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Chrysochoou, Styiani A. "The cartographical tradition of Ptolemy's geographic hyphegesis in the Palaeologan period and the renaissance (13th-16th century)." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.529764.
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Kauneckaitė, Lina. "Lietuvos gyventojų socialinių pokyčių raiška kartografinėmis anamorfozėmis." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2009. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2006~D_20090908_193916-20325.
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Be tradicinių kartografinio vaizdavimo metodų sukurtų euklidinės geometrijos pagrindu yra kartografinių modelių, kurių sudarymo principas – ne euklidinė metrika. Tokie modeliai yra kartoidai, minčių žemėlapiai, kartografinės anamorfozės. Kartografinės anamorfozės – tai išvestiniai tradicinių žemėlapių grafinis vaizdas, kuriame reiškinio kartografinio vaizdo deformacija priklauso nuo nagrinėjamo reiškinio reikšmių, pamatinio žemėlapio bei pasirinkto algoritmo tipo. Anamorfozės būna dviejų būdų: reguliaraus ir laisvo tinklo. Šio baigiamojo magistro darbo tiklas susipažinti su kartografinių anamorfozių sudarymo teorinėmis nuostatomis ir remiantis jomis sudaryti nereguliaraus tinklo Lietuvos gyventojų tarptautinės emigracijos kartografinę anamorfozę. Kartografinės anamorfozės labiausiai tinka socialiniams-ekonominiams reiškiniams vaizduoti, nes anamorfozės, kartografinės raiškos požiūriu geriau perteikia statistinę informaciją, ir pagerina komunikacinę kokybę. Kartografinių anamorfozių didžiausias trūkumas – paprastų algoritmų joms sudaryti trukūmas. Tačiau nepaisant to, šis kartografinio vaizdavimo metodas yra vienas iš perspektyvių kartografijos plėtros sryčių, todėl labai svarbu, kad Lietuvoje būtų pradėtas tirti šis kartografinio vaizdavimo būdas.Besides the traditional methods of the cartographical representation, created by the laws of Euclidean geometry, there are images, which have in their basis principles of non-Euclidean metric: cartoids, "mental" maps and cartographical anamorphosises. Cartographical anamorphoses - the graphic representations, derivatives of traditional maps, which scale is transformed, depending on the value of the characteristic of the phenomena on an initial map also on algorithm. Anamorphosise can be classified into: regular and irregular grid. The purpose of this master degree work is to get more information about creation of cartographical anamorphosises and going by that to make irregular grid anamorphosis of international emigration in Lithuania. Cartographical anamorphosises are the best to use for socio-economical analysis, because it show better statistic information and it have better quality of communication. The biggest disadvantage of cartographical anamorphoses is the defect of simple algorithms to create them. In spite of that, this cartographical method of visualization is one of most promising field of cartography that is why is very important to start analyses this cartographical method of visualization in Lithuania.
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Alekna, Vilmantas. "Trimačio kartografinio vaizdo informatyvumo galimybės." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2014. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2011~D_20140627_170910-96039.
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Darbe yra siekiama išanalizuoti trimačio kartografinio vaizdo (žemėlapio) informatyvumo galimybes autoriaus sukurtų trimačių žemėlapių (modelių) pagrindu. Darbe apžvelgiami trimačio kartografinio vaizdo kūrimo metodai ir priemonės. Svarbų indelį trimačių kartografinių kūrinių sudaryme šiandien vaidina atskira grafinio dizaino kryptis – infografika. Tačiau trimatį kartografavimą palaikančių kompiuterinių programų nėra daug, pagrindinės iš jų leidžiančios sudarinėti erdvinius modelius yra ArcGIS ir AutoCAD. ArcGIS grafinio trimačio vizualizavimo ir Google SketchUp programinės įrangos pagrindu sukurti 4 trimačiai įvairių teminių sričių žemėlapiai. Informatyvumo nustatymo tikslui pasiekti yra vykdomas trimačių kartografinių ženklų informatyvumo, informacijos talpumo (kartografuojamų rodiklių kiekio atžvilgiu) bei panaudojimo tyrimas. Taip pat atliekama kartografijos profesionalų bei teminių sričių specialistų apklausa. Rezultatuose išryškėja pradinių kartografuojamų duomenų analizės svarba. Tinkamai parinkus kartografinį metodą leidžiantį atskleisti trečios dimensijos papildomas galimybes trimatis žemėlapis tampa informatyvesnis lyginant su įprastu planiniu kartografiniu vaizdu. Santykinių – hipotetinių paviršių žemėlapiai, kuriuose naudojami struktūriniai ženklai tinkamiausi socialinių rodiklių, o kombinuojant su tolydžiu paviršiumi – ir fiziniams reiškiniams kartografuoti.The author is seeking to analize three-dimensional cartographical view informative opportunities created by the author 3D maps (models) basis. The paper gives an overview of 3D cartographic display methods and instruments. Important role in nowadays 3D mapping plays a separate graphic design trend – infographics. However 3D mapping computer programs are not many, the main ones allowing a spatial model are ArcGIS and AutoCAD. Basis of 3D graphics and imaging software ArcGIS together with Google SketchUp were created 4 different 3D thematic maps. Informative purpose is atchieved by research of 3D cartographic signs informative-capacity and uses potential. Also were done a poll of mapping professionals and thematic cartography specialists. Initial results revealed the importance of mapping data analysis. Properly selected mapping method allows to reveal additional opportunities of third dimension, in this way the map becomes more informative comparing it with two-dimensional map. Relative – hyphotethical surfaces maps in which are used structural cartographic signs is most appropriate for mapping of social indicators. And in the combination with continual surface (terrain model) – is appropriate for mapping of natural phenomena.
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Kiimann, Hele. "Coastal livelihoods : A study of population and land-use in Noarootsi, Estonia 1690 to 1940." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-272469.
