Maps and Society

Estimating Potential Photovoltaic Yield with r.sun and the Open Source Geographical Resources Analysis Support System

by Joshua Pearce

H.T. Nguyen and J.M. Pearce, “Estimating Potential Photovoltaic Yield with r.sun and the Open Source Geographical Resources Analysis Support System” Solar Energy 84, pp. 831-843, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2010.02.009

The package r.sun within the open source Geographical Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS) can be used to compute... more The package r.sun within the open source Geographical Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS) can be used to compute insolation including temporal and spatial variation of albedo and solar photovoltaic yield. A complete algorithm is presented covering the steps of data acquisition and preprocessing to post simulation whereby candidate lands for incoming solar farms projects are identified. The optimal resolution to acquire reliable solar energy outputs to be integrated into PV system design software was determined to be 1 square km. A case study using the algorithm developed here was performed on a North American region encompassing fourteen counties in Southeastern Ontario. It was confirmed for the case study that Ontario has a large potential for solar electricity. This region is found to possess over 935,000 acres appropriate for solar farm development, which could provide 90 GW of PV. This is nearly 60% of Ontario’s projected peak electricity demand in 2025. The algorithm developed and tested in this paper can be generalized to any region in the world in order to foster the most environmentally-responsible development of large-scale solar farms.

Tourist Maps as Diagrams of Destination Space

by Ignacio Farías

(2011) published in Space and Culture

Tourist maps cannot be understood as signs or symbolic representations of an already constituted destination space.... more Tourist maps cannot be understood as signs or symbolic representations of an already constituted destination space. They are spatial devices playing an active role in the constitution of such space. In order to grasp this generative capacity, I propose conceiving tourist maps as diagrams, in the sense first introduced by Foucault and further developed by Deleuze and Guattari. Looking at very diverse tourist maps of Berlin and relying on selected spatial theory, this article examines four diagrammatic operations through which tourist maps constitute destination space: extending matter, edging experience, placing objects, and folding displacement. The article concludes by assessing the virtual ontological status of the space thus constituted.

Greater Akron Unemployment Claims for January 2012

by Brian Crisan

Created for an Intermediate GIS course, The University of Akron, Spring 2012 semseter

This map displays data regarding unemployment claims made in the Greater Akron area in January 2012.  It was... more This map displays data regarding unemployment claims made in the Greater Akron area in January 2012.  It was created to demonstrate a student's ability to join a non-spatial attribute table to a spatial attribute table, which enables the user to display the non-spatial table on a map.

Anglo-Scottish Relations in John Hardyng’s Chronicle

by Sarah Peverley

In The Anglo-Scottish Border and the Shaping of Identity, 1300-1600, ed. By Katherine Terrell and Mark Bruce (Palgrave, 2012).

This chapter argues that John Hardyng uses England’s long-standing conflict with Scotland to articulate his concerns... more This chapter argues that John Hardyng uses England’s long-standing conflict with Scotland to articulate his concerns about the wider socio-political difficulties facing England in the late fifteenth-century. It challenges the widely-held belief that Hardyng composed his chronicle solely to provide a context for several documents he had obtained for Henry VI relating to English hegemony over the smaller realm. Considering several examples of Anglo-Scottish affairs in the Chronicle, the chapter also reinterprets Hardyng's map of Scotland.

'Mildmay Fane’s Masque Raguaillo D'Oceano (1640): Royalism, Puritanism and Sea Voyages', Renaissance Studies (DOI: 10.1111/j.1477-4658.2011.00771.x)

by Sara Trevisan

The Maps Are the Message: Mehmet II's Patronage of an 'Ottoman Cluster'

