Cartography without ‘Progress’: Reinterpreting the Nature and Historical Development of Mapmaking

摘要: This paper extends the current critique of cartography's empiricist presuppositions to nature cartography as a practice. After exploring relevant aspects - manner in which geographic data are treated constituting single, monolithic database and reliance upon linear progressive view cartographic history new interpretation its presented. Cartography should be seen complex amalgam modes rather than enterprise. Each mode comprises set cultural, social, technological relations determine practices. conception is applied modern European period between 1500 1850, when mapmaking appeared progress from being an art science (the 'cartographic reformation'). Approaching this without prior assumptions reveals that reformation myth created by our misunderstanding the...