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Kar

Informatikai Kar

Szervezet

IK Térképtudományi és Geoinformatikai Intézet

Kód

ITM-EDHCL

Cím

Digital history of cartography

Tervezett félév

Őszi

ECTS

3

Nyelv

en

Oktatás célja

The aim of this course is to give a general overview on the history of map making and use, as well as the developing of the cartographic discipline from a multidisciplinary, critical percpective. With the available new, digital technologies historical maps are open to new research projects, including the acquisition and evaluation of spatial information, the study of the geometry of the cartographic representations and its interpretation in proper contexts, but also the preservation and publication of histroical cartographic material on the web as important part of local, regional, national or global cultural heritage.

Tantárgy tartalma

Map history and the history of cartography: theories, trends and methods. Overview of literature ont he history of cartography, map  sources. The development models of cartography as independent discipline. The problem of development: positivism, paradigms, multilinearity, cartographic modes. Postmodern and critical cartography: power, politics and ideology. Cartography in the Antuquity: Ptolemy's geography. Medieval maps: Christian maps and Islamic cartography. Renaissance cartography: cosmographies and modern atlases (Ortelius, Mercator) The history of modern cartography from Enlightenment to the 20th century: the project of topographic mapping. Cognitive and social changes, the technological background. Cartography in Hungary from the 18th cnetury to the Compromise (1867). The thematic mapping of the Carpathian Basin. Hungarian cartography after WW I: state cartography, commercial cartography. Old maps as sourses of information: acquisiton and evaluation  of data. Historical GIS. Digital methods in t he preservation of cartographic heritage (examples). Visualization methods  of early map, web interfaces, webGIS solutions. Actual research problems, recommended publications.

Számonkérés és értékelés

Written exam (web project + essay).

Irodalomjegyzék

J. B. Harley – D. Woodward: Introduction. The History of Cartography. Vol. I–III., Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1987- Török Zs.: Renaissance Cartography in East-Central Europe. (In: History of Cartography, Vol. 3. ch. 51.) Norman Thrower: Maps and Civilization. Cartography in Culture and Society. Univ. of Chicago Press, 2008. Jeremy Crampton: Mapping. A critical introduction to Cartography and GIS. Univ. Of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2009. Digital Humanities. MIT Press, 2010.