by Karen Pinto

Published in Imago Mundi, 2011

Maps were the coincidental locus of the Ottoman Sultan Mehmet II's most passionate interests: war and art. So far, the... more Maps were the coincidental locus of the Ottoman Sultan Mehmet II's most passionate interests: war and art. So far, the focus has been upon the famed conqueror (Fâtih) of Constantinople's interest in, and demand for, European maps without mention of his patronage of classical Islamic cartographic material. In this article, I expand the perspective on Mehmet's cartographical milieu by inserting into the historical picture consideration of a recension of cartographically illustrated manuscripts, those of al-Istakhri's Kitab al-Masalik wa-al-Mamalik [Book of Roads and Kingdoms], dating from 1474 onwards and made in post-conquest Ottoman Constantinople. I also set out the circumstances under which this ‘cluster’ of manuscripts may have been copied and, by focusing on the world maps in particular, suggest ways in which the maps can be interpreted as cultural artefacts. I conclude by indicating how this particular group of manuscripts provides insights into map audience, patronage and propaganda in fifteenth-century Anatolia.

Pré-projeto de graduação

by rafo Barbosa

Pré-projeto entregue na graduação em Design Gráfico pela Universidade Fumec

Texto de pré-projeto para Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso
apresentado à Universidade FUMEC como requisito parcial... more Texto de pré-projeto para Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso
apresentado à Universidade FUMEC como requisito parcial para a obtenção do título de bacharel Design Gráfico.
Orientadora de Pesquisa em Núcleo 4: Profª. Juliana Pontes.
Orientadora de Texto Acadêmico: Profª. Juliana Pontes.
Área de Concentração: Design de Interação

HEART OF DIXIE REVISITED: AN UPDATE ON THE GEOGRAPHY OF NAMING IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH1

by Derek Alderman

Alderman, Derek H. and Robert M. Beavers. 1999. “Heart of Dixie Revisited: An Update on the Geography of Naming in the American South.” Southeastern Geographer 39:190-205.

New maps from the media-city. CityMurmur as a tool for the visualization of urban space

by Michele Graffieti

Co-authored with Marco Quaggiotto, Donato Ricci, Gaia Scagnetti, Giorgio Caviglia, Daniele Guido, Samuel Granados Lopez.
Published in 'Nouvelles cartographies, nouvelles villes' HyperUrbain.2 Ed. Khaldoun Zreik. Europia Productions.

Deprofiled Arguments in Coextension Path Fictive Motion

by Ryan Dewey

[working paper]

Fictive Motion (FM) constructions (where static entities are construed as dynamic) have been studied from multiple... more Fictive Motion (FM) constructions (where static entities are construed as dynamic) have been studied from multiple perspectives; most notably on processing times and cognitive simulation (Matlock: 2004). The present study takes a different approach and explores FM as a discourse mechanism that moderates information flow in writing about geography and maps.

As a foundation, this study uses Talmy's (2000) palpability parameters to evaluate the nature of the FM construction and then looks at the discourse functions of FM in light of Goldberg's (2006) Cognitive Construction Grammar, and Chafe's (1994) views on flow and displacement to explore how the presence or absence of prepositional phrases in a FM construction moderate topicality and reflect activation cost.

The present study explores popular science works on oceanography and geography to explore the relationship of the map as artifact and questions whether or not particular FM instances reflect an artifactual reading or a geographical reading.

Cartografia e cultura: abordagens para a geografia cultural

by Jörn Seemann

SEEMANN, Jörn . Cartografia e cultura: abordagens para a geografia cultural. In: Zeny Rosendahl; Roberto Lobato Correa. (Org.). Temas e caminhos da geografia cultural. Rio de Janeiro: Editora de UERJ, 2010, v. 1, p. 115-156.

LIBRARIES IN THE INFORMATION-ORIENTED SOCIETY

by Nadya Stamatova

El discurso cartografico en el Mexico del Porfiriato

by Raymond Craib

In: Hector Mendoza Vargas, coord., Mexico a traves de los mapas (Mexico: Plaza y Valdes/UNAM, 2000), 131-150

Grandma's World: Mapping Dancers in Beijing

by Caroline Chen

Chen, Caroline. (2011). Grandma’s World: Mapping Dancers in Beijing. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Environmental Design Research Association (pp. 38-49). Presented at the Make No Little Plans, Chicago, IL: The Environmental Design Research Association.

