Collaborative Research on the History of Cartography

该项目将产生一系列关于二十世纪地图学历史的探索性论文，这些论文将成为《地图学历史》第六卷的基础，这是一部多卷的参考著作，介绍了地图学在技术、文化和社会背景下的历史。 由于很少有关于20世纪的二手文献，主要研究人员将指导从2000年夏季的一次会议上的“研究建议征集”中选出的11位学者的研究，在这次会议上，将评估与第六卷密切相关的可用资料的类型和问题的种类。这些作者将出席一个正式的专业会议，会上将于2002年夏季提交根据他们的研究结果编写的论文。这次会议发表的会议记录将于2003年在一家主要杂志的特刊上发表，将成为第六卷中更大和更全面的章节的基础。研究将集中在二十世纪制图学的关键技术发展上。这些主题为信息科学的许多方面提供了试金石：信息收集（测量，全球定位系统，航空摄影，遥感），计算机基础设施和图形设计，以及获取地理空间信息（地图和地理信息科学图书馆）。伴随着这些技术变革而来的是许多社会问题，这些问题塑造了制图技术，并被制图技术所塑造。在我们试图从学术和实践两方面理解个人和社会的世界观时，它们是不可或缺的。它们是人类认知和交流史上的重要篇章，在组织地理知识和可视化地理数据模式方面至关重要。 地图是空间洞察力的基本科学来源之一。

This project will produce a series of exploratory papers on the history of twentieth-century cartography that will form the foundation of Volume Six of The History of Cartography, a multi-volume reference work of the history of mapping in its technological, cultural, and social contexts. Since very little secondary literature has been written on the twentieth century, the principal investigators will direct the research of eleven scholars chosen from a "Call for Research Proposals" for a conference in Summer 2000, at which the types of available sources and the kinds of issues germane to Volume Six will be evaluated. These authors will attend a formal professional meeting at which finished papers based on their findings will be presented in summer 2002. The published proceedings resulting from this meeting-to appear in 2003 in a special double issue of a leading journal-will form the basis of much larger and more fully developed chapters in Volume Six.The research will focus on key technological developments in cartography during the twentieth century. These themes provide a touchstone for many aspects of information science: in information gathering (surveying, global positioning systems, aerial photography, remote sensing), in computer infrastructure and graphic design, and in the access to geospatial information (in map and geographic information science libraries). Alongside these technological changes are many social issues that have shaped cartographic technology and have been shaped by it. Maps are used more widely now than in any other time in history. They are indispensable in our attempts to understand the world views of individuals and societies in both academic and practical senses. They are an important chapter in the history of human cognition and communication, and they are essential in organizing geographical knowledge and in visualizing patterns in geographical data. Maps are one of science's basic sources for spatial insight.