Mapping Time: Illustrated by way of Minard's Map of Napoleon's Russian crusade of 1812 considers the cartographic problem of visualizing time on a map. encouraged via photo innovator Charles Minard’s vintage map of France’s disastrous invasion of Russia, this ebook combines old and geographic research with cartographic visualizations of mapping swap over the years. It contains greater than a hundred full-color illustrations.
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Forty five 3. 1 What approximately time? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . forty five 3. 2 Types of time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . forty six 3. 3 Events and alter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . forty nine 3. 4 Questions and time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . fifty three 3. 5 Temporal information visualization and time-space. . . . . . . . . . . . fifty five four Maps, facts, and layout. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . fifty nine 4. 1 Map fundamentals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . fifty nine 4. 2 Map info research. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . sixty four 4. 3 Map layout. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 five Maps and time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . seventy seven 5. 1 Map narrative. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . seventy seven five. 2 Expressing swap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . eighty switch from item point of view. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . eighty four switch from characteristic standpoint. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 swap from situation standpoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ninety switch and Minard’s illustration of Napoleon’s Russian crusade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ninety four switch and the map historical past. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ninety five 5. 3 Change in one map. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . a hundred circulate line map. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . a hundred Cartograms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Space-time dice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 a 3rd size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 5. 4 Change in a sequence of maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 5. 5 Change in animation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 6 Maps and temporal exploration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 6. 1 From presentation to exploration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 Mapping atmosphere. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 illustration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 layout directions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 Visualization options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 6. 2 Exploring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 analyzing Napoleon’s conflict checklist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 What occurred on the crossing of the Berezina River?. . 136 7 Reflection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 References. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 Credits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 v This web page deliberately left clean. Preface How can we map time? That has been the overriding query guiding my examine. questions on mapping time problem us to head past the normal snapshot-based method of maps so that it will contain techniques. this type of activity calls for a distinct view of maps now that technological developments have made time-related facts so plentiful. we want new methods to this information that may improve our wisdom approximately spatiotemporal styles and kinfolk and their implications for the genuine global. certainly, how we conceptualize mapping time will essentially form how we comprehend the information and the way we current our findings to varied audiences. Minard’s map of Napoleon’s Russian crusade in 1812 has performed a task in my occupation ever because my learn pursuits in mapping time matured.