John Krygier

John Krygier
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Ohio Wesleyan University · Department of Environment & Sustainabilty

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It's out! The 4th edition of Making Maps (with Denis Wood). More fun at makingmaps.substack.com | plethic.substack.com

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Introduction
John Krygier is a Professor in the Department of Environment & Sustainability at Ohio Wesleyan University with research interests in Cartography, GIS, and Environmental Geography.
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September 1996 - August 1998
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Position
  • Research Assistant

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Publications (46)
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A review of Matthew Edney's book on the history and philosophy of the field of cartography: "Matthew Edney’s Cartography: The Ideal and Its History provides a corrective, a reimagined intellectual framework for maps and mapping that will, when engaged and operationalized, greatly broaden our understanding of the wondrous array of inscriptions and p...
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Updated encyclopedia entry on Critical Cartography, first written in 2009.
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This Is Not an Atlas gathers more than 40 counter-cartographies from all over the world. This collection shows how maps are created and transformed as a part of political struggle, for critical research or in art and education: from indigenous territories in the Amazon to the anti-eviction movement in San Francisco; from defending commons in Mexico...
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This Is Not an Atlas gathers more than 40 counter-cartographies from all over the world. This collection shows how maps are created and transformed as a part of political struggle, for critical research or in art and education: from indigenous territories in the Amazon to the anti-eviction movement in San Francisco; from defending commons in Mexico...
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This consists of a few extracts from the Making Maps book. The "GPS" in the title is a typo and should be "GIS"
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This chapter describes a grassroots, distributed approach to sustainability on a college campus: students, staff, and faculty figure out how to make sustainability happen with no full-time staff and limited funds. There are some benefits to this approach to sustainability: it requires substantive collaboration between students, staff, and faculty....
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Lauded for its accessibility and beautiful design, this text has given thousands of students and professionals the tools to create effective, compelling maps. Using a wealth of illustrations—with 74 in full color—to elucidate each concisely presented point, the revised and updated third edition continues to emphasize how design choices relate to th...
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When asked to reflect on Brian Harley's ''Deconstructing the Map'' (Harley 1989) for this special issue of Cartog-raphica, I sat down on the sofa in my office and tried to recall my initial reading of and reaction to the article. What came to mind was less about articles, critiques, theories, or intellectual arguments and more about Harley the pers...
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Acclaimed for its innovative use of visual material, this book is engaging, clear, and compelling—exactly how an effective map should be. Nearly every page is organized around maps and other figures (many in full color) that illustrate all aspects of map making, including instructive examples of both good and poor design choices. The book covers ev...
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This paper provides a brief introduction to critical cartography. We define critical cartography as a one-two punch of new mapping practices and theoretical critique. Critical cartography challenges academic cartography by linking geographic knowledge with power, and thus is political. Although contemporary critical cartography rose to prominence i...
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While protest maps conjure images of bomb-tossing anarchists (or at least their tamer counterparts), the idea of protest and protest maps is actually more mundane and common. This article explores official protest maps, used to counter official (often mapped) pronouncements about flood plain locations, school district boundaries, zoning, etc., in a...
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Maps are artifacts that selectively link places to other kinds of things for the purpose of underwriting the reproduction (or contestation) of the social relations of power, and therefore, more readily exemplified than defined. Maps have become important comparatively recently, almost all of them having been made in the past hundred years, and thei...
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A succinct overview of map types.
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A succinct overview of critical cartography.
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As the literature on trail development suggests, recreational trail projects can generate conflicts and controversies, particularly when built on abandoned rail corridors through developed areas. These conflicts are often understood as “not in my back yard” (NIMBY) reactions, suggesting a spatial proximity to conflict which increases as one draws c...
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Jake Barton, a New York-based designer, creates public maps that generate social interaction, personal expression, and collaborative storytelling. Barton's work is centered on performance, drawing attention to the performative capacity of maps, a seldom-explored facet of cartographic design and theory. Examples of Barton's projects, realized and un...
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This chapter discusses World Wide Web (WWW) that has profoundly transformed the ways to use and create maps. The explosive growth of WWW mapping sites and their popularity suggest that the map education is more important than ever. The chapter also explores the issue of map education in a world transformed by the WWW. As a focus, it documents the w...
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The most vital issues in multimedia cartography are not technical issues. Cartographic multimedia has great potential for human geographers and social scientists engaged in attempts to understand and represent complex human and social environments through space and over time. This potential can be realised if we, as cartographers, approach cartogra...
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Geography and earth science educators are simultaneously faced with increasing scrutiny of teaching, new educational standards and a plethora of new teaching methods such as computer multimedia. While there have been calls for the use of multimedia in geography and earth science education, few explicit guidelines detail how to actually begin design...
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A striking shaded relief map, created by Baron F. W. von Egloffstein to accompany the report on the first official exploration of the Grand Canyon in 1857-58, represents an important new way of envisioning America's western landscapes. Ideas from the history and sociology of science, art history, and cultural geography are woven together as a means...
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This paper explores the manner in which geographic understanding can guide and shape cartographic design research. The first section of the paper argues that geographers conceptualize maps and mapping technologies as geographic methods and are interested in how maps and mapping technologies relate to and serve as means in the process of geographic...
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Regardless of changing official definitions, many cartographers continue to think of cartography in terms of art and science. This paper critiques the use of the art/science dualism as a means of understanding cartography, particularly by those interested in reexamining the role of aesthetics, design, and visual expression in cartography. Two basic...
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A copy of" Cartography as an Art and a Science" article, scanned from the original offprint.
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Regardless of changing official definitions, many cartographers continue to think of cartography in terms of art and science. This paper critiques the use of the art/science dualism as a means of understanding cartography, particularly by those interested in reexamining the role of aesthetics, design, and visual expression in cartography. Two basic...
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The primary goal of this research is to examine how geographic visualization methods relate to research in landscape geography. I develop a conceptualization of geographic visualization and link it to current philosophical, theoretical, conceptual, and practical issues in landscape geography. This conceptualization of geographic visualization is th...
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Preview of this book available at Google Books: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Visualization_in_Modern_Cartography/3cP-BAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 Visualization in Modern Cartography explores links between the centuries-old discipline of cartography and today's revolutionary developments in scientific visualization. The book has three main goals:...
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Scientists visualize data for a range of purposes, from exploring unfamiliar data sets to communicating insights revealed by visual analyses. As the supply of numerical environmental data has increased, so has the need for effective visual methods, especially for exploratory data analysis. Map animation is particularly attractive to earth system sc...
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A striking shaded relief map, created by Baron F.W. von Egloffstein to accompany the report on the first official exploration of the Grand Canyon in 1857-58, represents an important new way of envisioning America's Western landscapes. Ideas from the history and sociology of science, art history, and cultural geography are woven together as a means...
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Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1990. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 159-169). Photocopy.

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