Cartography

Abstract

Marble, 1990;Scholten and Stillwell, 1990;Worrall, 1990). Ball and Babbage (1989) review the Australian military use of digital mapping and GIS.There is considerable overlap between cartography and GIS; both produce maps (indeed one criticism of the use of GISs is that many use an expensive technology to produce digital maps), both use spatial information, both make use of a variety of data sources such as photogrammetry and remote sensing. If there is a distinction it is that GIS sees no role for traditional manual cartography other than as a data source. Thus the technical, more traditional cartographic practices could be separately reviewed. Nevertheless, I make no apology for not writing of advances in pen nibs, ink types, paper and film research, or ergonomic drafting tables. This is not to scorn an essential, and professional cohort of 'real'

From mathematical to post-representational understandings of cartography

“…Taking over from Monmonier, between 1985 and1992 Michael Blakemore wrote six progress reports. The first four reports paired cartography with geographical information systems, reflecting the trend identified by Monmonier, as cartographic practice became increasingly computerized and subsumed within emerging GIScience debates, with maps becoming viewed 'as but a part of an overall set of representational techniques ' (1985: 566).…”