You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.īoth comments and pings are currently closed. On Sunday, January 13th, 2008 at 2:59 pm and is filed under Geography, Mapping, Promote. and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available. He has written three novels and is the co-author of “Eyes of the Nation: A Visual History of the United States.” is a photography editor who has contributed to over 150 books. Following the talk, take an exclusive look inside the “treasures vault” of the Library of Congress Geography and Map division to examine and learn more about their holdings and some of the maps included in the book.

John Hebert’, Chief of the Geography and Maps division and Ronald Grim, retired curator of the Maps Division contributed to the book and joined the author for a presentation at the Library of Congress. The impact score (IS) 2021 of Acta Geodaetica et Cartographica Sinica is 1.30, which is computed in 2022 as per its definition.Acta Geodaetica et Cartographica Sinica IS is increased by a factor of 0.36 and approximate percentage change is 38.3 when compared to preceding year 2020, which shows a rising trend. worked for eight years with the staff of the Library of Congress to create this book on the history of maps and how they reveal civilizations.

Launched in 1964, it is the official journal of the Canadian Cartographic Association (CCA) and publishes interdisciplinary research on all aspects of cartography and. This book has also been reviewed in The Washington Post. Cartographica is an active peer-reviewed scholarly journal published quarterly by the University of Toronto Press. The book is fine example of how a great collection can enhance our knowledge and understanding and is testament to the passions that objects and artifacts can inspire.C-SPAN has archived their program on “Cartographia: Mapping Civilizations” for your viewing pleasure. At the end of the book, we are treated to a few pictures of Rumsey’s library on the ground floor of his home in San Francisco, including a nice panoramic view. More than 100 images of items in Rumsey’s collection are depicted in this book with a loose narrative history of the methods used in mapping and surveying America. Although there is some distortion (the maps are “georectified,” meaning that key geographical points are matched up and the rest stretched to fit), it is an amazing and compelling work of historical, contextual cartography. These three “layers” were then placed over Landsat satellite imagery from NASA, creating a multilayered picture of the expanding knowledge and development of the American West over the course of two centuries. The most stunning is the “Lewis and Clark Expedition 200th Anniversary Mosaic,” created by digitally merging three maps: the central portion of Samuel Lewis’s 1814 map, based on William Clark’s original drawing the General Land Office’s first complete land survey (circa 1870) and a map from the 1970 United States Geological Survey National Atlas. According to Rumsey and Punt, it is an “attempt to see the digital wizardry of GIS not as a break from the past and old mapping traditions, but intrinsically and essentially as part of those traditions, as another branch in a family tree.” This goal is definitely achieved, both in general and graphically, in the form of two digital maps. The goal of the book is to explore how cartography as it was practiced in the past is important to the way maps are made today, specifically to geographic information systems (GIS). It is both an exhibition catalog of highlights from his collection and a thumbnail cartographic history of the discovery, exploration, and development of the Americas from roughly 1730 to 1930. As part of his continuing effort to bring the wealth of his collection to the public, Rumsey has written a large-format book, Cartographica Extraordinaire: The Historical Map Transformed, co-authored with Edith Punt. His collection numbers more than 150,000 items, and he has placed 10,000 images of his maps online (com). Collectors of maps have an intimate knowledge of this fascination, and David Rumsey is clearly a map collector of the first rank. This annually published Bibliography provides an overview of cartographical literature published around the world. When I show rare materials to students and other groups, the maps we encounter often elicit a collective indrawn breath, a palpable focusing of attention and scrutiny.