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This thesis investigates how the inhabitants formed the coastal landscape of northwest Estonia through both internal change and external impact by estate owners, provincial government and imperial decrees. Two villages on the largely Swedish populated Noarootsi peninsula, Einbi (Enby) and Kudani (Gutanäs), are examined in detail. The aim was to answer questions about how the local livelihoods and farming systems of coastal inhabitants changed from the late 1600s to 1940. The background of a gradual weakening of the manorial estate system from 1800 onwards and a rapid development of freehold family farming from the 1860s is important to the analysis. To examine the complex variety of factors and interactions that shape the landscape, an interdisciplinary approach to change has been used. This approach included a conceptual model for the local production unit, such as the individual farm. Information from historical maps, diverse population registers and agricultural censuses were used. The soil cover was examined with samples taken during fieldwork in the studied villages. The study shows how the development of two villages in fairly similar geographic settings differed largely due to socio-political restrictions. During feudal times, the primary changes were related to the fact that local nobility could maintain their land ownership rights and regulations for manorial deliveries and corvée duties. Changes to natural conditions, such as soil quality and land uplift, had no substantial effect on land productivity. From the 19th century, the most important factor was the legalized opportunity to purchase farms as freeholds from estates, as well as through land reforms in an independent Estonia. The traditional niche of coastal Swedish peasants, who depended on a variety of productive activities, remained in practice. As all manor land was nationalized, many new smallholdings and crofts were created based on external activities by inhabitants, such as farm day labor. Farm productivity was now increased primarily by improvement to land quality (use of artificial fertilizers and meadow drainage), and by the introduction of new implements and crops on farms consolidated from open fields.
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Нестеренко, О. В. "Методичні основи сертифікації топографо-геодезичної продукціїї в Україні." Thesis, Київський національний університет будівництва і архітектури, 2010. http://elar.nung.edu.ua/handle/123456789/1962.
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У дисертації викладений авторський підхід в процесі розробки загальних теоретично-методичних основ створення системи сертифікації топографо-геодезичної, картографічної і геоінформаційної продукції. Обгрунтовано необхідність реформування сфери оцінки якості продукції топографо-геодезичної галузі шляхом створення системи сертифікації і відповідності до вимог чинного законодавства, із використанням міжнародного досвіду в цій сфері. Розроблено операційну модель системи сертифікації топографо-геодезичної, картографічної і геоінформаційної продукції, яка враховує всі можливі маршрути процесу сертифікації, включаючи основний етап - проведення випробувальних робіт продукції. Розроблено математичну модель системи сертифікації топографо-геодезичної, картографічної і геоінформаційної продукції на основі методів лінійного програмування, що представлена у вигляді оптимізаційної задачі, цільовою функцією якої є досягнення максимуму ефективності проведення сертифікаційних робіт. Проведено визначення оцінки загального ризику топографо-геодезичної, картографічної і геоінформаційної для безпеки життєдіяльності людей і навколишнього середовища з метою обгрунтування видів і форм продукції для обов’язкової сертифікації за допомогою методів нечіткої логіки. Розроблені методичні основи доведено до практичних реалізацій створення випробувальної лабораторії на базі фотограмметричного полігону ДЗЗ.In dissertation authorial approach is expounded in the process of development of general in-methodical bases of creation of the system of certification of geodesic, mapping and geoinformation products. The necessity of reformation of sphere of estimation of quality of products of geodesic industry is reasonable by creation of the system of certification and accordance with the requirements of current legislation, with the use of international experience in this sphere. The operating model of the system of certification of geodesic, mapping and geoinformation products, which takes into account all possible routes of process of certification, is worked out, including the basic stage - realization of proof-of-concept works of products. The mathematical model of the system of certification of geodesic, mapping and geoinformation products is worked out on the basis of methods of the linear programming, that presented as an optimization task the objective function of which is achievement of a maximum of efficiency of realization of certification works. Determination of estimation of general risk of geodesic, mapping and geoinformation products for safety vital functions of people and environment is conducted with the purpose of ground of kinds and forms of products for an obligatory certification by means of methods of fuzzy logic. The worked out methodical bases are well-proven to practical realization of creation of proof-of-concept laboratory on the base of photogrammetry ground of DZZ.
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Al-Ghamdi, Ali M. A. "Cartographic line simplification : a formal role within digital cartographic production." Thesis, University of Leicester, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/30383.
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This study examines the role of cartographic line simplification in traditional map production, and explores how that role can be transformed to digital map production. Whilst previous studies theoretically recognised that simplification is only a sub-process within the general context of generalisation, they, in practical terms, have inappropriately utilised digital simplification algorithms. For example, they confuse the role of simplification with that of generalisation. Consequently, there has been little, if any, progress in the field of formalising the process of cartographic line simplification, so as to be able to perform a truly digital cartographic simplification consistent with the requirements of cartographic generalisation. Recently, there have been calls to study cartographic processes before contriving new algorithms. This study is, therefore, a response of such calls, and proposes a novel scheme by which the process of line simplification is re-examined in both the traditional and digital realms. The proposed scheme consists of three consecutive logical stages. The first stage is concerned with examination of the definition of the traditional line simplification. The second stage is concerned with evaluation of a typical widely-used digital simplification algorithm, in this case, the Douglas-Poiker algorithm, according to its underlying design specifications. The third stage involves searching for cartographic quality in the output of the algorithm, assisted by post processing by a Cubic Spline smoothing routine. Overall, a formulation of the cartographic role for the two simplification algorithms in digital cartographic generalisation is presented. The formulation can serve as a practical solution for an objective use of the two algorithms within digital mapping systems during digital cartographic productions. The study also shows that the process of simplification is a complex process, which is like any context-dependent generalisation process. Further effort will be required, however, to achieve a sound exhaustive understanding of the concept and practice of the line simplification and hence its formulation. Furthermore, the optimal goal of this work is to provide an operational model for cartographic line simplification, and a present a feasible methodology with which researchers can examine other generalisation processes.
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Correia, Filipe Laginha Pinto. "Cartographic representation of spatiotemporal phenomena." Master's thesis, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/11185.
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Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em
Engenharia InformáticaThe field of geovisual analytics focuses on visualization techniques to analyze spatial data by enhancing human cognition. However, spatial data also has a temporal component that is practically disregarded when using conventional geovisual analytic tools. Some proposals have been made for techniques to analyze spatiotemporal data, but most were made for specific use cases, and are hard to abstract for other situations. There was a need to create a method to describe and compare the existing techniques. A catalog that provides a clear description of a set of techniques that deal with spatiotemporal data is proposed. This allows the identification of the most useful techniques depending on the required criteria. The description of a technique in the catalog relies on the two frameworks proposed. The first framework is used for describing spatiotemporal datasets resorting to data scenarios, a class of datasets. Twenty three data scenarios are described using this framework. The second framework is used for describing analytical tasks on spatiotemporal data, nine different tasks are described using this framework. Also, in this document, is the proposal of two new geovisual analytical techniques that can be applied to spatiotemporal data: the attenuation & accumulation map technique and the overlapping spatiotemporal windows technique. A prototype was developed that implements both techniques as a proof of concept.
research project “GIAP - GeoInsight Analytics Platform (LISBOA-01-0202-FEDER- 024822)”, funded by Comissão de Coordenação e Desenvolvimento Regional de Lisboa e Vale do Tejo (PORLisboa), included in Sistema de Incentivos à Investigação e Desenvolvimento Tecnológico (SI I&DT), through a MSc research fellowship from FCT-UNL
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Winlow, Heather Diane. "Cartographic representations of race : c1850-1930." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.301064.
