Unquestionable Geographies

2018 ◽  
Vol 87 (4) ◽  
pp. 593-637
Author(s):  
Jimmy L. Bryan
Keyword(s):  
Geographic Information ◽  
Empire Building ◽  
Louisiana Purchase ◽  
The Way

From 1810 with the publication of the first charts of the Louisiana Purchase, to 1848 with the celebration of the Mexican cession, leading U.S. cartographers like John Melish, Henry S. Tanner, S. Augustus Mitchell, and others marshaled their empirical and romantic skillsets to engage willfully and consciously in the work of empire-building. Instead of presenting static and impartial displays of geographic information, they were self-conscious and unashamed visionaries who manipulated and sometimes invented geographies, outlining the “sketchy” places with aggressive borders and labels and filling in the “silences” with make-believe topographies and hydrographies. They professed the revelation of natural designs that forecasted grand and prosperous futures. As powerful, yet fictive, expressions of dominion, maps significantly impacted the way many Americans viewed their national destiny, enticed by the geographic vocabularies that masked their chauvinisms and avarice by normalizing their territorial ambitions as natural, providential, and inevitable.

Manly Markets in le due Americhe, 1880–1914

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Zanoni
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Labor Migrants ◽  
Building Projects ◽  
Empire Building ◽  
Chamber Of Commerce ◽  
Transnational Family ◽  
Government Statistics ◽  
The Way

This chapter maps changing links between Italian migration and trade to the United States and Argentina. It focuses on Italian elites’ endeavors to exploit these links as part of larger nation- and empire-building projects. By comparing government statistics to elite representations of Italian people and food exports in trademarks and in Italian Chamber of Commerce publications, it argues that Italian leaders masculinized migrant marketplaces and the transnational paths in which they were embedded. Unlike neighboring European countries where ties between consumption and nationhood were increasingly associated with women, Italy’s massive emigration required linking Italian consumption to male citizens abroad. While labor migrants established profitable commercial routes in Italian exports, these gendered representations of manly markets overlooked the way transnational family economies restrained migrant consumption.

scholarly journals The Light Source Metaphor Revisited—Bringing an Old Concept for Teaching Map Projections to the Modern Web

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 162
Author(s):  
Magnus Heitzler ◽  
Hans-Rudolf Bär ◽  
Roland Schenkel ◽  
Lorenz Hurni
Keyword(s):  
Light Source ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Detailed Knowledge ◽  
Map Projections ◽  
Web Technologies ◽  
Information Technology Training ◽  
Projection Surface ◽  
The Way

Map projections are one of the foundations of geographic information science and cartography. An understanding of the different projection variants and properties is critical when creating maps or carrying out geospatial analyses. The common way of teaching map projections in text books makes use of the light source (or light bulb) metaphor, which draws a comparison between the construction of a map projection and the way light rays travel from the light source to the projection surface. Although conceptually plausible, such explanations were created for the static instructions in textbooks. Modern web technologies may provide a more comprehensive learning experience by allowing the student to interactively explore (in guided or unguided mode) the way map projections can be constructed following the light source metaphor. The implementation of this approach, however, is not trivial as it requires detailed knowledge of map projections and computer graphics. Therefore, this paper describes the underlying computational methods and presents a prototype as an example of how this concept can be applied in practice. The prototype will be integrated into the Geographic Information Technology Training Alliance (GITTA) platform to complement the lesson on map projections.

scholarly journals Quantum GIS plugin for Czech cadastral data

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 91-98
Author(s):  
Anna Kratochvílová ◽  
Václav Petráš
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Geographic Information System ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Data Format ◽  
Specific Data ◽  
Cross Platform ◽  
Easy Search ◽  
Exchange Data ◽  
The Way

This paper presents new Quantum GIS plugin for Czech cadastral data and its development. QGIS is a rapidly developing cross-platform desktop Geographic Information System (GIS) released under the GNU GPL. QGIS is written in C++, and uses the Qt library. The plugin is developed in C++, too. The new plugin can work with Czech cadastral data in the new Czech cadastral exchange data format called VFK (or NVF). Data are accessed through VFK driver of the OGR library. The plugin should facilitate the work with cadastral data by easy search and presenting well arranged information. Information is displayed in the way similar to web applications, thus the control is friendly and familiar for users. The plugin supports interaction with map using QGIS functionality and it is able to export various cadastral reports. This paper provides ideas which can be generalized to develop QGIS plugin dealing with specific data.

