Andrew Benesh’s Reviews > Cartographic Grounds: Projecting the Landscape Imaginary > Status Update
Andrew Benesh
is 36% done
The chapter on hachure is neat - I never realized there was a formal mechanism at play. The business of matching shading to perception of the land and versimilitude in coloring makes sense, but feels like it loses data in favor of creativity.
— Nov 30, 2019 10:48PM
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Andrew Benesh
is 74% done
Done?!? The rest of the book is references and credits. I did enjoy the final chapters exploitation of the politics of symbols on a map, and the growing blurriness able what a map is or means in a digital context. What do we choose to signify, and why?
— Dec 03, 2019 10:17PM
Andrew Benesh
is 65% done
The sections on cross-sections and stratigraphic imaging were neat. I really like the Alexander Humboldt eco-maps.
— Dec 02, 2019 12:42AM
Andrew Benesh
is 19% done
I like the attention to the ways that different cartographic products reflect information, and the necessities of ground truthing. The directness about power and colonialism driving mapping data resolution was insightful.The chapter on sounding and spot elevation providers fascinating illustrations about how we impose structure onto nature for our informational means.
— Nov 28, 2019 11:23PM