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Mayo, Timothy Robert. "Intelligent systems for cartographic data capture." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.357566.
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Culcasi, Karen. "Cartographic constructions of the Middle East." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available full text, 2008. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/syr/main.
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Hutchison, Margaret Mary. "Cartographic records in archives : a shared resource." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/25710.
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Cartography is often viewed as such an esoteric discipline employing art and science in the creation of records that little is known outside cartographic agencies about the evolution of the maps. Archives concerned with acquiring cartographic records have tended to concentrate on collecting the published maps. Maps are most often consulted for
their illustrative value or reference quality. However, this illustrative value often obscures the character and evidential value of maps. This thesis attempts to show that cartographic materials have important evidential value and that archives have a responsibility to help ensure this value is recognized both in the acquisition of records and in their eventual use.
The first problem for archives is to identify the full range of the cartographic record both in terms of agencies which produce cartographica and the records generated within each agency. Therefore, this study examines the range of cartographic records which have been produced in British Columbia over time, and the types of cartographic records three British Columbia repositories acquire. The second problem is that archivists need to gain an awareness of the cartographic communication process itself. To this end, this study outlines some aspects of cartographic communication which bear on matters of archival administration. Each of these in turn affects the appraisal of the evidential values of cartographic records. These indications of the complexity, together with the increasing sophistication, of the cartographic records argue strongly for the archivist's knowledgeability about their production as an aid in their use or interpretation.
Cartographic materials have a valid place in archives but the archivist must take an active part in acquiring and understanding the records documenting the intervening procedures between data collection and map publication. Maps can serve a wider public and archives can be
an important milieu for the more comprehensive use of the medium by acquiring the full range of cartographic records as well as helping researchers towards a better understanding of the motivating ideas behind the records they are using.Arts, Faculty of
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Mohamed, B. "Realistic 3-D displays from cartographic data." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.375850.
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Daly, Robert. "A relational database for cartographic map displays." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.375936.
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Jalia, Aftab Amirali. "Refiguring the sketch : the Nari Gandhi cartographic." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/43905.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2008.Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-117).
Nariman Dossabhai Gandhi, one of the earLiest proponents of organic architecture Taliesin and heaviLy influenced by Frank LLoyd Wright's teachings on the same subj personal understanding of the term: organic, extending it beyond his mentor's architectural rendition. Nari Gandhi defied the Legal and social norms that govern most present day ... Less-known exemplar of the organic ideology. This study of his works is placed in th that saw the emergence of new social thought, culture and architectural ... nation wanting to renew its physical identity. My thesis looks at his Life, unusual working ... and attempts to understand the ramifications of the rarity he embodied. A 37 mln film, researched and shot in India, accompanies this text and is the first like and works.
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Reddleman, Claire. "Cartographic abstraction : mapping practices in contemporary art." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2016. http://research.gold.ac.uk/18965/.
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This thesis proposes a theory of cartographic abstraction as a framework for investigating cartographic viewing, and does so through engaging with a series of contemporary artworks concerned with cartographic ‘ways of seeing’ (Berger 1972). Cartographic abstraction is a material modality of thought and experience that is produced through cartographic techniques of depiction. It is the more-than-visual register that posits and produces the ‘cartographic world’, or what John Pickles has called the ‘geo-coded world’ (2006). By this I mean the naturalized apprehension of the earth as a homogeneous space that is naturally, even necessarily, understood as regular, consistent and objective. I argue for identifying cartographic techniques of depiction as themselves abstract, and cartographic abstraction as such as the modality of thought and experience that these techniques produce. Abstraction within capitalism comes to be socially real and material, taking place outside thought. I propose a series of viewpoints, that are posited by the relations of viewing enacted by the selected artworks themselves. I analyse these viewpoints in relation to modes of cartographic viewing offered by theorists. Through close readings of cartographic artworks, I expand the current possibilities for understanding cartographic abstraction and its effects, through proposing a range of viewpoints that are both deployed in, and themselves problematize, cartographic viewing. I connect cartographic abstraction to debates about abstraction in Marxist and materialist approaches to philosophy, arguing for interpreting cartographic viewing as an abstract practice through which subjects are positioned and structured in relation to the ‘viewed’. This study discerns ‘real abstraction’ functioning in a particular area of ‘the operations of capitalism’; that is, modes of visual, and epistemological, abstraction that we can identify by exploring artworks concerned with cartographic depiction and conceptualisation. This approach to abstraction explores how cartographic knowledge can be theorized through recognising cartographic abstraction as a material modality of thought and experience.
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Gallo, Sara C. "Lost Horizon : Domestic, cartographic and imaginary space." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1283894506.
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Zhang, Chunsun. "Updating of cartographic road databases by image analysis /." Zürich : Institut für Geodäsie und Photogrammetrie an der Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule Zürich, 2003. http://e-collection.ethbib.ethz.ch/show?type=diss&nr=14934.
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Batsos, Epameinondas, and Atta Rabbi. "Clustering and cartographic simplification of point data set." Thesis, KTH, Geodesi och geoinformatik, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-79892.
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Abraham, I. M. "Automated cartographic line generalisation and scale-independent databases." Thesis, Open University, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.234248.
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Bundy, Geraint Llewellyn. "Automated cartographic generalization with a triangulated spatial model." Thesis, University of South Wales, 1996. https://pure.southwales.ac.uk/en/studentthesis/automated-cartographic-generalization-with-a-triangulated-spatial-model(754893a1-faae-4191-9e36-a15854deb36d).html.