Inner Asian Frontiers: Chinese and Russian Margins of Expansion

1947 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Owen Lattimore
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Population Growth ◽  
Empire Building ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Sea Power ◽  
American Tradition ◽  
The Way

The American tradition emphasizes the importance of sea power, especially the great age of sea power which began with Columbus and led first to the expansion of Spain and Portugal and then to the empire building of England, Holland, and France, and the development of North America. In America itself we are also familiar with the epic march across the continent to the Pacific, and the way in which the expanding frontier shaped, or at least strongly influenced, our society and our institutions, as expounded by Turner. Even our continental history, however, was initiated by the crossing of the Atlantic; and from then on even our period of most active continental expansion was never free of the influences and effects of sea power, sea-borne commerce, the investment of European capital, and acceleration of population growth by the immigration of Europeans.

Rancang Bangun Sistem Informasi Bengkel Vespa di Denpasar

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-33
Author(s):  
Dwi Putra Githa ◽  
Ni Putu Sutramiani
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Geographic Information System ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
The World ◽  
The Web ◽  
The Way

Vespa is a vehicle that has its own charm of its distinctive shape. Vespa has fanatical fans around the world including in Denpasar Bali, either modern vespa or classic vespa. But sometimes riding a vespa (especially a classic vespa) although routine maintenance of the vespa may still be problematic when driving, whether it's a strike in the middle of the journey, broken clutch rope or tire broke while on the way. Information about the vespa workshop is the information that the vespa rider must know. Geographic information system of vespa workshop in Denpasar can be a solution to provide information about the location and route to the vespa workshop in Denpasar. The system is created using the concept of web-mobile, so that each device is capable of using the system with only the web-browser.The result of designing and building geographic information system of Vespa workshop in Denpasar is system consist of user menu and admin menu. Users can view information about the vespa workshop and the route to the vespa workshop. The admin menu is dedicated to managing vespa workshop data in the system.

Study on Methods of Urgent Refuge Planning Based on GIS

2013 ◽  
Vol 353-356 ◽  
pp. 2251-2255
Author(s):  
Zheng Wang ◽  
Xiao Hong Wang ◽  
Ya Jing Liu ◽  
Jian Yu Chu
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Geographic Information System ◽  
Euclidean Distance ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Distribution Maps ◽  
Weight Index ◽  
Test Application ◽  
A New Technique ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

Damage of disaster to residents can be mitigated by urgent refuge. But the old way to plan urgent refuge is not reasonable. So techniques and methods are needed. Geographic Information System (short for GIS) as a new technique and method is of some import to planning urgent refuge. Calculating the impact of factors in each raster, distribution maps of Euclidean distance is got. Then, the maps of factor which get different weight index are calculated by overlay way. The last map is as planning urgent refuge. After that, the way is used in a country as a test application. The result shows that the way based on GIS makes planning urgent refuge more scientific and more reasonable. Planning the country urgent refuge proposed is worthy to use for reference.

Self-sacrifice for in-group's history: A diachronic perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Babińska ◽  
Michal Bilewicz
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Psychology ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Emotional Events ◽  
Reciprocal Process ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe problem of extended fusion and identification can be approached from a diachronic perspective. Based on our own research, as well as findings from the fields of social, political, and clinical psychology, we argue that the way contemporary emotional events shape local fusion is similar to the way in which historical experiences shape extended fusion. We propose a reciprocal process in which historical events shape contemporary identities, whereas contemporary identities shape interpretations of past traumas.

What is the purpose of cognition?

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aba Szollosi ◽  
Ben R. Newell
Keyword(s):  
Infinite Number ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
The Way

Abstract The purpose of human cognition depends on the problem people try to solve. Defining the purpose is difficult, because people seem capable of representing problems in an infinite number of ways. The way in which the function of cognition develops needs to be central to our theories.

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