{"id":1787838,"date":"2019-09-30T15:43:08","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T19:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1787838"},"modified":"2019-09-30T15:43:08","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T19:43:08","slug":"monmoniers-latest-connections-and-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/09\/monmoniers-latest-connections-and-content\/","title":{"rendered":"Monmonier’s Latest: Connections and Content"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Mark Monmonier\u2019s latest book,\u00a0Connections and Content: Reflections on Networks and the History of Cartography<\/em> <\/strong><\/a>(Esri Press<\/a>, August ebook\/September paperback) is about \u201cthe relationships between networks and maps\u201d\u2014what does that mean? Apparently: triangulation networks, postal networks, telegraph networks survey networks, astronomical observations and other underlying data. Steven Seegel interviews Monmonier about the book<\/a> for the\u00a0New Books in Geography<\/em> podcast.\u00a0[Amazon<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mark Monmonier\u2019s latest book,\u00a0Connections and Content: Reflections on Networks and the History of Cartography (Esri Press, August ebook\/September paperback) is about \u201cthe relationships between networks and maps\u201d\u2014what does that mean? Apparently: triangulation networks, postal networks,… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[30,312,201],"class_list":["post-1787838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-surveying","tag-books","tag-history-of-cartography","tag-monmonier","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":534,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/01\/adventures-in-academic-cartography\/","url_meta":{"origin":1787838,"position":0},"title":"Adventures in Academic Cartography","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"26 January 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Pulling back the academic veil can be fascinating. I remember one day 25 years ago in my first year of university, when my\u00a0history professor paused to tell us about his current research project (a biography of an early 20th-century French politician). For a half hour he held the class rapt\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Book Reviews"","block_context":{"text":"Book Reviews","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/book-reviews\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"monmonier-adventures","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/monmonier-adventures-188x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5969,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2015\/02\/emily_garfields_map_art\/","url_meta":{"origin":1787838,"position":1},"title":"Emily Garfield’s Map Art","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"15 February 2015","format":"link","excerpt":"Emily Garfield's art is a pen-and-watercolour exercise in the cartography of imaginary places. Her drawings \"are inspired by the visual language of maps, as well as the fractal similarity that cities share with biological processes such as the patterns of cells and neurons.\" Above: \"Branching Networks (Cityspace #178).\"","rel":"","context":"In "Art"","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4051,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/03\/the-peters-projection-comes-to-bostons-public-schools\/","url_meta":{"origin":1787838,"position":2},"title":"The Peters Projection Comes to Boston’s Public Schools","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"20 March 2017","format":"link","excerpt":"In a development that just might\u00a0make academic cartographers pull out their remaining hair in frustration,\u00a0Boston's public schools began using the\u00a0Peters projection in social studies classes last week. The news coverage (see the\u00a0Grauniad\u2019s) is the usual straw man argument about the Mercator and the false dichotomy between it and the Peters,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Cartography"","block_context":{"text":"Cartography","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/cartography\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/gall-peters-wikimedia-1024x654.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/gall-peters-wikimedia-1024x654.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/gall-peters-wikimedia-1024x654.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/gall-peters-wikimedia-1024x654.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4352,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/04\/patents-and-cartographic-inventions\/","url_meta":{"origin":1787838,"position":3},"title":"Patents and Cartographic Inventions","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"25 April 2017","format":"link","excerpt":"Published late last month, Mark Monmonier's new book, Patents and Cartographic Inventions: A New Perspective for Map History (Palgrave Macmillan) is on a somewhat more arcane and non-obvious subject than his usual fare. It's an exploration of the U.S. patent system that focuses on map- and navigation-related inventions. The publisher's\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"books\"","block_context":{"text":"books","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/tag\/books\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/patents-cartographic-inventions-202x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6171,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/11\/fake-maps-very-dishonest\/","url_meta":{"origin":1787838,"position":4},"title":"Fake Maps! (Very Dishonest)","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"24 November 2017","format":"video","excerpt":"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/241238519 Here's a video of Steven Feldman's informative and entertaining talk at FOSS4G in Boston last August: \"Fake Maps, Very Dishonest\" looks at the ways in which maps, through ignorance, incompetence or deliberate intent, can mislead, misinform, misfire and miss the point. Very much in the vein of Monmonier's\u00a0How to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Cartography"","block_context":{"text":"Cartography","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/cartography\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/fakemaps-150x150.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4727,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/08\/more-on-patents-and-cartographic-inventions\/","url_meta":{"origin":1787838,"position":5},"title":"More on Patents and Cartographic Inventions","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"30 August 2017","format":"link","excerpt":"Earlier this year I mentioned the publication of Mark Monmonier's latest book,\u00a0Patents and Cartographic Inventions. 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