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This thesis describes a doctoral project which has addressed some of the problems of automatically performing cartographic generalization in a holistic manner, that is, processing the map features in the context of the whole map rather than individual features in isolation. The approach is based on two key ideas: firstly, that the map surface can be represented by a structure based on simplicial complexes which provides useful relationships for topology and proximity and facilitates many of the fundamental generalization operations. Secondly, that the epistemological structures needed for generalization can be represented by a hierarchy of "context" frames, each of which encapsulate the knowledge required to recognize, generalize and resolve a cartographic situation. A data structure that uses simplicial complexes to represent map objects has been designed and implemented. Each object is described by a set of two-dimensional simplices (triangles) that are maintained in the form of a constrained Delaunay triangulation. This structure gives a fully connected two-dimensional plenum that stores important spatial relationships such as "enclosed", "adjacent" and "between" explicitly. This simplicial data structure (SDS), as it is called, can be used directly to perform several types of operations necessary for automatic generalization, for example, automatic overlap detection, displacement, merging, enlargement, simplification of building outlines and skeletonization. Algorithms for many of these operators have been implemented while others are proposed. Pseudo-code and descriptions are used to document many of these operators, results are given and discussed. A frame-based architecture is proposed which provides a framework for the representation and application of knowledge for generalization. The project was funded by an EPSRC CASE studentship in collaboration with the Ordnance Survey.
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Cook, Anthony. "Automated cartographic name placement using rule-based systems." Thesis, University of South Wales, 1988. https://pure.southwales.ac.uk/en/studentthesis/automated-cartographic-name-placement-using-rulebased-systems(d49af2c8-3a37-44c1-8cb6-a6cd3ec3195f).html.
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This thesis describes automated cartographic name placement using rule-based systems. In particular it describes the problem involved with designing a system which is flexible enough to place names on a variety of maps. This is demonstrated using logic programming techniques written in PROLOG. Most previous name placement systems are either map specific or have demonstrated only a few aspects of name placement. However two of these systems, which use the rule-based approach for solving the name placement problem, do show greater flexibility. Nevertheless all known results from these seem unsophisticated when compared to many manually produced maps. This thesis describes further research into the use of rule-based systems. The systems described have the capability to handle a wider range of maps of greater complexity. Also described is a procedural program which implements an iterative strategy for name placement on the Ordnance Survey Route Planner map. The research attempts to classify label positions and configurations used on a wide range of maps and discusses ways of implementing these in an automated name placement system. A range of name placement rules are also studied in order to decide what type of data a flexible automated name placement system must be able to access. A combined vector and raster data structure approach is adopted. This supplies the necessary "visual" information needed to apply most of the name placement rules. Name placement and database primitives are used to construct the high level rules which make up the rule-based systems. This work has been undertaken in collaboration with the Ordnance Survey. The procedural name placement program, capable of placing names on the 1:625000 Route Planner map, has been implemented at their headquarters.
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Barrett, Christine. "Navigating Time: Cartographic Narratives in Early Modern English Literature." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10320.
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In the sixteenth century, the cartographic revolution was rapidly changing the experience of everyday life in England. Modes of thinking and inhabiting space (such as astronomy, trigonometry, surveying, and cartography) were advanced and refined, and in England, the map went from rarity to ubiquity in less than seventy years. Navigating Time explores how literary strategies changed in response to this rapid shift in the technology of spatial representation. I consider four epics, the epic being the early modern genre most overtly invested in matters of empire (and thus, in matters of space and history). Building on the insights of the spatial turn in the humanities, I argue that the epic offers a radical critique of the technological innovations of the cartographic revolution and the menace those innovations posed. Alongside this critique, the early modern epic outlined a new poetics centered on navigation. Epics by Holinshed, Spenser, Drayton, and Milton sought to encompass the representational possibilities of the map, but also to highlight and exceed the map's narrative insufficiency. Holinshed's Chronicles reforms the topography of the city, converting its streets and alleys into historical texts and presenting historiography and mapping as competing interpretive frameworks for urban space. The Faerie Queene redefines genre as the conduct of bodies in space, making it thus impossible to fix Faeryland as a mappable terrain, and asserting the continuous interpretation required by allegory against the compression imposed by the map. Drayton's Poly-Olbion seems at first to be a verbal map of Britain, but the poem quietly insists on the power of literature not to mimic but rather to supplant the world it describes, becoming the terrain a map can only represent. Finally, Milton's Paradise Lost creates a form of navigating without a destination, by transforming history into a geographic expanse that cannot be mapped, only wandered.
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Hickey, Mutahar. "A computational approach to the cartographic dot distribution problem." Virtual Press, 1993. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/865937.
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In the field of cartography, there is occasionally a need to create a distribution of dots on a map. These dots should give an impression of the density of some countable object set. This type of map is called a "Dot Distribution Map".Up to the current time, if the dots are to represent reality at all, they have to be placed by hand by a cartographer using a digitizing tablet or other input device. This is due to the fact that a census of a region gives only a total, yet it is known that the densities vary within that region. A cartographer can look at all the data available about a region and then can make judgements about how the densities will change within the region. He then can place dots which represent his interpretation of reality.This thesis states that there exists an algorithm which would assign dots to a map based upon the common belief that the density will gradate smoothly from one region with one census value to another region with a different census value.The approach taken was to relate the Map regions to polygons and to then subdivide the polygons into triangles. These triangles would then be subdivided into six children recursively and the data stored in a hex-tree. This is the current level of development. the next steps will be:Generate a surface above the 2-D map based upon the known input data of counts for the various regions.From the centroid for each existing leaf on the Hex-Tree, find the corresponding Zi value from the surface information. From each of these leaves, recursively subdivide the triangle further until the number of dots indicated by the Zt. value can be placed on the map.Department of Computer Science
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Young, John A. "Effects of automated cartographic generalization on linear map features." Thesis, This resource online, 1991. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-12042009-020010/.
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DeKruger, David 1960. "Automated assistance for delineation of large area cartographic features." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/277973.
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The demand for maps and related cartographic products has increased greatly over the past years. This increase in the demand for cartographic products has greatly increased the work load for the cartographer because current practice requires the cartographer to manually identify and delineate the significant cartographic features from an image. The availability of digital image data has made it possible to use the computer to assist in the extraction and delineation of cartographic features. This research presents one approach to automating the delineation of large area features using neural networks for texture pattern classification.
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Dorling, Daniel. "The visualisation of spatial social structure." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.314753.
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Turner, Erin. "Undergraduate cartographic and Geomatics/GIScience education at North American universities." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape4/PQDD_0018/MQ57691.pdf.
