The comparative tableau of mountains and rivers: emulation and reappraisal of a popular 19th-century visualization design:

摘要: The ‘comparative tableau of mountains and rivers’ is a recently ‘rediscovered’ cartographic layout, aiming to illustrate the size distributions world's highest longest rivers. Its ‘river’ component basically barplot unbent shapes, retaining ‘thick’ description their immediate hinterland. This display was common feature French Anglo-American atlases during most 19th century, before it fell totally into disfavour, supplanted by more watershedcentred approaches. paper critical assessment design principles this visualization, via modern emulation based on generic GIS rubbersheeting algorithms. A recreation chart rivers allows for showcasing characteristics its intellectual framing, political uses. Beyond discussion approach's limitations, innovative merits are demonstrated with two mapping applications evolution landcover admin...