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    Computer cartography (also called digital cartography) is the art, science, and technology of making and using maps with a computer. This technology represents...
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    contributions to computer cartography and was one of the first geographers to explore using computers in geography. In cartography, he contributed to...
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    technology have led to further revolution in cartography. Specifically computer hardware devices such as computer screens, plotters, printers, scanners (remote...
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    Cartography (/kɑːrˈtɒɡrəfi/; from Ancient Greek: χάρτης chartēs, 'papyrus, sheet of paper, map'; and γράφειν graphein, 'write') is the study and practice...
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    Chinese cartography began in the 5th century BC during the Warring States period when cartographers started to make maps of the Earth's surface. Its scope...
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    problems rather than create original innovations, such as using computers to aid in cartography. They also explore adapting techniques developed for one area...
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    Medieval Islamic geography and cartography refer to the study of geography and cartography in the Muslim world during the Islamic Golden Age (variously...
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    phenomena, such as crustal motion, oceanic tides, and polar motion), cartography, geographical information science (GIS) and remote sensing (the short...
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  • local gravity was attempted to be explained through a hypothesis that used computer simulations and seismic data. The gravity anomaly, or "gravity hole", is...
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    geographer Strabo's Geographika, compiled almost 2000 years ago. As cartography developed, geographers illuminated many aspects used today in the field;...
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    Satirical cartography is a form of art, exposing stereotypes and political messages with comical geopolitical illustrations. Satirical cartography dates back...
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    paper detailing the use of computers in map creation. This was the beginning of computer cartography, or the use of computers to create maps. In 1960, the...
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    fundamental themes in traditional spatially oriented fields such as geography, cartography, and geodesy, while incorporating more recent developments in cognitive...
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  • Volume Cartography is a computer program for locating and mapping 2-dimensional surfaces within a 3-dimensional object. X-rays can reveal minute details...
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    1997 and 2004. Dodge identified "electronic places" that exist behind the computer screen as part of such geography. "Space" in this case is said to be produced...
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  • geographic information system Computer cartography, the art, science, and technology of making and using maps with a computer Web mapping, the process of...
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    maps are a key tool. Classical cartography has been joined by a more modern approach to geographical analysis, computer-based geographic information systems...
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    in Modern Geography – Series of geography texts, 1975–1996 History of cartography – Evolution of the art and science of mapmaking Neogeography – Amateur-focused...
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  • Mark Monmonier (category Historians of cartography)
    book Computer-Assisted Cartography: Principles and Prospects was the first commercial textbook on using computers in the cartographic process. In another...
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    their environment. Vidalian geopolitics is based on varied forms of cartography and on possibilism (founded on a societal approach of geography—i.e....
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