Mick Ashworth: Why North Is Up

Cover: 9781851245192 | Why North Is Up | Map Conventions and Where They Came from | Ashworth

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Beschreibung

Many people have a love of maps. But what lies behind the process of map-making? How have cartographers through the centuries developed their craft and established a language of maps which helps them to better represent our world and help users to understand it? This book tells the story of how widely accepted mapping conventions originated and evolved--from map orientation, projections, typography, and scale, to the use of color, symbols, ways of representing relief, and the treatment of boundaries and place names. It charts the fascinating story of how conventions have changed in response to new technologies and ever-changing mapping requirements, how symbols can be a matter of life or death, why universal acceptance of conventions can be difficult to achieve, and how new mapping conventions are developing to meet the needs of modern cartography. Why North is Up offers an accessible and enlightening guide to the sometimes hidden techniques of map-making through the centuries.

Über den Autor

Mick Ashworth is director of Ashworth Maps and Interpretation Ltd and consultant editor to The Times Atlas of the World. He is also a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a former president of the British Cartographic Society.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2019
Genre:	Importe , Kunst
Rubrik:	Kunst & Musik
Thema:	Kunstgeschichte
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	Einband - fest (Hardcover)
ISBN-13:	9781851245192
ISBN-10:	1851245197
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Ashworth, Mick
Hersteller:	Bodleian Library
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	233 x 182 x 27 mm
Von/Mit:	Mick Ashworth
Erscheinungsdatum:	05.11.2019
Gewicht:	0,926 kg