Special Issue on Art &amp; Cartography

Caquard, Sébastien; Piatti, Barbara; Cartwright, William

doi:10.1179/174327709x12574225938589

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“…The relationships between maps and narratives have also attracted the attention of contemporary artists (Harmon, 2009;Watson, 2009;Wood, 2006) and encouraged various interactions between arts and cartography (Caquard et al, 2009a;Cartwright et al, 2009;Monmonier, 2007). Contemporary artists are exploring new ways of expressing their feelings for and understanding of places through the use of maps and through mapping practices.…”

Section: Mapping Narratives In the Arts And Humanitiesmentioning

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Cartography I

Caquard

2011

Progress in Human Geography

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This report focuses on the growing interest in the relationship between maps, narratives and metanarratives. Following a brief historical contextualization of these relationships, this report explores their current state in the Geoweb era. Using the distinction between story maps and grid maps as an analytical framework, I review emerging issues around the extensive use of technologies and online mapping services (i.e. Google maps) to convey stories and to produce new ones. Drawing on literature in film studies, literary studies, visual arts, computer science and communication, I also emphasize the emergence of new forms of spatial expressions interested in providing different perspectives about places and about stories associated to places. In sum, I argue that mapping both vernacular knowledge and fiction is central to understanding places in depth.

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Section: Mapping Narratives In the Arts And Humanitiesmentioning

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Cartography I

Caquard

2011

Progress in Human Geography

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“…This imagery, Kingsbury and Jones remind us, is also being widely used in the visual arts, and further, can itself be a sort of absurdist visual art -as in their example of appended satellite images in one platform that show half of a river flowing freely in summer, while its other half remains frozen in winter. Crampton (2009aCrampton ( , 2009b discusses numerous examples of geospatial technologies and representations used in the arts, as do Caquard et al (2009). Within these discussions of the significance and impacts of the geoweb's visual practices, several scholars argue that the geoweb is implicated in a cultural repositioning of visual epistemologies.…”

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Geographic Information Science: Visualization, visual methods, and the geoweb

Elwood

2010

Progress in Human Geography

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This review considers two recent trajectories of research on the geospatial web: efforts to develop appropriate methodologies for working with the new forms of geographic information that are part of it, and studies of its cultural, social, and political significance. In both arenas, visualization and visual methods are central. I show how methodologies drawn from quantitative and qualitative approaches to geovisualization in GIScience offer productive ways of working with geoweb-based information in research, and examine recent efforts to use critical visual methods to study the geoweb as visual practice.

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“…Map creation has historically involved much artistry (Field, 2009)-from early cartographers who have created magnificent atlases to beautiful examples in modern interactive infographics. Even though some modern maps (e. g., in GPS car navigation) tend to focus on their task such as supporting navigation and only as a secondary aspect on their aesthetic character (Kent, 2005), artists have also explored maps in their works (e. g., (Wood, 2006;Varanka, 2006;Krygier, 2006;Caquard et al, 2009;Harmon, 2009;Ljungberg, 2009;Watson, 2009)); some art historians argue, for example, that Piet Mondrian, during the later part of his life, was at least in part inspired by maps or city street layouts to some of his well-known abstract works (Schoenholz Bee & Heliczer, 2004).…”

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Visual Abstraction and Stylisation of Maps

Isenberg

2013

The Cartographic Journal

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Abstract-We explore visual map abstraction for the generation of stylized renderings of 2D map data. We employ techniques that are centered around the concept of shape simplification and graph layout and that allow iterative abstraction of 2D maps. We use data from publicly available sources and show how we can iteratively generate aesthetic renditions of these maps. These renditions do not have the goal to allow for navigation tasks but instead show the map data in a distorted manner. The techniques used to create these images apply simplification, abstraction/generalization, and displacement operations to the map elements in varying orders and add stylistic shading to produce aesthetic renditions for print or electronic displays. The degree of abstraction/generalization can be individually chosen and determines the characteristics of the distorted map: whether components retain their shape, degenerate, or are processed in a manner that the abstraction becomes the focus of the image rather than the underlying map data. The renditions can be further personalized by choosing shading and colors for this shading. Together, the presented techniques allow for playful and creative exploration of aesthetic renditions of 2D map data.

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Special Issue on Art & Cartography

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Geographic Information Science: Visualization, visual methods, and the geoweb

Visual Abstraction and Stylisation of Maps

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