[DOWNLOAD] "Cartography at the University of Kansas (Company Overview)" by Cartography and Geographic Information Science # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Cartography at the University of Kansas (Company Overview)
- Author : Cartography and Geographic Information Science
- Release Date : January 01, 2011
- Genre: Earth Sciences,Books,Science & Nature,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 61 KB
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The Department of Geography at the University of Kansas has maintained a commitment to cartography as an essential geographical tradition since a cartography program was founded by George Jenks in 1949. In that postwar era, when cartography as an academic discipline began to be defined and shaped, Jenks was among the foremost influences on American cartographic research and pedagogy. Although he remained the only cartographer on the faculty until the 1960s, intellectual interest in cartography was shared by other members of the department, a tradition of intersecting cartographic influence which continues today. Among the current 24-member faculty in KU Geography, George McCleary, Terry Slocum, Jerry Dobson, Stephen Egbert, and Margaret Pearce maintain a range of cartographic research interests, from geovisualization to design and aesthetics and map history We integrate cartography with other geographical research areas, including GIS, hazards and risk, remote sensing, historical geography, spatial statistics, and Indigenous geography, according to our individual research interests. Joining Jenks on the KU faculty in the 1970s, Associate Professor George McCleary trained as a cartographer under Arthur Robinson. When McCleary arrived at KU, he brought strong interests in map design and production. His emphasis on questions related to thematic map design, from the development of thematic technique, to the implementation of aesthetic design in print production, and the ways in which design theory and praxis can be taught, shape the KU undergraduate and graduate course curriculum. Most recently, McCleary presented his research in tourist map design at ICC 2009 in Santiago, Chile, and his research in cartographic design pedagogy at NACIS 2010 in St. Petersburg, Florida.