https://cartographicperspectives.org/index.php/journal/issue/feedCartographic Perspectives2024-12-09T13:45:36-08:00James Thatcherthatchja@oregonstate.eduOpen Journal Systems<p><em>Cartographic Perspectives</em> (<em>CP</em>) is the <strong>platinum</strong> <strong>open access</strong> journal of the North American Cartographic Information Society (<a href="http://www.nacis.org/index.cfm?x=1">NACIS</a>) and is devoted to the study and practice of Cartography in all of its diversity. <em>CP</em> is published three times a year and includes peer-reviewed research on Cartography and Geovisualization (broadly defined), technical notes and tutorials on new methods, articles on library collections, reviews of books and atlases, and novel maps. All submitted articles are reviewed and returned to authors within <strong>6-8 weeks</strong>. In the past three years, <em>CP </em>has an average rejection rate of 65%. 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It's that easy!</p> <p>Please direct any questions to: Jim Thatcher, Editor | jethatch at uw dot edu.</p>https://cartographicperspectives.org/index.php/journal/article/view/1923Review of The Art of Insight: How Great Visualization Designers Think2024-06-10T08:47:49-07:00Lily Houtmancp@nacis.org2024-06-10T00:00:00-07:00Copyright (c) 2024 Lily Houtmanhttps://cartographicperspectives.org/index.php/journal/article/view/1925Review of Buffalo in 50 Maps2024-07-05T14:49:26-07:00Kimberly L. Campbellcp@nacis.org2024-07-05T00:00:00-07:00Copyright (c) 2024 Kimberly L. Campbellhttps://cartographicperspectives.org/index.php/journal/article/view/1937Review of The National Atlas of Korea for Children2024-08-13T21:19:59-07:00Aimée C. Quinncp@nacis.org2024-08-13T00:00:00-07:00Copyright (c) 2024 Aimée C. Quinnhttps://cartographicperspectives.org/index.php/journal/article/view/1949The Map on your Map: Ten Things to Consider When Making A Locator Map2024-12-09T09:23:49-08:00Vicky Johnson-Dahlvicky@vickyjohnsondahl.com2024-12-09T00:00:00-08:00Copyright (c) 2024 Vicky Johnson-Dahlhttps://cartographicperspectives.org/index.php/journal/article/view/1955About the Cover2024-12-09T13:44:28-08:00Caroline Rosecp@nacis.org2024-12-09T00:00:00-08:00Copyright (c) 2024 Caroline Rosehttps://cartographicperspectives.org/index.php/journal/article/view/1953Masthead2024-12-09T13:43:45-08:00About CPcp@nacis.org2024-12-09T00:00:00-08:00Copyright (c) 2024 About CPhttps://cartographicperspectives.org/index.php/journal/article/view/1951Letter from the Editor2024-12-09T13:42:32-08:00Jim Thatchercp@nacis.org2024-12-09T00:00:00-08:00Copyright (c) 2024 Jim Thatcherhttps://cartographicperspectives.org/index.php/journal/article/view/1881How Did Early Modern Scholars Study Early Maps?2024-06-13T10:01:38-07:00Matthew H Edneymatthew.edney@maine.edu<p>Skelton (1972), followed by Harley (1987), invented “the history of cartography” as a field of study with deep historical roots, giving the field an origin deep in the Renaissance, perhaps even in the Middle Ages. In doing so, Skelton imposed modern scholarly practices onto early modern scholarship, without regard for contemporary knowledge practices. This essay counters the invented tradition by exploring how early modern scholars engaged with maps from the contemporary past (“early maps”). It identifies three distinct sets of scholars whose variant agendas led them to work with early maps in markedly different ways. First, Classical historians used the Peutinger map and Ptolemy’s Geography to identify locations of ancient places to improve their comprehension of Classical texts. Second, some geographers wrote histories of voyages and travels that related past routes to contemporary maps, and others wrote historical narratives of the compilation of encyclopedic texts and maps of world and regional knowledge. (This analysis requires a reconceptualization of early modern “geography.”) Third, antiquaries opportunistically described and at times reproduced a variety of maps, charts, and plans that came to their attention, but without actively searching for early maps. Overall, this essay demonstrates that before 1775 there was neither a systematic approach taken to the study of early maps nor any hint of the core methodology that would be adopted by the first historiographical mode of map history as it developed after 1830.</p>2024-09-23T00:00:00-07:00Copyright (c) 2024 Matthew H Edneyhttps://cartographicperspectives.org/index.php/journal/article/view/1879Is it a Map? The Map / Not Map Question2024-07-31T08:28:28-07:00Mark Denilmark_denil_maps@hotmail.com<p class="p1"><em>This paper is an evaluation of the issues raised in my own “Making Explicit What has Been Implicit: A Call for a Conceptual Theory of Cartography,” and Matthew Edney’s “Making Explicit the Implicit, Idealized Understanding of ‘Map’ and ‘Cartography’: An Anti-Universalist Response to Mark Denil” (both published in Cartographic Perspectives 98, 2022).</em></p> <p class="p1"><em>In the first of these articles I make some proposals about how to go about investigating how a map reader decides that a given artifact is a map, and what that decision means for the user’s relationship with the artifact. In the second, Edney vigorously rejects my argument as, variously: irrelevant, reactionary, subversive, pernicious, obvious, and trite.</em></p> <p class="p1"><em>What are Edney and I arguing about? Does the map / not map question I raise even exist and, if so, does it matter? Is Edney correct in dismissing it, and are his reasons for dismissing it valid?</em></p> <p class="p1"><em>This paper examines some of the salient points raised in the Denil / Edney controversy, with an eye to the pragmatic, real-world ramifications of each writer’s positions.</em></p>2024-12-09T00:00:00-08:00Copyright (c) 2024 Mark Denilhttps://cartographicperspectives.org/index.php/journal/article/view/1957Instructions to Authors2024-12-09T13:45:36-08:00Author Instructionscp@nacis.org2024-12-09T00:00:00-08:00Copyright (c) 2024 Author Instructions