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This book is a guide to the tools necessary to evaluate, test, and modify surveys in an iterative method during the survey pretesting process. It includes examples that apply usability to any type of survey during any stage of development, along with tactics on how to tailor usability testing to meet budget and scheduling constraints.

Surveys --- Social sciences --- Social surveys --- Methodology. --- Research --- Research. --- Internet surveys --- #SBIB:303H30 --- Government surveys --- Mathematical geography --- Methodology --- Kwalitatieve methoden: algemeen --- Surveys - Methodology

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Located in the often-contentious center of the European continent, German territory has regularly served as a primary tool through which to understand and study Germany's economic, cultural, and political development. Many German geographers throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries became deeply invested in geopolitical determinism--the idea that a nation's territorial holdings (or losses) dictate every other aspect of its existence. Taking this as his premise, Mingus focuses on the use of maps as mediums through which the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union sought to reshape German national identity after the Second World War. As important as maps and the study of geography have been to the field of European history, few scholars have looked at the postwar development of occupied Germany through the lens of the map--the most effective means to orient German citizens ontologically within a clearly and purposefully delineated spatial framework. Mingus traces the institutions and individuals involved in the massive cartographic overhaul of postwar Germany. In doing so, he explores not only the causes and methods behind the production and reproduction of Germany's mapped space but also the very real consequences of this practice.

Cartography --- Cartography, Primitive --- Chartography --- Map-making --- Mapmaking --- Mapping (Cartography) --- Mathematical geography --- Surveying --- Map projection --- Maps --- History --- 551.91 --- 551.91 Historische geografie --- Historische geografie

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An exploration of moral stress, distress, and injuries inherent in modern society through the maps that pervade academic and public communications worlds.In Ethics in Everyday Places, ethicist and geographer Tom Koch considers what happens when, as he puts it, "you do everything right but know you've done something wrong." The resulting moral stress and injury, he argues, are pervasive in modern Western society. Koch makes his argument "from the ground up," from the perspective of average persons, and through a revealing series of maps in which issues of ethics and morality are embedded.The book begins with a general grounding in both moral stress and mapping as a means of investigation. The author then examines the ethical dilemmas of mapmakers and others in the popular media and the sciences, including graphic artists, journalists, researchers, and social scientists. Koch expands from the particular to the general, from mapmaker and journalist to the readers of maps and news. He explores the moral stress and injury in educational funding, poverty, and income inequality ("Why aren't we angry that one in eight fellow citizens lives in federally certified poverty?"), transportation modeling (seen in the iconic map of the London transit system and the hidden realities of exclusion), and U.S. graft organ transplantation.This uniquely interdisciplinary work rewrites our understanding of the nature of moral stress, distress and injury, and ethics in modern life. Written accessibly and engagingly, it transforms how we think of ethics--personal and professional--amid the often conflicting moral injunctions across modern society.Copublished with Esri Press

General ethics --- Ethics. --- Cartography --- Miscellanea. --- PHILOSOPHY/Ethics & Bioethics --- INFORMATION SCIENCE/General --- Cartography, Primitive --- Chartography --- Map-making --- Mapmaking --- Mapping (Cartography) --- Mathematical geography --- Surveying --- Map projection --- Maps --- Deontology --- Ethics, Primitive --- Ethology --- Moral philosophy --- Morality --- Morals --- Philosophy, Moral --- Science, Moral --- Philosophy --- Values

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This book explores the US patent system, which helped practical minded innovators establish intellectual property rights and fulfill the need for achievement that motivates inventors and scholars alike. In this sense, the patent system was a parallel literature: a vetting institution similar to the conventional academic-scientific-technical journal insofar as the patent examiner was both editor and peer reviewer, while the patent attorney was a co-author or ghost writer. In probing evolving notions of novelty, non-obviousness, and cumulative innovation, Mark Monmonier examines rural address guides, folding schemes, world map projections, diverse improvements of the terrestrial globe, mechanical route-following machines that anticipated the GPS navigator, and the early electrical you-are-here mall map, which opened the way for digital cartography and provided fodder for patent trolls, who treat the patent largely as a license to litigate. .

Social sciences. --- Geographical information systems. --- Technology --- Social Sciences. --- Science and Technology Studies. --- Geographical Information Systems/Cartography. --- History of Technology. --- History. --- Cartography --- Patents --- Intellectual property --- Cartography, Primitive --- Chartography --- Map-making --- Mapmaking --- Mapping (Cartography) --- Mathematical geography --- Surveying --- Map projection --- Maps --- Technology—Sociological aspects. --- Technology-History. --- Geographical information systems --- GIS (Information systems) --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- Geography --- Technology—History.

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François de Dainville se familiarise tout jeune avec les cartons d'archives en compagnie de son père chartiste. Il entre en 1928 dans la Compagnie de Jésus, où il fait ses premières expériences pédagogiques. Son doctorat d'état, qu'il défend à l'aube de la guerre, embrasse les savoirs des géographes humanistes et leur mode de transmission. Dès l'après guerre, il renonce à en publier le troisième volet et élargit ses contacts avec les sciences humaines. Historien de la pédagogie et de la cartographie, il marque ses auditeurs de l'École pratique des hautes études et de l'École des chartes. Il publie des documents inédits qui piquent la curiosité, des ouvrages qui sont de vrais guides de recherche. En 1964, il réalise la première synthèse sur les signes des cartes anciennes et réfléchit à l'élaboration d'un langage pour les atlas thématiques. Les contributions de ce volume témoignent de l'homme, de sa place dans la communauté scientifique et des travaux qu'il a inspirés.

Geodesy. Cartography --- Dainville, François de --- Congresses --- Cartography --- History --- Education --- Philosophy --- Study and teaching --- Dainville, François de --- Cartography, Primitive --- Chartography --- Map-making --- Mapmaking --- Mapping (Cartography) --- Mathematical geography --- Surveying --- Map projection --- Maps --- De Dainville, François --- jésuite --- histoire de la cartographie --- cartographie --- ponts et chaussées --- histoire moderne --- éducation --- histoire de l'éducation --- ingénieur