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McConnel, Jonathon L. "U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey nautical charts : a cartographic history /." [Eugene, Or.] : University of Oregon, Dept. of Geography and the Graduate School, 2007. http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/noaa_documents/NOAA_related_docs/McConnel_USCGS_Charts_Thesis.pdf.
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Strandsbjerg, Jeppe. "The Cartographic Reality of Space - Territory, Globalisation & International Relations." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.487562.
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International Relations theory in general, and the globalisation debate in particular, operate with a conception ofspace that contains a number ofproblematic distinctions. Global space and the territorial space of the state are often considered as opposites. Furthermore, the concept of space is predominantly contained within a subject/object distinction which obscures the way in which territory and global space are both 'nature' and 'culture'. In .contrast, this thesis suggests that modem political space is best understood as being based on a cartographic reality established from the 15th to the 17th century. During this period European cartography underwent a transformation establishing a reality of space that conditioned the possibility of developing centralised sovereign territorial states within a unified global framework. This so-calIed modem cartography produced space as an autonomous sphere based on abstract mathematical principles. Through the agency of cartography, space was produced in such a manner that made large scale coordination in, and organisation of, space possible. EmpiricalIy, it is shown how the territorial space of a sovereign state, Denmark, developed in tandem with a coherent global space through a study· of cartographic practice in Europe from 1450-1650. This analysis leads to the conclusion that the notion of globalisation rests on the same spatial reality as that of the state and caution should, therefore, be shown when positing globalisation as a chalIenge to the territorial state system.
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Seo, Young-Woo. "Augmenting Cartographic Resources and Assessing Roadway State for Vehicle Navigation." Research Showcase @ CMU, 2012. http://repository.cmu.edu/dissertations/207.
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Maps are important for both human and robot navigation. Given a route, drivingassistance systems consult maps to guide human drivers to their destinations. Similarly, topological maps of a road network provide a robotic vehicle with information about where it can drive and what driving behaviors it should use. By providing the necessary information about the driving environment, maps simplify both manual and autonomous driving.
The majority of existing cartographic databases are built, using manual surveys and operator interactions, to primarily assist human navigation. Hence, the resolution of existing maps is insufficient for use in robotics applications. Also, the coverage of these maps fails to extend to places where robotics applications require detailed geometric information.
To augment the resolution and coverage of existing maps, this thesis investigates computer vision algorithms to automatically build lane-level detailed maps of highways and parking lots by analyzing publicly available cartographic resources, such as orthoimagery.
Our map-building methods recognize image patterns and objects that are tightly coupled with the structure of the underlying road network by 1) identifying, without human intervention, locally consistent image cues and 2) linking them based on the obtained local evidence and prior information about roadways. We demonstrate the accuracy of our bootstrapping approach in building lane-level detailed roadwaymaps through experiments.
Due to expected abnormal events on highways such as roadwork, the geometry and traffic rules of highways that appear on maps can occasionally change. This thesis also addresses the problem of updating the resulting maps with temporary changes by analyzing perspective imagery acquired from a vision sensor installed on a vehicle.
To robustly recognize highway work zones, our sign recognizer focuses on handling variations of signs’ colors and shapes. Sign recognition errors, which are inevitable, can cause our system to misread temporary highway changes. To handle potential errors, our method utilizes the temporal redundancy of sign occurrences and their corresponding classification decisions. We demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of our approach highway workzone recognition through testing with video data recorded under various weather conditions.
Two major results of this thesis work are 1) algorithms that analyze orthoimages to produce lane-level detailed maps of highways and parking lots and 2) on-vehicle computer vision algorithms that are able to recognize temporary changes on highways. Our maps can provide detailed information about a route, in advance, to either a human driver or a self-driving vehicle. While driving on highways, our roadway-assessing algorithms enable the vehicle to update the resulting maps with temporary changes to the route.
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Turner, Erin Carleton University Dissertation Geography. "Undergraduate cartographic (and geomatics/giscience) education at North American universities." Ottawa, 2000.
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Edmonds, Alan Kirk. "A framework for formal specification of the cartographic user interface." The Ohio State University, 1997. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/39271704.html.
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Gifford, Eric Allan 1965. "Hough transform extraction of cartographic fiducial marks from aerial photography." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/277903.
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Cartographic compilation requires precision mensuration. The calibration of mensuration processes is based on specific fiducials. External fiducials, around the exterior frame of the image, must be precisely measured to establish the overall physical geometry. Internal fiducials are provided within the image by placement of cloth panels on the ground at locations whose position is precisely known. Both types of fiducials must be known within the pixel space of a digitized image in order for the feature extraction process to be accurate with respect to delineated features. Precise mensuration of these fiducials requires that a cartographer view the image on a display and use pointing devices, such as a mouse, to pick the exact point. For accurate fiducial location, the required manual operations can be an added time-consuming task in the feature extraction process. Interactive tools which eliminate the precise pointing action for the operator are described in this thesis. The operator is required only to "box-in" the fiducial, using a simple drawing tool, select the fiducial function, and the software of the tool returns the precise location of the fiducial.
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Passos, Felipe Garcia. "A cartografia digital na geografia escolar brasileira: contexto, características e proposições." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/48/48134/tde-16102017-105903/.
