Typographic Requirements of Cartography A Preliminary Note

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This paper, presented at the Society's Annual Technical Symposium held at Cambridge University in September 1972, summarises the results of a market survey conducted in 1970. Map ownership and usage are discussed and some conclusions are drawn as to possible future trends.     

The Representation of Disputed Political Boundaries in General Atlases

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The extremely complex problems of boundary representation in general atlases are critically examined by a Lecturer in Geography at University College, London. The paper is based on that given in Section IX, Cartography, at the International Geographical Congress, London 1964.     

Some Technical and Economic Limitations of Cartographic Colour Representation on Land Use Maps

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Some problems of land use map production are analysed in the general context of colour cartography by a Senior Lecturer in Geography, King's College, University of London, who is also Director of the Second Land Utilisation Survey of Britain.     

Maps for Planning

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Maps play an important part in planning at national, regional and local levels. This role should increase ill the future as greater use is made of computers.

This paper was presented to the annual Symposium of the Society in September 1970, at the University of Bristol.     

Technical Problems on Thematic Mapping

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This careful analysis of the nature of thematic mapping, and a demonstration of an unusual technical process, is contributed by a staff member of the Department of Geography, University of Washington, Seattle.     

From Base Map to Master Plan

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The role played maps in the planning of MiltonKeynes is described in this paper. MiltonKeynes is the latest of the new generation of New Towns in the United Kingdom.

This paper was presented by the annual Symposium of the Society in September 1970 at the University of Bristol.     

Post-war Progress in Cartography in the Federal Republic of Germany

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The author spent six years in Germany as Geographic Attache to the United States Embassy in Bonn. His contacts with the cartographic industry resulted in this appraisal of German cartography. He is now Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, University of Nebraska.     

TRAVERSE REDUCTION WITH AN ELECTRONIC DIGITAL COMPUTER

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The article describes work carried out by the authors on the Manchester Universal Digital Computer at Manchester University. The general characteristics of the computer are discussed. The requirements for traverse reduction for Ordnance Survey work are summarised, with the help of a specific example. The technique required to present the details of a traverse to a computer for reduction is then described, and some details of the operation of the programme are given. The article is concluded with some details of the time taken to carry out the reduction, and remarks about special features of computer design which would have proved advantageous for this work.     

Maps as Knowledge Aggregators: from Renaissance Italy Fra Mauro to Web Search Engines

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For many years geological students have been graduating from universities with little knowledge of how to use the cartographic language of line, letter, symbol and tone by which the distribution and spatial arrangement of earth science data can be best expressed. The author discusses the development of the teaching of geological cartography in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Leeds. Details of this innovation are set against the background of data obtained from a recent questionnaire on the practice of cartography as a discipline in departments of geology in British universities.     

A NOVEL METHOD OF MEASURING THE COEFFICIENT OF THERMAL EXPANSION OF INVAR

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In a letter published in a recent issue of Nature, Prof. L. F. Bates and Mr J. C. Wilson, of University College, Nottingham, have described a new and novel method of determining the coefficient of thermal expansion of invar. Although this method is hardly likely to be applied to the measurement of the coefficient of expansion of long invar tapes, such as are used by surveyors, yet it is so novel and ingenious in itself that a short reference to it may not be out of place in this Review. One extremely interesting thing about it is that no measurements of a length, or of changes of length, are involved.     

Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs), GIS,and Remote Sensing: The West Virginia University Example

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Remote sensing and geographic information system (GIS) scientists and educators in general are utilizing global web sources for information of the latest developments in the use of satellite and GIS approaches, as well as to understand more fully environmental and natural resources processes in various geographic settings. West Virginia University (WVU) has embarked on a pioneering approach (as only the second university worldwide) to archive graduate theses and dissertations in electronic format with worldwide web access. This study illustrates the type of remote sensing and GIS research available through WVU's worldwide web ETD archive, and its potential uses by educators at a variety of levels of the education system for understanding remote sensing and GIS methodologies, as well as environmental and natural resource processes. Keywords: Geographic Information Systems (GIS), remote sensing, West Virginia University, Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD).     

UNITS OF LENGTH AND AREA,III

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In two papers on this subject (v, 34, 236, and vi, 40, 85) some difficulties were examined and missing evidence explored. Reference was made to the past existence of divers acres in the British Isles. In a lecture by Professor A. E. Snape, M.SC., on “Our Units of Measurement”, delivered at the University of Cape Town and printed in the South African Survey Journal (III, Part viii, 24, 340, 1930), some other units are considered and additional evidence adduced. For example, the Cheshire acre is given as 2.11 statute acres.     

THE TRAINING OF AFRICAN SURVEYORS IN NIGERIA

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Whenever the Government wants to receive new students to be trained as surveyors for the Government Service it is usual for the public to be informed by means of a Gazette Notice outlining the conditions of entry into the Survey School which is attached to the Land and Survey Department. Nowadays students are admitted through the Government Higher College at Yaba by means of the Entrance Examination of that college. It is one of the conditions that before a candidate applies to take this Entrance Examination he must have passed his Cambridge School Certificate Examination, the Matriculation Examination of any British University, or its local equivalent, and must possess also a certificate of character.     

AIR SURVEY: THE RAND METHOD OF HEIGHTING FROM NEAR VERTICAL PHOTOGRAPHS

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The method outlined below is a simple and rapid method, requiring no expensive equipment, of obtaining true heights from pairs of near vertical air photographs with a minimum of ground control. It is a direct application of the Fourcade theorem and, as it was finally developed at the University of the Witwatersrand in 1948-49, it has been given the name “Rand method” in the hope that this will connect it with Dr. Fourcade's country.     

A Rich Encounter: Reflections of a Student

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The author, who was John Keates' first full-time graduate student, reflects on his early years in Glasgow University learning about cartography. His mentor not only provided training and education, but inspired him to investigate, through stimulation of curiosity and experience of the inevitable associated frustrations, some of the most exciting practical and artistic techniques of the subject. Closely integrated (and essential to effective design) were the associated challenges to seek fundamental understanding of cartography, and this has process has continued.     

THE INTERNATIONAL UNION OF GEODESY AND GEOPHYSICS, 1948

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The 8th general assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (lUGG) took place in Oslo by invitation of the Norwegian National Committee. A considerable number of delegates had arrived by the 17th August, for which day preliminary meetings of the Executive Committees and Councils of the Union and of the several Associations were arranged. The formal opening in the Aula of Oslo University began at 10.30 on the 19th. It was honoured by the presence of H.M. the King of Norway.     

Editorial

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In different scientific fields, the abbreviation ‘3D’ is used in a multitude of ways. Hence, one might easily lose track of what 3D means in a particular context. 3D is just a generic term which the authors are trying to classify into different groups. An overview of the technical status of 3D technologies serves to explain the importance of the three-dimensionality in cartography. Solid landscape embodiments as well as pseudo-three-dimensional and truly three-dimensional autostereoscopic visualisations on planar displays are treated. Starting with the reasons for the advantages and the necessities for true-3D representations the article deals with the classification and explanation of the different true-3D visualisation techniques so far materialized for geodata, in particular at the Institute for Cartography of the Dresden University of Technology.