brucec%phoebus.phoebus.labs.tek.com@RELAY.CS.NET (08/24/90)
I've just discovered a fascinating book on the theory of the use and design
of cartographic maps. Quoting from the back jacket:
"This book is the first to deal in a detailed and systematic way with the
principles of visual preception as applied to maps. The book is divided
into three parts. The first part examines the basic processes of visual
perception, drawing on the knowledge derived from physiology and
psychology, and at the same time focusing attention on the particular
visual characteristics of maps. Specific examples are used to illustrate
both map-making problems and map-using tasks. In the second part the sign
system of the map, and the way in which information is represented and
expressed, is treated in detail, especially the relationships between the map
and language, and between the map and reality. The importance of a
cognitive approach to problems of visual perception is stressed
throughout, and in the third part the author looks at the problem of the
connnections between the map maker, the map, and the map user ..."
I've just started it, but it looks like the closest thing I've found to a
textbook on the theory of designing representations of spatial
relationships for navigation. In fact, I wasn't sure that such a thing
existed as a formal are of study.
The citation is:
@Book{,
author = "Keats, J. S.",
title = "Understanding Maps",
publisher = "(USA) Halstead Press, div. of John Wiley and Sons",
year = "1982",
}
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M/S 50-662, P.O. Box 500, Beaverton, OR 97077