{"id":4352,"date":"2017-04-25T08:42:57","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T12:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=4352"},"modified":"2017-04-25T08:42:57","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T12:42:57","slug":"patents-and-cartographic-inventions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/04\/patents-and-cartographic-inventions\/","title":{"rendered":"Patents and Cartographic Inventions"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Published late last month, Mark Monmonier’s new book, Patents and Cartographic Inventions: A New Perspective for Map History<\/a><\/cite><\/strong> (Palgrave Macmillan<\/a>) 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 description: “In probing evolving notions of novelty, non-obviousness, and cumulative innovation, Mark Monmonier examines rural address guides, folding schemes, world map projections, diverse improvements of the terrestrial globe, mechanical route-following machines that anticipated the GPS navigator, and the early electrical you-are-here mall map, which opened the way for digital cartography and provided fodder for patent trolls, who treat the patent largely as a license to litigate.” Actually sounds interesting as hell; the book is quite expensive, though.\u00a0Amazon<\/a>, iBooks<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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… 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":[1],"tags":[30,833,201,832],"class_list":["post-4352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-books","tag-inventions","tag-monmonier","tag-patents","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4727,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/08\/more-on-patents-and-cartographic-inventions\/","url_meta":{"origin":4352,"position":0},"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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This relatively slim volume does a deep dive on one of the inventions featured in his previous book, Patents and Cartographic Inventions: the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Book Reviews"","block_context":{"text":"Book Reviews","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/book-reviews\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Book cover: Clock and Compass","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/clock-and-compass-200x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":271,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/01\/monmonier-on-critical-cartography\/","url_meta":{"origin":4352,"position":2},"title":"Monmonier on Critical Cartography","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"14 January 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"Mark Monmonier has posted an essay sharply critical of\u00a0critical cartography and its distance from its own subject.\u00a0It was\u00a0originally commissioned as part of the forthcoming\u00a0Cartographic Grounds\u00a0but\u00a0cut for reasons of space. Very incisive; I could quote you some but I'd end up quoting the whole damn essay. Go read.\u00a0[via]","rel":"","context":"In "Cartography"","block_context":{"text":"Cartography","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/cartography\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1789027,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/07\/georgias-covid-19-maps-bad-faith-or-bad-design\/","url_meta":{"origin":4352,"position":3},"title":"Georgia\u2019s COVID-19 Maps: Bad Faith or Bad Design?","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"18 July 2020","format":"link","excerpt":"In How to Lie with Maps, Mark Monmonier warns that map readers \u201cmust watch out for statistical maps carefully contrived to prove the points of self-promoting scientists, manipulating politicians, misleading advertisers, and other propagandists. 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