Understanding Different Geographies (Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography)

Kriz, K. (EDT)/ Cartwright, W. (EDT)/ Kinberger, M. (EDT)

Springer（2012/10発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 193 p.／サイズ 131 illus., 100 in color
• 商品コード 9783642297694

Full Description

This book collects revised versions of papers first delivered at the "Understanding Different Geographies Symposium" held in Puchberg am Schneeberg, Austria in 2011.  The Symposium focussed on "Communicating Meaning with [Geo]Graphic Artefacts".  The general topics of the chapters cover:
- Exploring geographic knowledge
- Maps in exhibition spaces
- Information and exhibition design with (geo)graphic artefacts
- Extracting meaning from visualisations of different geographies
- Deconstructing maps of information - and other spaces

Contents

From the Contents: Maps and Design.- Cartography utilizing Geo-Communication.- Understanding different geographies: the case for drawings and sketches.- Artefacts and geospaces.- Understanding Artefacts through Geographies - Perceiving Geographies through Artefacts.- Harriet Edquist and Lisa Byrne: Understanding Place.- When countries become gods - some thoughts on the geospatial aspect of deities and demons in India.- Exhibitions and Geospace.- Potential Information Gains for Exhibition Makers and their audience in Mapping the Movement of Objects.- Representations and Geospace.- The Geography of Uncertainty: Outcomes Spaces and Uncertainty Visualization.