
Mapping Time
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Content
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Maps tell time
- 1 Napoleon's Russian campaign
- About Gerrit Janz Kraak
- 2 Minard's map
- 2.1 The map
- About Minard
- 2.2 Minard's work
- 2.3 Mapping 1812
- As a historical event
- Inspired by Minard
- Curiosities
- 3 Time
- 3.1 What about time?
- 3.2 Types of time
- 3.3 Events and change
- 3.4 Questions and time
- 3.5 Temporal data visualization and time-space
- 4 Maps, data, and design
- 4.1 Map basics
- 4.2 Map data analysis
- 4.3 Map design
- 5 Maps and time
- 5.1 Map narrative
- 5.2 Expressing change
- Change from object perspective
- Change from attribute perspective
- Change from location perspective
- Change and Minard's representation of Napoleon's Russian campaign
- Change and the map background
- 5.3 Change in a single map
- Flow line map
- Cartograms
- Space-time cube
- A third dimension
- 5.4 Change in a series of maps
- 5.5 Change in animation
- 6 Maps and temporal exploration
- 6.1 From presentation to exploration
- Mapping environment
- Representation
- Design guidelines
- Visualization strategies
- 6.2 Exploring
- Examining Napoleon's battle record
- What happened at the crossing of the Berezina River?
- 7 Reflection
- References
- Credits
- Index
- Back cover
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