| Description |
xiii, 513 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Taking a Scientific Approach to Improving Map Representation and Design -- 2. An Information-Processing View of Vision and Visual Cognition -- 3. How Maps Are Seen -- 4. How Maps Are Understood: Visual Array [actual symbol not reproducible] Visual Description [actual symbol not reproducible] Knowledge Schemata [actual symbol not reproducible] Cognitive Representation -- 5. A Primer on Semiotics for Understanding Map Representation -- 6. A Functional Approach to Map Representation: The Semantics and Syntactics of Map Signs -- 7. A Lexical Approach to Map Representation: Map Pragmatics -- 8. GVIS: Facilitating Visual Thinking -- 9. GVIS: Relationships in Space and Time -- 10. GVIS: Should We Believe What We See? |
| Summary |
"This book is the first systematic integration of cognitive and semiotic approaches to understanding maps as powerful, abstract, and synthetic spatial representations. Presenting a perspective built on four decades of cartographic research, along with research from other areas, it explores how maps work at multiple levels - from the individual to societal - and provides a cohesive picture of how the many representational choices inherent in mapping interact with the processing of information construction of knowledge. Utilizing this perspective, the author shows how the insights derived from a better understanding of maps can be used in future map design. Although computers now provide the graphic tools to produce maps of similar or better quality than those produced by previous manual techniques, they seldom incorporate the conceptual tools needed to make informed symbolization and design decisions |
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The search for these conceptual tools is the basis for How Maps Work."--BOOK JACKET |
| Analysis |
Cartography |
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Cartography |
| Notes |
Bibliography: p463-490. _ Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 463-490) and index |
| Subject |
Cartography.
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Maps.
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Visualization.
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| LC no. |
94031138 |
| ISBN |
0898625890 |
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