https://cartographicperspectives.org/index.php/journal/issue/feed 2025-12-19T09:10:51+00:00 James Thatcher thatchja@oregonstate.edu Open 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%. All graphics included in accepted articles are published in full color, at no cost to authors.</p> <p>We are pleased to announce the <strong>2023 </strong><strong>student paper competition </strong>with a<strong> $1350 </strong>prize for the winning entry. Any peer-reviewed manuscript accepted for publication in <em>CP </em>whose first author is a student is automatically eligible.</p> <p>Contributing to <em>CP</em>? Simply <a href="https://cartographicperspectives.org/index.php/journal/login">login</a> or <a href="https://cartographicperspectives.org/index.php/journal/user/register">register</a> if you are a new visitor. Once logged in, select the "New Submission" tab under your User Home page, upload your manuscript when prompted, and enter the required metadata. 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/2085 2025-12-19T09:10:51+00:00 Author Instructions cp@nacis.org 2025-12-19T00:00:00+00:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Author Instructions https://cartographicperspectives.org/index.php/journal/article/view/1913 2025-01-13T12:36:21+00:00 Eliza Merritt merrittea@appstate.edu David Retchless retchled@tamug.edu Bhuwan Thapa thapab@appstate.edu Johnathan Sugg suggjw@appstate.edu

<p class="p1">Although there is extensive research on first order climate change beliefs, second-order beliefs (perceptions about what others believe) are an understudied and potentially highly influential factor tied to a lack of climate policy action. This map reading study employs a pre- and post-map observational design to investigate how interactive maps can reveal and update second-order climate change beliefs. Participants first completed a pre-map survey detailing their climate change beliefs and estimating public support for climate policies. Participants then completed map reading tasks on an interactive web map that visualized county-level climate change opinions in North Carolina, while their eye movements were recorded with an eye tracker. A post-map survey gauged participants’ reactions to the actual climate opinions, accompanied by map usability questions. The results showed a widespread underestimation of actual climate policy support among participants. Participants commonly used a set of environmental and humanistic concerns to justify the content of their own beliefs, but when asked to rationalize others’ beliefs using the map, they used conspiratorial or ideological explanations to describe others who were more skeptical of climate policy. Additionally, participants exhibited egocentric bias, focusing more on their home counties and those with extreme climate change opinions when exploring the web map. The research underscores the potential of interactive maps to improve the understanding of second-order climate change beliefs and emphasizes opportunities for enhancing their ability to communicate the broad public support that exists for many climate policies.</p>

2025-12-18T00:00:00+00:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Eliza Merritt, David Retchless, Bhuwan Thapa, Johnathan Sugg https://cartographicperspectives.org/index.php/journal/article/view/1781 2024-10-10T11:01:52+00:00 Julien Bachmann julien.bachmann@unil.ch Christian Kaiser christian.kaiser@unil.ch

<p class="p1">Research on the use of online maps in geography education underlines their potential to foster geographic thinking. However, the role of interactivity in this process has not been considered in educational settings. To address this issue, the contribution of web mapping to students’ taxonomy is investigated. Our methodology combines analysis of student productions, mouse tracking, spatiotemporal clustering, statistical modeling, and focus groups. The data collection was carried out in three stages in a class of 20 students aged 14–15 years, using three online mapping interfaces with similar interactive features. Students’ productions were evaluated using scores based on criteria constructed from Bloom’s revised taxonomy to analyze their learning. Students’ scores were compared to the way they interacted with the online maps. Results show how students master the tool over time. Temporal and spatial patterns of interactive behavior, and their impact on learning, were evident. Several of the cartographic interactions that we studied—such as spatial navigation and the display layer of attributes—had a positive impact on student learning when used moderately and intermittently, whereas juxtaposition only contributed positively when used occasionally. Focus group analysis complemented and contextualized our results by highlighting other factors such as students’ emotions and their issues in interpreting the maps. As a result, we consider this exploratory research to provide an appropriate and useful methodological combination for further research into how digital tools contribute to learning.</p>

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