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Ao considerarmos o mapa como linguagem, admitimos que haja implicações no processo de comunicação dependentes do suporte no qual as representações tomam forma. Assim, conforme se avolumam experiências pedagógicas com produtos da cartografia no meio digital, torna-se pertinente a análise dos condicionantes da relação humano-mapa nesse novo contexto. No primeiro capítulo da dissertação, tendo como referência as possibilidades de comunicações ensejadas pelos mapas interativos, é apresentada uma aproximação ao estágio atual da produção intelectual de estudantes, professores e pesquisadores sobre as práticas didáticas com recursos cartográficos digitais no ensino escolar de Geografia no Brasil. Ao final do capítulo, concluímos que, em geral, o uso didático desses recursos não contempla conceitual e metodologicamente as características exclusivas dos mapas interativos. Diante do cenário inicial, procuramos responder duas questões: quais são as propriedades exclusivas do sistema de comunicação nos mapas interativos e por meio de qual concepção de uso didático elas podem potencializar os processos de ensino e de aprendizagem. Para isso, no segundo capítulo são procuradas e descritas as diferenças essenciais da comunicação com os conteúdos no meio digital. Esse trabalho é feito por meio dos conceitos de interatividade e de visualização cartográfica, os quais permitem uma nova condição do estudante diante do mapa. A nova condição, de participação ativa do usuário no processo de comunicação cartográfica, altera o sistema clássico cartógrafo mapa leitor , implicando na necessidade de atualização conceitual e metodológica das práticas cartográficas. A partir do contraste entre as duas partes iniciais, propomos uma apropriação pedagógica do conceito de visualização cartográfica. Tal proposta de apropriação foi usada para desenvolver uma situação de aprendizagem baseada nos princípios teórico-metodológicos da Atividade Orientadora de Ensino, que são descritos no início do terceiro capítulo. Para elaborar a situação de aprendizagem, definimos seu conteúdo de ensino (conceito de orientação espacial) e avaliamos as características do software usado (Google Earth). A escolhe desses elementos se deu a partir do trabalho de observação feito em dois 6º anos, cada um em uma escola municipal de São Paulo. Ao final do terceiro capítulo descrevemos a experiência do pré-teste em uma das escolas, o que nos levou, depois de ajustes, a uma versão final da situação de aprendizagem. No quarto capítulo analisamos qualitativamente o diálogo e uma representação gráfica de um grupo de estudantes. Nossa análise mostra como características próprias de ambientes cartográficos interativos, quando congruentes com uma metodologia fundamentada em princípios dos estudos psicopedagógicos, podem contribuir para que o aluno se aproprie de conteúdos da Geografia escolar.When considering the map as a language we admit that there are implications for the communication process which depend on the means through which the representations take shape. Therefore, as pedagogical experiences pile up with cartography products in digital medium, the analysis of the limitations of digital media in the relationship between human being and map becomes pertinent. The first chapter presents an approach to the current stage of intellectual production of students, teachers and researchers about the didactic practices with digital cartography resources in scholar teaching of geography in Brazil. The possibilities of communications created by interactive maps are taken as a refence in this analysis. At the end of the chapter, we conclude that in general, didactic uses of such resources do not contemplate conceptually and methodologically the exclusive characteristics of interactive maps. Given this scenario, we intended to investigate two themes in the research: a) what the unique properties of the communication system in the interactive maps are, and b) through which concept of didactic use such properties may contribute to the teaching and the learning processes. Towards that aim, in the second chapter, the essential differences of communication with the map contents in the digital medium are sought and described. Concepts of interactivity and cartographic visualization which allow a new condition of the student in front of the map are drawn upon at this stage. The new conditions of the active participation of the user in the cartographic communication process break up with the conventional system cartographer map reader and this break implies a conceptual and methodological update of the cartographic practices. From the contrast between the two initial parts we propose a pedagogical appropriation of cartographic visualization concept. That proposed appropriation was used to develop a learning situation based on the theoretical-methodological principles of the Activity Guide in teaching. These principles are described at the beginning of the third chapter. To develop the learning situation, we define the learning content (concept of spatial orientation) and evaluate the characteristics of the software used (Google Earth). The choice of these elements spawned from the observation of two 6th year classes each from a different school in São Paulo city. At the end of the third chapter we describe the experience of pre-testing of the didactic situation at one of the schools. The final version of the learning situation was developed from the pre-testing and its adjustment. In the fourth chapter we analyze qualitatively the dialogue and graphic representation from a group of students. Our analysis shows how characteristics of interactive maps, when congruent with a methodology based on the principles of psycho-pedagogical studies can help the student to appropriate of the geographic school content.
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Gilbreath, Donna Arlene. "PROJECTING THE RESULTS OF STATE SMOKING BAN INITIATIVES USING CARTOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS." UKnowledge, 2007. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/gradschool_theses/453.
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Because tobacco smoking causes 430,000 U.S. deaths annually, wide-reaching smoking bans are needed. Bans reduce cigarette consumption, encourage cessation, protect nonsmokers from second-hand smoke, and promote an attitude that smoking is undesirable. Therefore, bans may prevent future generations from suffering many smoking-related health problems. The federal government has not implemented widereaching smoking bans so it falls on individual states, counties, or communities to devise appropriate smoking policy. To date, smoking policy has been determined by legislators, who may have conflicts that prevent them from acting in the publics best interest. However, this method of implementing smoking policy may be changing. In 2005, Washington residents voted by ballot initiative to strengthen existing state smoking regulations. In 2006, Arizona, Nevada, and Ohio residents voted by ballot initiatives to implement strict statewide smoking bans. This research presents a way to predict how residents of other states might vote if given the opportunity. Two research hypotheses are tested and accepted: a positive relationship between favorable votes and urbanness, and a preference favoring smoking bans where smoking regulations already exist. Finally, a projection is made that a smoking ban vote in Kentucky would yield favorable results, and a map showing projected county votes is provided.
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Richard, Gina Dawn. "Radical Cartographies: Relational Epistemologies and Principles for Successful Indigenous Cartographic Praxis." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/578886.
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Indigenous cartography is based on a relational epistemology that works within a system where "place" and "ways of knowing" are intimately tied to Native communities' notions of kinship, oral tradition, and traditional ecological knowledge acquired over the millennia. It brings to life a place where mapping and geography cease to be simply Cartesian coordinates on a Euclidean plane and instead become storied landscapes. Indigenous cartography can be described as "radical" because it represents a departure from traditional Western ways of mapping and affirms an Indigenous political, economic and cultural sovereignty. As an intensely political act, Indigenous cartography can be an important tool used by Indigenous people to assert sovereignty in a bottom-up approach to land claims, in the management of cultural resources, and even to claim human remains for repatriation and reburial. If Indigenous groups wish to successfully utilize geospatial technologies as legal strategies, it will first require the development of the necessary infrastructure and training of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) specialists from within. In much the same way that colonial practices of the past worked to achieve hegemony through the making of political and cultural boundaries, Indigenous cartography can work to dismantle these same colonial boundaries. A theory and methodology of Indigenous cartographic praxis is in use among some First Nations in British Columbia. However no "best practices" yet exist for the Indigenous use-and-mapping discipline. Consequently in the United States, Indigenous mapping is still considered an emerging approach. Therefore, can American Indian political and cultural sovereignty be supported by the implementation of Indigenous geospatial technologies? This dissertation will examine the British Columbian model and distill principles that can be successfully implemented by U. S. Native American communities who wish to develop capacity for this emerging geospatial technology based on the success of the First Nations model.
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Mackaness, William Alfred. "Knowledge-based resolution of spatial conflicts in digital map design." Thesis, Kingston University, 1988. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/20517/.
