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Mapping Indigeneity in the RGS‐IBG map collections
Area, EarlyView.Short Abstract This article summarises and reflects on the ‘Mapping Indigeneity’ Map Room Conversation that formed part of the RGS‐IBG Annual International Conference 2024. Firstly, the maps from the RGS‐IBG collections displayed during the Conversation are presented and their relevance explained. Secondly, the authors offer a summary of the key points/
Peter R. Martin, Katherine Parker
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Kartografija i Geoinformacije, 2011 e-Perimetron is an international e-journal dedicated to science and technology related to the history of cartography and maps. The main aim of the journal is to connect the issues of the history of cartography and maps with different possibilities which ...
Nedjeljko Frančula
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Navigating Tensions and Contradictions: The Everyday Negotiation of Militant Research
Area, EarlyView.Short Abstract This paper explores the tensions and contradictions generated when conducting militant research from within academia. More specifically, it focuses on how they play out and shape militant research on an everyday basis, and how they are constantly negotiated by militant researchers and mediated by their diverse positionalities.
Sergio Ruiz Cayuela
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Mapping Language: Names, Speakers and Voices
Area, EarlyView.Short Abstract In this conversational piece, we reflect on our experience of working with and on maps and map‐makers that have shaped linguistic conventions and ideas, suggesting geographers have much to contribute by engaging with such mapping. It illuminates how maps rendered the unpredictable geography of speakers and the naming of places as ...
Beth Williamson, Philip Jagessar
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The (unknown) role of map librarian and the challenge of satisfying the cartographic user needs [PDF]
, 2008 The (unknown) role of map librarian and the challenge of satisfying the cartographic user needs The profession of librarianship is developed and is being recognized in Sri Lanka.
pushpamala, PERERA
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Mapping Disjuncture: Internationalism and Palestine
Area, EarlyView.Short Abstract This paper reflects on a ‘Map Conversation’ session at the 2024 RGS‐IBG Annual Conference, that explored maps of the League of Nations and Palestine. The authors contrast maps promoting global consciousness in the 1920s with those charting colonial encroachment in Palestine.
Zena Agha, Jake Hodder
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Mapping standard for sprint orienteering: standardized competition maps for urban, park and forest areas [PDF]
, 2005 Orienteering maps are one of the map products where the symbol set is standardized, no national deviations are allowed. Orienteering has developed a new form of competition which was originally held in parks or urban areas.
Zentai, László
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Map Room Conversations: Mapping Objects
Area, EarlyView.Short Abstract This article presents reflections on a ‘Map Room Conversation’ session entitled ‘Mapping Objects’ at the RGS International Conference, 2024. The session considered the three dimensional aspects of map‐making, both the objects and methods involved with producing maps, and the construction of maps in three dimensions in the form of relief ...
George Tobin, Jane Wess
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Visualization in cyber-geography: reconsidering cartography's concept of visualization in current usercentric cybergeographic cosmologies [PDF]
, 2000 This article discusses some epistemological problems of a semiotic and cybernetic character in two current scientific cosmologies in the study of geographic information systems (GIS) with special reference to the concept of visualization in modern ...
Johansson, T.D.
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