SUBJECT

Digital history of cartography

lecture

master

Faculty of Informatics

3

Semester 1

Autumn semester

• Map history and the history of cartography: theories, trends and methods. Overview of literature on the 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.

• The history of modern cartography from Enlightenment to the 20th century. Cognitive and social changes, the technological background.

• Cartography in Hungary from the 18th century to the Compromise (1867).

• The thematic mapping of the Carpathian Basin.

• Hungarian cartography after WW I: state cartography, commercial cartography.

• Old maps as sources of information: acquisition and evaluation of data. Historical GIS.

• Digital methods in the preservation of cartographic heritage.

• Visualization methods of early map, web interfaces, webGIS solutions.

• The actual problems of the research in the history of cartography.

• J. B. Harley – D. Woodward: The History of Cartography. Vol. I–III., Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1987-

• Klinghammer I. – Pápay Gy. – Török Zs.: Kartográfiatörténet. ELTE Eötvös Kiadó, Budapest, 1995.

• Jeremy Crampton: Mapping. A critical introduction to Cartography and GIS. Univ. Of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2009.

• Anne Burdick: Digital Humanities. MIT Press, Cambridge, 2012.

Suggested literature:

• I. Kretschmer – J. Dörflinger–F. Wawrik: Lexikon zur Geschichte der Kartographie. Deuticke, Wien, 1986.

• Matthew H. Edney: The Origins and Development of J. B. Harley’s Cartographic Theories. Cartographica 40, nos. 1 & 2: Monograph 54, 2005.

• Rob Kitchin – Martin Dodge: Rethinking Maps. New Frontiers in Cartographic Theory. Routledge, 2012.

• John Brian Harley: Deconstructing the map. Cartographica, 32.1. 1989.