By exposing the flaws in this ideal, his book challenges everyone who studies maps and mapping practices to reexamine their approach to the topic. To illuminate this bold argument, Edney chronicles precisely how the ideal of cartography that has developed in the West since 1800 has gone astray.
Rather than treating maps as a single, unified group, he argues, scholars need to take a processual approach that examines specific types of maps-sea charts versus thematic maps, for example-in the context of the unique circumstances of their production, circulation, and consumption. In this book Edney disavows the term cartography, rejecting the notion that maps represent an undifferentiated category of objects for study. Edney has a unique vantage point for understanding what “cartography” has come to mean and include. David Rumsey is president of Cartography Associates, a digital publishing company based in San Francisco, and a director of Luna Imaging, a provider of enterprise software for online image collections.Rumsey, David is the author of 'Cartographica Extraordinaire The Historical Map Transformed' with ISBN 9781589480445 and ISBN 1589480449. They are accompanied by newly commissioned reflective essays by the original article authors, and other eminent scholars, to provide fresh interpretation of the meaning of the ideas presented and their wider, lasting.
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As the current director of the project that has produced these volumes, Matthew H. The ‘classics’ are drawn exclusively from the international peer-review journal Cartographica and are reprinted in full here. Over the past four decades, the volumes published in the landmark History of Cartography series have both chronicled and encouraged scholarship about maps and mapping practices across time and space.
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