Understanding Different Geographies

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Kriz, Karel (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Cartwright, William (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Kinberger, Michaela (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Σειρά: Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography,
• Θέματα: Geography.; Geographical information systems.; Geographical Information Systems/Cartography.

This book collects revised versions of papers first delivered at the “Understanding Different Geographies Symposium” held in Puchberg am Schneeberg, Austria in 2011.  The Symposium focussed on “Communicating Meaning with [Geo]Graphic Artefacts”.  The general topics of the chapters cover: - Exploring...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• From the Contents: Maps and Design
• Cartography utilizing Geo-Communication
• Understanding different geographies: the case for drawings and sketches
• Artefacts and geospaces
• Understanding Artefacts through Geographies – Perceiving Geographies through Artefacts
• Harriet Edquist and Lisa Byrne: Understanding Place
• When countries become gods – some thoughts on the geospatial aspect of deities and demons in India
• Exhibitions and Geospace
• Potential Information Gains for Exhibition Makers and their audience in Mapping the Movement of Objects
• Representations and Geospace
• The Geography of Uncertainty: Outcomes Spaces and Uncertainty Visualization.