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Previous research has indicated an increasing need for intelligent automated design. The contention of this project is that Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) techniques can be used to mimic the process of map design in cartography. A suitable environment for such a map system is considered. Attention is focused on methods for identifying and resolving conflicts that occur when spatial data are displayed using cartographic techniques. The research attempts to find a suitable mechanism for describing and identifying spatial conflicts and serves to focus attention on exactly what makes good map design. It appears that human judgement of design requires the understanding of the map as a whole and is based on geographical knowledge and an understanding of spatial processes. This is in addition to the knowledge of design and perception of maps. An appropriate method of description enables evaluation and assessment of the graphic. The potential spatial conflicts that can occur in a map, along with possible solutions for resolving those conflicts, are identified. Automated techniques were devised for identifying features in proximity and resolving those clusters by application of cartographic license (localized feature displacement). Following from this the knowledge governing the use of all generalization techniques is identified and explicitly itemized. A suitable taxonomy of rules is investigated and the knowledge implemented in a rule based system called CLARITY. The rules base contains over one hundred rules. The results and evaluation of the implementation, together with suggested further work conclude this project.
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Cecconi, Alessandro. "Integration of cartographic generalization and multi-scale databases for enhanced web mapping /." Zürich, 2003. http://e-collection.ethbib.ethz.ch/show?type=extdiss&nr=6.
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Dykes, Jason. "Interactive maps for exploratory spatial analysis : cartographic visualization approach, implementation and application." Thesis, University of Leicester, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/30423.
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One of the primary reasons for this technology-induced change is that highly dynamic maps are being used increasingly across the sciences as tools through which initial exploratory analyses of geographic information can be made in a process termed 'visualization'. Maps are no longer used solely to record information and communicate summaries to large audiences. The dynamic and highly interactive software descendants of the paper maps of the previous decade form an active part in the process of knowledge acquisition and are changing the way in which science is undertaken. They are used by highly skilled individuals to determine patterns and elicit trends from huge, complex and growing databases of spatial information. The work presented here describes research efforts undertaken to develop generally applicable new methods through which the techniques derived for the cartography of the past can be effectively applied to the map use of the present and future. It makes the case for an approach to visualization that synthesises techniques developed in a number of fields. It utilises cartographic symbolism in a two-dimensional software environment through which maps can be produced that contain high levels of interaction and flexibility. The argument is supported at three levels: An approach is presented that makes imaginative and innovative use of a scripting language for graphical user interface production, in order to provide an environment for visualization; Working software that implements the approach in order to address issues concerned with the analysis of enumerated spatial information is then provided and detailed; This is then applied to a number of scenarios in which visualization is undertaken, and to address evolving research issues of concern to the cartographic and statistical communities. Finally assessments are made of the usage and utility of the methods presented and some extensions are both suggested and offered. The changes to cartography that occur in the next decade are likely to be just as profound as those experienced in the past decade. The realm of cartography continues to expand, as do the types of map that are achievable, the applications to which maps are put and the numbers of map users. An assessment is made of likely trends and ways in which the approach presented can provide a useful contribution to the future of cartographic visualization. Interactive software, dynamic figures and computer scripts provided in separate appendices form a major element of the work, in terms of the illustration, demonstration and specification of the methods used.
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Wallace, Belinda Deneen. "Cartographic memories and geographies of pain bodily representations in Caribbean women's art /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/4097.
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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2006.Thesis research directed by: Comparative Literature. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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POTTER, Simon. "Publicly Displayed Maps in Chikusa-ku, Nagoya: Samples of Japanese Cartographic Art." 名古屋大学大学院国際言語文化研究科, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/10088.
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Gould, Nicholas Mark. "Formalising cartographic generalisation knowledge in an ontology to support on-demand mapping." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2014. http://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/344342/.
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This thesis proposes that on-demand mapping - where the user can choose the geographic features to map and the scale at which to map them - can be supported by formalising, and making explicit, cartographic generalisation knowledge in an ontology. The aim was to capture the semantics of generalisation, in the form of declarative knowledge, in an ontology so that it could be used by an on-demand mapping system to make decisions about what generalisation algorithms are required to resolve a given map condition, such as feature congestion, caused by a change in scale. The lack of a suitable methodology for designing an application ontology was identified and remedied by the development of a new methodology that was a hybrid of existing domain ontology design methodologies. Using this methodology an ontology that described not only the geographic features but also the concepts of generalisation such as geometric conditions, operators and algorithms was built. A key part of the evaluation phase of the methodology was the implementation of the ontology in a prototype on-demand mapping system. The prototype system was used successfully to map road accidents and the underlying road network at three different scales. A major barrier to on-demand mapping is the need to automatically provide parameter values for generalisation algorithms. A set of measure algorithms were developed to identify the geometric conditions in the features, caused by a change in scale. From this a Degree of Generalisation (DoG) is calculated, which represents the “amount” of generalisation required. The DoG is used as an input to a number of bespoke generalisation algorithms. In particular a road network pruning algorithm was developed that respected the relationship between accidents and road segments. The development of bespoke algorithms is not a sustainable solution and a method for employing the DoG concept with existing generalisation algorithms is required. Consideration was given to how the ontology-driven prototype on-demand mapping system could be extended to use cases other than mapping road accidents and a need for collaboration with domain experts on an ontology for generalisation was identified. Although further testing using different uses cases is required, this work has demonstrated that an ontological approach to on-demand mapping has promise.
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Forrest, David. "The application of expert systems to small scale map design." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.284711.
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He, Fei. "Novel drawing algorithms and application of texture mapping for 2D cartographic line symbolization /." Zürich : ETH, 2008. http://e-collection.ethbib.ethz.ch/show?type=diss&nr=17439.
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Tullis, John R. "Outline panoramas in the multimedia age : an evaluation of a neglected cartographic genre." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.546541.
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Rybaczuk, Krysia. "Error processes in the integration of digital cartographic data in geographic information systems." Thesis, Durham University, 1992. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/6210/.
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Errors within a Geographic Information System (GIS) arise from several factors. In the first instance receiving data from a variety of different sources results in a degree of incompatibility between such information. Secondly, the very processes used to acquire the information into the GIS may in fact degrade the quality of the data. If geometric overlay (the very raison d'etre of many GISs) is to be performed, such inconsistencies need to be carefully examined and dealt with. A variety of techniques exist for the user to eliminate such problems, but all of these tend to rely on the geometry of the information, rather than on its meaning or nature. This thesis explores the introduction of error into GISs and the consequences this has for any subsequent data analysis. Techniques for error removal at the overlay stage are also examined and improved solutions are offered. Furthermore, the thesis also looks at the role of the data model and the potential detrimental effects this can have, in forcing the data to be organised into a pre-defined structure.
