Dissemination of Cartographic Knowledge 6th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography, 2016 /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Altić, Mirela (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Demhardt, Imre Josef (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Vervust, Soetkin (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Publications of the International Cartographic Association (ICA),
• Subjects: Geographical information systems.; Urban geography.; Computer simulation.; Climate change.; Urban economics.; Environmental health.; Geographical Information Systems/Cartography.; Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns).; Simulation and Modeling.; Climate Change Management and Policy.; Urban Economics.; Environmental Health.

This book gathers 22 papers which were presented at the 6th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography in Dubrovnik, Croatia on 13-15 October 2016. The overall conference theme was 'The Dissemination of Cartographic Knowledge: Production - Trade - Consumption -...

Table of Contents:

• Part I Mapping Urban Spaces
• A View of Dubrovnik as a Spectacle: Presentations of the Dubrovnik Earthquake of 1667 in European Commercial Cartography
• Mapping the metropolis: analysing map production in Lyon and São Paulo on the first half of the 20th century
• Part II Territory, Sovereignty and Borderlands
• Between Secrecy and Silent Cooperation - The Dissemination of Knowledge about the Republic of Dubrovnik in the Context of the Ottoman-Venetian and Napoleonic Wars
• Cartographic exchange and territorial creation: rewriting northern Japan in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
• Part III Map Production and Dissemination of Knowledge
• 'Back to the Drawing Board': map-making and the Royal Geographical Society 1831-1990
• Historiographic Mapping of 7th c. BC Egypt: the obliteration of historical complexity
• Part IV Libraries, Accessibility and Specific Cartographic Resources
• Improving User Access to Soviet Military Mapping: A Guide for Map Libraries around the Globe
• User-Centred Design of a Collaborative, Object Oriented Historical GIS-Platform.