Motion in Maps, Maps in Motion

Download or read book Motion in Maps, Maps in Motion written by Bram Vannieuwenhuyze and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume argues that the mapping of stories, movement and change should not be understood as an innovation of contemporary cartography, but rather as an important aspect of human cartography with a longer history than might be assumed. The authors in this collection reflect upon the main characteristics and evolutions of story and motion mapping, from the figurative news and history maps that were mass-produced in early modern Europe, through the nineteenth- and twentieth-century flow maps that appeared in various atlases, up to the digital and interactive motion and personalised maps that are created today. Rather than presenting a clear and homogeneous history from the past up until the present, this book offers a toolbox for understanding and interpreting the complex interplays and links between narrative, motion and maps.