Understanding Different Geographies

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kriz, Karel. (Editor), Cartwright, William. (Editor), Kinberger, Michaela. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography,
• Subjects: Geography.; Geographical information systems.; Geographical Information Systems/Cartography.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29770-0

This book collects revised versions of papers first delivered at the Understanding Different Geographies Symposium held in Puchberg am Schneeberg, Austria in 2011.� The Symposium focussed on Communicating Meaning with [Geo]Graphic Artefacts .� The general topics of the chapters cover: - Exploring...

Table of Contents:

• From the Contents: Maps and Design
• Cartography utilizing Geo-Communication
• Understanding different geographies: the case for drawings and sketches
• Artefacts and geospaces
• Understanding Artefacts through Geographies  Perceiving Geographies through Artefacts
• Harriet Edquist and Lisa Byrne: Understanding Place
• When countries become gods  some thoughts on the geospatial aspect of deities and demons in India
• Exhibitions and Geospace
• Potential Information Gains for Exhibition Makers and their audience in Mapping the Movement of Objects
• Representations and Geospace
• The Geography of Uncertainty: Outcomes Spaces and Uncertainty Visualization.