Mapping Time
Illustrated by Minard's Map of Napoleon's Russian Campaign of 1812
1st Edition
Published on 22. August 2014
170 pages
978-1-58948-366-8 (ISBN)
Description
Mapping Time, Illustrated by Minard's Map of Napoleon's Russian Campaign of 1812 considers the cartographic challenge of visualizing time on a map. Using Minard's classic map of Napoleon's disastrous Russian campaign as its starting point, it combines historical and geographic analysis with cartographic visualizations of mapping change over time. This book includes more than 100 full-color illustrations.
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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
