History of Cartography - International Symposium of the ICA, 2012

This volume collects 22 papers presented at the 4th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography, held at Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary, on 28-29 June 2012. The overall conference theme is 'Exploration - Discovery - Cartography', but preference has been given to papers dealing with cartography in the 19th and 20th centuries. The papers are classified according to regional sub-themes, i.e. papers on the Americas, papers on Africa, etc.

List of contents

Redefining Imperial Borders: Marking the Eastern Border of the Habsburg Monarchy in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century.- Exploring and mapping the Danube: Reading a hydrographical map of Buda and Pest (1833).- Saxony's role in the measurement of the Central European Meridian Arc as an international geodetic project since 1862.- Media-related Aspects of Popularization: The Geographical Serials from the Publishing Houses of Friedrich Justin Bertuch.- Exploring along the Rome Meridian - Roger Boscovich and the First Modern Map of the Papal States.- The Mineral Maps of L. F. Marsigli and the Mystery of a Mine Map.- The long life of a 1:200 000 map of Central Europe and the Balkans.- Villages, Actors of Local Cartography? The Cadastral Maps of the Banat (1772-79).- The Historical Evolution of Craiova Municipality (Romania) Results from the Analysis of Cartographic Documents.- A Brief History of the Boundary Mapping Between Indonesia and Timor-Leste.- Colonial Powers and Geographic Naming -A Case study of Orchid Island (Lanyu), Taiwan.

Summary

This volume collects 22 papers presented at the 4th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography, held at Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary, on 28-29 June 2012. The overall conference theme is 'Exploration - Discovery - Cartography', but preference has been given to papers dealing with cartography in the 19th and 20th centuries.  The papers are classified according to regional sub-themes, i.e. papers on the Americas, papers on Africa, etc.

Product details

• Assisted by: Pete Collier (Editor), Peter Collier (Editor), Zsolt Gyözö Török (Editor), Elri Liebenberg (Editor), Zsolt Gyozo Torok (Editor), Zsolt Gyözö Török (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2015
• EAN: 9783642427947
• ISBN: 978-3-642-42794-7
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 234 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 534 g
• Illustrations: IX, 336 p.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography; Publications of the International Cartographic Association (ICA); Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography; Publications of the International Cartographic Association (ICA)
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; B, Earth and Environmental Science, Geographical Information Systems/Cartography, Geographical Information System, Geographical information systems, International Symposium of the ICA 2012, ICA 2012