Başlık:
Understanding Different Geographies
Yazar:
Kriz, Karel. editor.
ISBN:
9783642297700
Fiziksel Tanım:
IX, 252 p. 131 illus., 100 illus. in color. online resource.
Series:
Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography,
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.
Abstract:
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.
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Electronic Access:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29770-0