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In the next century, sea levels are predicted to rise at unprecedented rates, causing flooding around the world, from the islands of Malaysia and the canals of Venice to the coasts of Florida and California. These rising water levels pose serious challenges to all aspects of coastal existence-chiefly economic, residential, and environmental-as well as to the cartographic definition and mapping of coasts. It is this facet of coastal life that Mark Monmonier tackles in Coast Lines. Setting sail on a journey across shifting landscapes, cartographic technology, and climate change, Monmonier reveals that coastlines are as much a set of ideas, assumptions, and societal beliefs as they are solid black lines on maps. Whether for sailing charts or property maps, Monmonier shows, coastlines challenge mapmakers to capture on paper a highly irregular land-water boundary perturbed by tides and storms and complicated by rocks, wrecks, and shoals. Coast Lines is peppered with captivating anecdotes about the frustrating effort to expunge fictitious islands from nautical charts, the tricky measurement of a coastline's length, and the contentious notions of beachfront property and public access. Combing maritime history and the history of technology, Coast Lines charts the historical progression from offshore sketches to satellite images and explores the societal impact of coastal cartography on everything from global warming to homeland security. Returning to the form of his celebrated Air Apparent, Monmonier ably renders the topic of coastal cartography accessible to both general readers and historians of science, technology, and maritime studies. In the post-Katrina era, when the map of entire regions can be redrawn by a single natural event, the issues he raises are more important than ever.

Coastal mapping. --- Environmental monitoring. --- Biomonitoring (Ecology) --- Ecological monitoring --- Environmental quality --- Monitoring, Environmental --- Applied ecology --- Environmental engineering --- Pollution --- Charting, Coastal --- Coast mapping --- Coastal charting --- Coastal zone mapping --- Coastline mapping --- Coasts --- Cartography --- Measurement --- Monitoring --- Charting --- Mapping --- mapmaking, cartography, geography, climate change, global warming, environment, nature, environmentalism, sea levels, flooding, natural disaster, extreme weather, malaysia, canals, venice, coasts, florida, california, coastline, technology, science, nonfiction, nautical charts, public access, beachfront property, tides, storms, shipwreck, shoals, satellite images, homeland security, maritime, environmental monitoring, coastal mapping.

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In Rhumb Lines and Map Wars, Mark Monmonier offers an insightful, richly illustrated account of the controversies surrounding Flemish cartographer Gerard Mercator's legacy. He takes us back to 1569, when Mercator announced a clever method of portraying the earth on a flat surface, creating the first projection to take into account the earth's roundness. As Monmonier shows, mariners benefited most from Mercator's projection, which allowed for easy navigation of the high seas with rhumb lines-clear-cut routes with a constant compass bearing-for true direction. But the projection's popularity among nineteenth-century sailors led to its overuse-often in inappropriate, non-navigational ways-for wall maps, world atlases, and geopolitical propaganda. Because it distorts the proportionate size of countries, the Mercator map was criticized for inflating Europe and North America in a promotion of colonialism. In 1974, German historian Arno Peters proffered his own map, on which countries were ostensibly drawn in true proportion to one another. In the ensuing "map wars" of the 1970's and 1980's, these dueling projections vied for public support-with varying degrees of success. Widely acclaimed for his accessible, intelligent books on maps and mapping, Monmonier here examines the uses and limitations of one of cartography's most significant innovations. With informed skepticism, he offers insightful interpretations of why well-intentioned clerics and development advocates rallied around the Peters projection, which flagrantly distorted the shape of Third World nations; why journalists covering the controversy ignored alternative world maps and other key issues; and how a few postmodern writers defended the Peters worldview with a self-serving overstatement of the power of maps. Rhumb Lines and Map Wars is vintage Monmonier: historically rich, beautifully written, and fully engaged with the issues of our time.

Mercator projection (Cartography) --- Cartography --- Loxodrome. --- Peters projection (Cartography) --- Navigation. --- Social aspects. --- maps, mapping, mapmaking, society, historical, academic, scholarly, research, illustrated, controversial, controversy, flemish, cartography, cartographer, gerard mercator, legacy, life story, 1500s, earth, flat, round, mariner, sea, seafaring, sailor, direction, compass, 19th, century, atlas, geopolitical, propaganda, colonialism, colonial, criticism, innovation.

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Maps, as we know, help us find our way around. But they're also powerful tools for someone hoping to find 'you'. Widely available in electronic and paper formats, maps offer revealing insights into our movements and activities, even our likes and dislikes. In 'Spying with Maps', the "mapmatician" Mark Monmonier looks at the increased use of geographic data, satellite imagery, and location tracking across a wide range of fields such as military intelligence, law enforcement, market research, and traffic engineering. Could these diverse forms of geographic monitoring, he asks, lead to grave consequences for society? To assess this very real threat, he explains how geospatial technology works, what it can reveal, who uses it, and to what effect. Despite our apprehension about surveillance technology, 'Spying with Maps' is not a jeremiad, crammed with dire warnings about eyes in the sky and invasive tracking. Monmonier's approach encompasses both skepticism and the acknowledgment that geospatial technology brings with it unprecedented benefits to governments, institutions, and individuals, especially in an era of asymmetric warfare and bioterrorism. Monmonier frames his explanations of what this new technology is and how it works with the question of whether locational privacy is a fundamental right. Does the right to be left alone include not letting Big Brother (or a legion of Little Brothers) know where we are or where we've been? What sacrifices must we make for homeland security and open government? With his usual wit and clarity, Monmonier offers readers an engaging, even-handed introduction to the dark side of the new technology that surrounds us--from traffic cameras and weather satellites to personal GPS devices and wireless communications.

Electronic surveillance. --- Geografie --- Privacy, Right of. --- Remote sensing. --- Cartografie --- Kaartgebruik.

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Bedriegerij --- Bedrog --- Cartografie --- Cartographie --- Cartography --- Cartography [Primitive ] --- Chartography --- Chicanery --- Deceit --- Deception --- Listen --- Mapping (Cartography) --- Misleiding --- Ruses --- Subterfuge --- Tromperie --- Maps --- Cartes --- Analysis --- Analyse --- Cartographie. --- Tromperie. --- Cartes geographiques

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Some maps help us find our way; others restrict where we go and what we do. These maps control behavior. This restrictive cartography has boomed in recent decades as governments seek regulate activities. It is this aspect of mapping —its power to prohibit— that Mark Monmonier tackles in No Dig, No Fly, No Go. Tracing the power of prohibitive mapping at multiple levels —from regional to international— and multiple dimensions —from property to cyberspace— Monmonier demonstrates how much boundaries influence our experience —from homeownership and voting to taxation and airline travel.

Cartography --- Maps --- Social aspects. --- Economic aspects. --- Political aspects. --- 32.019.51 --- 912 --- Massacommunicatie. Opinievorming. Politieke beinvloeding. Politieke manipulatie. Propaganda --- Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen --- 32.019.51 Massacommunicatie. Opinievorming. Politieke beinvloeding. Politieke manipulatie. Propaganda --- Plans --- Cartographic materials --- Geography --- Cartography, Primitive --- Chartography --- Map-making --- Mapmaking --- Mapping (Cartography) --- Mathematical geography --- Surveying --- Map projection --- Economic aspects --- Political aspects --- Social aspects