This study employs cognitive mapping and surveys to learn about the world of aging women in Beijing who participate in... more This study employs cognitive mapping and surveys to learn about the world of aging women in Beijing who participate in daily dancing exercises. It was carried out on a small sample of retired residents in the Honglianbeili neighborhood of Beijing to pursue two goals: (1) to learn the time and activity structure of a typical day, and (2) to identify meaningful landmarks and daily destinations in their neighborhood that are meaningful to the respondents. This research was responding to interview data gathered in 2007, when dancers reported encountering dangerous spaces while traveling to their dancing places. In an effort to understand where these challenging spaces were located and to gain a better sense of the overall territorial range of older women in Beijing, this research was proposed. This paper will focus primarily on the triangulation of data from three instruments: (1) daily routine surveys identified hour-by-hour activities and locations for one waking day; (2) dancer-drawn cognitive maps showed everyday spaces in the neighborhood; and (3) a general survey posed follow-up questions to those asked in 2007 surveys.1 This paper will focus on the data gathered during the spring and summer of 2010 at Honglianbeili plaza. The results showed that food markets, neighborhood activity centers, and urban plazas, as well as roads, bridges, and intersections, were represented in nearly all the cognitive maps. Respondents reported that they spend over two hours a day engaged in directed physical activities such as taichi and dancing. Residents also credited dancing as a source of making new friends, relaxing, feeling physically stronger, and experiencing joy. Respondents reported, however, a sense of powerlessness in changing the constraints of their dancing space and expressed a desire for design improvements in their existing dance space.

A Nationalist Metaphysics: State Fixations, National Maps, and the Geo-Historical Imagination In Nineteenth-Century Mexico

by Raymond Craib

'Maps of meaning': Landscapes on the map and in the mind - discovering Paldiski, Estonia

by Tiina Peil

Cartes participatives, cartes collaboratives. La cartographie comme maïeutique

by Gilles PALSKY

Article in French, published in "Le Monde des Cartes", review of the French Committee of Cartography, in 2010.

Cet article s'intéresse à des formes de cartographie, de développement récent, dites wikimaps, cartes ou SIG... more Cet article s'intéresse à des formes de cartographie, de développement récent, dites wikimaps, cartes ou SIG participatifs, cartes collaboratives, communautaires, etc. Ces catégories représentent des expériences très variées, mais elles ont comme point commun la production d'une information géographique par une communauté d'individus, dans une logique dite "bottom-up", de la base vers le sommet. Ces cartes s'opposent ainsi à une vision du territoire venue d'en haut, imposée par un expert ou une institution.
On pourrait décrire cette cartographie comme une cartographie sans cartographes. En réalité, les cartographes professionnels peuvent jouer un rôle dans les pratiques collaboratives, même si celui-ci est très variable. Nous tentons dans cet article de décrire la diversité des cartographies participatives et de mesurer leur part dans un processus de démocratisation de la cartographie. Le produit final résultant des formes de cartographie participative semble étranger à toute préoccupation de communication, et les règles sémiologiques s'y trouvent le plus souvent réduites au strict minimum. Il ne peut cependant pas être dédaigné au nom de ces faiblesses graphiques. Il faut en reconnaître la valeur sociale et admettre qu'elle autorise un processus de communication différent de celui qu'envisagent les cartosémioticiens, puisque situé en amont de la construction des cartes, avec pour but de faire émerger une connaissance spécifique sur les territoires. Par ailleurs, le succès de telles cartes, en particulier sur internet, peut être l'occasion de diffuser la connaissance de quelques règles basiques de la communication visuelle.

The image of the divided city through maps: the territory without territory

by Paolo Ciuccarelli

Mapmaking in Ottoman Istanbul between 1650 and 1750: a domain of painters, calligraphers, or

by Sonja Brentjes

(eds.) Colin Imber, Keiko Kiyotaki, Rhoads Murphey, Frontiers of Ottoman
Studies, 2 Vols., (London: I.B. Tauris, 2005), vol. 2., 125-156.

Cartographic Collaborations In the New World

by Adrienne Mayor