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Mapping Time Menno-Jan Kraak

Mapping Time By Menno-Jan Kraak

Mapping Time by Menno-Jan Kraak

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Considers the cartographic challenge of visualizing time on a map. Inspired by graphic innovator Charles Minard's classic map of France's disastrous invasion of Russia, this book combines historical and geographic analysis with cartographic visualizations of mapping change over time. It includes more than 100 full-colour illustrations.

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Mapping Time: Illustrated by Minard's Map of Napoleon's Russian Campaign of 1812 by Menno-Jan Kraak

Mapping Time: Illustrated by Minard's Map of Napoleon's Russian Campaign of 1812 considers the cartographic challenge of visualizing time on a map. Inspired by graphic innovator Charles Minard's classic map of France's disastrous invasion of Russia, this book combines historical and geographic analysis with cartographic visualizations of mapping change over time. It includes more than 100 full-color illustrations.

About Menno-Jan Kraak

Menno-Jan Kraak is a professor of geovisualization at the University of Twente in Enschede, Netherlands. He has written more than 200 publications on cartography and GIS and coauthored the textbook, Cartography, Visualization of Geospatial Data (Pearson Education 2010), which has been translated into five languages.

Table of Contents

  • Preface
  • Introduction: Maps tell time
  • 1 Napoleon's Russian campaign, About Gerrit Janz Kraak
  • 2 Minard's map
  • 2.1 The map, About Minard
  • 2.2 Minard's work
  • 2.3 Mapping 1812 As a historical event Inspired by Minard Curiosities
  • 3 Time
  • 3.1 What about time?
  • 3.2 Types of time
  • 3.3 Events and change
  • 3.4 Questions and time
  • 3.5 Temporal data visualization and time-space
  • 4 Maps, data, and design
  • 4.1 Map basics
  • 4.2 Map data analysis
  • 4.3 Map design
  • 5 Maps and time
  • 5.1 Map narrative
  • 5.2 Expressing change
  • Change from object perspective
  • Change from attribute perspective
  • Change from location perspective
  • Change and Minard's representation of Napoleon's Russian campaign
  • Change and the map background
  • 5.3 Change in a single map, Flow line maps, Cartograms, Space time cube, A third dimension
  • 5.4 Change in a series of maps
  • 5.5 Change in animation
  • 6 Maps and temporal exploration
  • 6.1 From presentation to exploration, Mapping environment, Representation, Design guidelines, Visualization strategies
  • 6.2 Exploring, Reviewing Napoleon's battle record, What happened at the crossing of the Berezina River?
  • 7 Reflection
  • References
  • Credits
  • Index

Additional information

CIN158948312XG
9781589483125
158948312X
Mapping Time: Illustrated by Minard's Map of Napoleon's Russian Campaign of 1812 by Menno-Jan Kraak
Menno-Jan Kraak
Used - Good
Hardback
ESRI Press
20140529
192
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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