TY - BOOK AU - Kriz,Karel AU - Cartwright,William AU - Kinberger,Michaela ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Understanding Different Geographies T2 - Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography, SN - 9783642297700 AV - GA1-1776 U1 - 910.285 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Berlin, Heidelberg PB - Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Imprint: Springer KW - Geography KW - Geographical information systems KW - Geographical Information Systems/Cartography N1 - From the Contents: Maps and Design -- Cartography utilizing Geo-Communication -- Understanding different geographies: the case for drawings and sketches -- Artefacts and geospaces -- Understanding Artefacts through Geographies – Perceiving Geographies through Artefacts -- Harriet Edquist and Lisa Byrne: Understanding Place -- When countries become gods – some thoughts on the geospatial aspect of deities and demons in India -- Exhibitions and Geospace -- Potential Information Gains for Exhibition Makers and their audience in Mapping the Movement of Objects -- Representations and Geospace -- The Geography of Uncertainty: Outcomes Spaces and Uncertainty Visualization N2 - This book collects revised versions of papers first delivered at the “Understanding Different Geographies Symposium” held in Puchberg am Schneeberg, Austria in 2011.  The Symposium focussed on “Communicating Meaning with [Geo]Graphic Artefacts”.  The general topics of the chapters cover: - Exploring geographic knowledge - Maps in exhibition spaces - Information and exhibition design with (geo)graphic artefacts - Extracting meaning from visualisations of different geographies - Deconstructing maps of information - and other spaces UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29770-0 ER -