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Originally published to wide acclaim, this illustrated essay on the use and abuse of maps teaches us how to evaluate maps critically and promotes a healthy skepticism about these easy-to-manipulate models of reality. To show how maps distort, Monmonier introduces basic principles of mapmaking, gives entertaining examples of the misuse of maps in situations from zoning disputes to census reports, and covers all the typical kinds of distortions from deliberate oversimplifications to the misleading use of color.

Cartography. --- Deception. --- Geodesy. Cartography --- Maps --- Cartography --- Deception --- Cartes --- Cartographie --- Tromperie --- Analysis --- Analyse --- Aardrijkskunde --- Manipulatie --- Beïnvloeding --- Cartografie --- 528.22 --- 528.9 --- 528.22 Methods of determining the figure of the Earth --- Methods of determining the figure of the Earth --- Chicanery --- Deceit --- Subterfuge --- Truthfulness and falsehood --- Intrigue --- 528.9 Cartography. Mapping (textual documents) --- Cartography. Mapping (textual documents) --- Cartography, Primitive --- Chartography --- Map-making --- Mapmaking --- Mapping (Cartography) --- Mathematical geography --- Surveying --- Map projection

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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. .

Sociology of knowledge --- Higher education --- Geodesy. Cartography --- Pure sciences. Natural sciences --- Engineering sciences. Technology --- Geography --- History --- HO (hoger onderwijs) --- geodesie --- GIS (geografisch informatiesysteem) --- geschiedenis --- technologie --- wetenschappen

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'Maps with the News' is a lively assessment of the role of cartography in American journalism. Tracing the use of maps in American news reporting from the eighteenth century to the 1980s, Mark Monmonier explores why and how journalistic maps have achieved such importance. "A most welcome and thorough investigation of a neglected aspect of both the history of cartography and modern cartographic practice."--'Mapline' "A well-written, scholarly treatment of journalistic cartography. . . . It is well researched, thoroughly indexed and referenced . . . amply illustrated."--Judith A. Tyner, 'Imago Mundi' "There is little doubt that 'Maps with the News' should be part of the training and on the desks of all those concerned with producing maps for mass consumption, and also on the bookshelves of all journalists, graphic artists, historians of cartography, and geographic educators."--W. G. V. Balchin, 'Geographical Journal' "A definitive work on journalistic cartography."--Virginia Chipperfield, 'Society of University Cartographers Bulletin'

Maps in journalism --- Geografie --- History. --- Cartografie --- Kaartgebruik. --- United States --- History

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No place is perfectly safe, but some places are more dangerous than others. Whether we live on a floodplain or in "Tornado Alley," near a nuclear facility or in a neighborhood poorly lit at night, we all co-exist uneasily with natural and man-made hazards. As Mark Monmonier shows in this entertaining and immensely informative book, maps can tell us a lot about where we can anticipate certain hazards, but they can also be dangerously misleading. California, for example, takes earthquakes seriously, with a comprehensive program of seismic mapping, whereas Washington has been comparatively lax about earthquakes in Puget Sound. But as the Northridge earthquake in January 1994 demonstrated all too clearly to Californians, even reliable seismic-hazard maps can deceive anyone who misinterprets "known fault-lines" as the only places vulnerable to earthquakes. Important as it is to predict and prepare for catastrophic natural hazards, more subtle and persistent phenomena such as pollution and crime also pose serious dangers that we have to cope with on a daily basis. Hazard-zone maps highlight these more insidious hazards and raise awareness about them among planners, local officials, and the public. With the help of many maps illustrating examples from all corners of the United States, Monmonier demonstrates how hazard mapping reflects not just scientific understanding of hazards but also perceptions of risk and how risk can be reduced. Whether you live on a faultline or a coastline, near a toxic waste dump or an EMF-generating power line, you ignore this book's plain-language advice on geographic hazards and how to avoid them at your own peril. "No one should buy a home, rent an apartment, or even drink the local water without having read this fascinating cartographic alert on the dangers that lurk in our everyday lives. . . . Who has not asked where it is safe to live? Cartographies of Danger provides the answer."-H. J. de Blij, NBC News "Even if you're not interested in maps, you're almost certainly interested in hazards. And this book is one of the best places I've seen to learn about them in a highly entertaining and informative fashion."-John Casti, New Scientist

Maps. --- Natural disasters. --- Natural disasters --- Hazardous geographic environments --- Geography --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Physical Geography --- Maps --- Environments, Hazardous geographic --- Natural calamities --- Geografie --- Cartografie --- Toepassingen. --- Disasters --- Human ecology --- cartography, map, mapmaker, mapmaking, maps, geography, american, united states, usa, regional, academic, scholarly, research, dangerous, hazard, risk, risky, natural, manmade, disaster, seismic, nuclear, puget sound, earthquake, fault line, phenomena, pollution, coastline, geographic, safety, flooding, floodplain, crime, criminal, safe.