map reader perceptions of beauty, realism, or landform clarity. We conclude by identifying limitations in our stimuli design and presenting ideas for future research studies on terrain design.","PeriodicalId":35716,"journal":{"name":"Cartographic Perspectives","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42286150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Atlas of the Invisible","authors":"Rosemary P. Wardley","doi":"10.14714/cp99.1777","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14714/cp99.1777","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35716,"journal":{"name":"Cartographic Perspectives","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41913801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Frederick Law Olmsted: Plans and Views of Communities and Private Estates","authors":"Nat Case","doi":"10.14714/cp99.1773","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14714/cp99.1773","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35716,"journal":{"name":"Cartographic Perspectives","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46103726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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