Review of The Routledge Handbook of Mapping and Cartography

Samsonov, T.

Автор: Samsonov T.
Журнал: Cartographic Perspectives
Номер: 91
Год издания: 2018
Издательство: North American Cartographic Information Society
Местоположение издательства: United States
Первая страница: 160
Последняя страница: 164
DOI: 10.14714/CP91.1505
Аннотация: The Routledge Handbook of Mapping and Cartography has appeared at an interesting time. Cartography is going through a very intensive stage of evolution. More maps are now made by people without any cartographic training than are made by trained cartographers (Griffin et al. 2017), and although the data have never been precisly tracked, there is evidence that the trend is growing. The current situation is a challenge for cartography because, as Mark Monmonier states in Chapter 40, “once mapping morphed into geospatial technology, the traditional visible map became just another form of geographic information” (540). The wide availability of easy to use cartographic tools to non-professional mapmakers has, arguably, led cartography to a critical moment in which it must rethink its place in science, industry, and society. Although bookstore shelves are well stocked with beautiful and carefully composed literature on practical cartography (Brewer 2015; Peterson 2015; Field 2018), the most recent comprehensive textbooks on the subject are now almost ten years old (Slocum et al. 2008; Kraak and Ormeling 2010). It seems that the rapid evolution of mapmaking has made the challenge of writing such a volume—one that won’t be outdated the day after publication—almost too formidable a task to take on. Almost, it seems, but not quite. The Routledge Handbook of Mapping and Cartography is one of the few summarizing, international volumes on cartography to be released in recent years. Densely typeset on six hundred pages, it encompasses a huge amount of information covering a wide range of theoretical and practical aspects of modern cartography.
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