Browsing Coordinates: Online Journal of the Map and Geography Round Table, American Library Association by Title
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(ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2007-10-16)Maps are not always published with coordinates. However, by following strict guidelines in the 034 and 255 MARC fields, and by using cataloging rules, one can interpolate this data in order to provide coordinates in ...
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(ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2005-11-16)This article calls for a new approach to historical cartography. Arguing that cartographic presentism obscures the local geographies of the past, the author reviews the imagery of current historical mapping as geocentric ...
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(ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2007-04-11)The history of cartography has since the 1970s significantly expanded its disciplinary reach, its theoretical directions and approaches, and its scholarship. This annotated bibliography is intended as a guide to the extended ...
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(ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2006-02-14)This article examines a well-known map of the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada allegedly made in or around 1610. The map was uncovered in the Spanish Archives at Simancas in 1887. Supposedly, it is a copy ...
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(ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2006-09-25)Very few institutions offer introductory courses in the history of cartography. Distance learning is a way to make this type of course more widely available. This paper discusses the ways in which special collections ...
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(ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2005-08-29)Few geospatial data representations are more basic than the bounding box; a rectangle surrounding a geographic feature or dataset. Bounding boxes are a key component of geospatial metadata and lie at the heart of many ...
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(ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2005-08-29)In an attempt to shed some light on the problem of Martin Waldseemüller’s portrayal of the shape of South America on his important 1507 world map, polynomial warping algorithms and regression analysis are applied to the ...