GEOG 1HA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Compass Rose, Geographic Information System, Cartogram
2 Feb 2017
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Maps are socially constructed; people make maps. Maps re ect the power of the people that draw them. * e. g. argentina stamps that claim they have a part of antartica that belongs to them. Critical eye; statistics, hidden messages placed by the map maker. Social & cultural history of maps & mapping. Solving spatial problems (photographs: navigational maps; key to human survival, paci c islanders maps; used sticks for the routes and shells for the islands. Maps re ect current knowledge (terra incognita: includes the land that we do not know about because we haven"t been. Maps are used as statements of power & authority: the british empire, the sun never sets on the empire :always day time somewhere in the empire, meaning that it was the largest and most signi cant. Maps are like other forms of visual representation of data ( gures or tables)