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Luebbering, Candice Rae. "The Cartographic Representation of Language: Understanding language map construction and visualizing language diversity." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/37543.
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Language maps provide illustrations of linguistic and cultural diversity and distribution, appearing in outlets ranging from textbooks and news articles to websites and wall maps. They are valuable visual aids that accompany discussions of our cultural climate. Despite the prevalent use of language maps as educational tools, little recent research addresses the difficult task of map construction for this fluid cultural characteristic. The display and analysis capabilities of current geographic information systems (GIS) provide a new opportunity for revisiting and challenging the issues of language mapping. In an effort to renew language mapping research and explore the potential of GIS, this dissertation is composed of three studies that collectively present a progressive work on language mapping. The first study summarizes the language mapping literature, addressing the difficulties and limitations of assigning language to space before describing contemporary language mapping projects as well as future research possibilities with current technology. In an effort to identify common language mapping practices, the second study is a map survey documenting the cartographic characteristics of existing language maps. The survey not only consistently categorizes language map symbology, it also captures unique strategies observed for handling locations with linguistic plurality as well as representing language data uncertainty. A new typology of language map symbology is compiled based on the map survey results. Finally, the third study specifically addresses two gaps in the language mapping literature: the issue of visualizing linguistic diversity and the scarcity of GIS applications in language mapping research. The study uses census data for the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Statistical Area to explore visualization possibilities for representing the linguistic diversity. After recreating mapping strategies already in use for showing linguistic diversity, the study applies an existing statistic (a linguistic diversity index) as a new mapping variable to generate a new visualization type: a linguistic diversity surface. The overall goal of this dissertation is to provide the impetus for continued language mapping research and contribute to the understanding and creation of language maps in education, research, politics, and other venues.Ph. D.
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Glavin, Stephen John Carleton University Dissertation Geography. "Creating sound symbols from digital terrain models; an exploration of cartographic communication forms." Ottawa, 1987.
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Hanson, Laura Jacquelyn. "Cartographic criminology : an assessment and proposal for an integrated approach to crime mapping." Thesis, University of Kent, 2015. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/49514/.
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To inform an emerging cartographic criminology, this thesis considers cartographic and geographic literatures that are not often present in criminological research. It offers both an historical overview of the way crime has traditionally been mapped within criminological discourse; and a critical review of contemporary crime mapping as an empirical criminological practice. It argues that contemporary "geographies of crime" are too often constructed in very abstract and dehumanising ways. As a result, they obfuscate and thus hamper our true understanding of the spatial dimension of crime. Cartographic criminology reconciles the relevant literatures in several vast disciplines (cartography, geography, criminology, and sociology) to address the growing use of crime and crime control maps. Focus is placed on dozens of different types of maps as case studies in this thesis to assist in developing a critical understanding of the many roles maps play, along with their consequences. By exploring these literatures and emphasising imagination in the mapping of deviance, crime, and control, cartographic criminology (re)imagines ways maps inform and shape our criminological knowledge. Cartographic criminology undertakes conventional criminology’s failure to critique its employment of crime maps and the consequences of their publications. This thesis values the multitudes and significance of maps and assembles interdisciplinary knowledge to strengthen its mission. This thesis establishes a fundamental appreciation of cartography by offering a brief review of cartography and identifying the insights that this field offers as a framework for situating crime maps. Additionally, it offers an overview of criminology’s engagement with maps and demonstrates the discipline’s failure to engage with the maps that are so often used. Various branches of geography (social, political, and cultural) inform the remaining chapters which focus on maps depicting a variety of criminal and deviant activity, the acquisition of the maps, and the general consequences of their use.
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Oliveira, Thomaz Alvisi de [UNESP]. "Compartimentação fisiográfica aplicada à avaliação de terrenos - subsídio ao planejamento territorial do município de Cananéia - SP." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/92834.
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oliveira_ta_me_rcla.pdf: 6142759 bytes, checksum: 5baadd733a250040a3e98d3c3bcb1862 (MD5)Uma das formas de se estudar o meio físico é compartimentá-lo, separando-o em áreas homólogas, o que permite a síntese das informações, agrupando-as dentro dessas áreas. Esse trabalho teve como objetivo obter informações do terreno através da compartimentação fisiográfica em imagem de satélite, visando o planejamento territorial do município de Cananéia, litoral sul do estado de São Paulo. A metodologia empregada, utiliza como base uma imagem Landsat 7 ETM+, e consiste na identificação de divisões fisiográficas em diferentes níveis hierárquicos de classificação. A análise dos elementos texturais de relevo e drenagem, junto com informações referentes aos mapeamentos geológicos e geomorfológicos já existentes, orientaram o processo de identificação dos compartimentos. Este método permite elaborar um produto cartográfico único, a partir da integração dos elementos constituintes do meio físico em Unidades Básicas de Compartimentação (UBCs). Essa técnica de compartimentação, apoiada por descrições de campo facilitou o estabelecimento de características fisiográficas e possibilitou estender as considerações aos diversos compartimentos. Assim, obteve-se um documento cartográfico contendo informações sobre características geotécnicas do município de Cananéia - SP, que podem servir de base para trabalhos voltados ao planejamento territorial.
One way to study the physical world is to compartmentalize it, separating it into homologous areas that permit the generalization of information, synthesizing the information within these areas. This work had the objective of obtaining terrain information by means of compartmentalizing the physiographic properties through satellite images, specifically looking at the planning of the municipality of Cananéia, along the southern coast of São Paulo State. The methodology consisted of utilizing a image of Landsat 7ETM+ and the identification of physiographic divisions in hierarchical levels of classification. The analysis of textural elements of relief and drainage, together with information referring to geomorphologic and geologic maps done by other agencies, oriented the process of compartment identification. This method, permits the elaboration of a single cartographic product, following the integration of constituent elements of the area in Basic Units of Compartmentalization (UBC's). This technique of compartmentalization, calibrated by field descriptions facilitated the establishment of fisiographic characteristics and made it possible to extend the considerations to diverse compartments. In this way, one obtains a cartographic document containing information about the geotecnical characteristics of Cananéia - SP municipality, that can serve as a base for projects associated with territorial planning.