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The article offers information on the winners of the ESRI Award for Best Scientific Paper in GIS awards. It states that the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) ESRI Award Selection Committee made the announcement concerning the winners of this award. Winners include Rongxing Li, Jue Wang, and Sanchit Agarwal for their paper "A WebGIS for Spatial Data Processing, Analysis, and Distribution for the MER 2003 Mission," Qiuming Cheng and C. Vincent Tao for their paper "A Network-centric Modeling Approach for Infrastructure Interdependency," and Pravara Thanapura and Dennis L. Helder for their work "Mapping Urban Land Cover Using Quickbird NDVI and GIS Spatial Modeling for Runoff Coefficient Determination."

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The article offers information on the winners of the Boeing Award for Best Paper in Image Analysis and Interpretation. The American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) Boeing Award Selection Committee has announced that Xiaoliang Lu, Ronggao Liu, Jiyuan Liu, and Shunling Liang have received this award. Relative to this, it is posed that presentation of this award will take place in May 2008 during the ASPRS Annual Conference to be conducted in Portland, Oregon. The award aims to induce development and recognize achievement in image interpretation and analysis through acknowledgement of efficient publication in this field.

Landforms of the United States (1939) by Erwin Raisz is one of the best examples of cartographic excellence depicting the landscape based on underpinning geological structure. With the block diagram as the foundation for landform mapping, this paper details the development of the landform map comparing works and lives of two of the most prominent physiographic landform cartographers, Erwin Raisz and Armin K. Lobeck, who each had Dr. Douglas Johnson as a PhD advisor at Columbia University. Comparing the 1921 Physiographic Diagram of the United States by Lobeck with the 1939 Raisz map, this paper argues that Raisz far exceeded Lobeck in the articulation of the landscape by way of the map. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The research is focused on the topographic modelling and mapping of the Aleutian Trench. The study area is situated in the Bering Sea, a marginal sea located northernmost of the Pacific Ocean, between Alaska and Kamchatka Peninsula. The geological setting of the region is characterized by the subduction of the oceanic Pacific Plate below the continental North American Plate. Other features include high seismic activity along the Aleutian island arcs bordering the oceanic seafloor. The objective of this paper is to explore the interaction between the geophysical setting affecting the relief of the seafloor by using geoinformation techniques and geological analysis. In the hypothesis of this study, variations in the geophysical fields as independent variables are reflected in the morphology of the seafloor, which can be observed using data visualization by the advanced cartographic scripting solutions. The open source high-resolution topographic map (ETOPO1), marine free-air gravity and Bouguer gravity anomaly data were used and integrated to investigate the potential correlation between the geophysical, geological, tectonic and topographic settings of the Bering Sea. Our main method includes bathymetric mapping of the area with publicly available bathymetric data using GMT. Materials include open source data: ETOPO1 raster grid with 1 arc-minute resolution, EGM96 gravity and vector contour layers of GMT. The research included complex thematic mapping of the region, including topographic, contour, geodetic and geophysical mapping, 3D modelling and geomorphological plotting of the 30 cross-section segments of the trench located SE off the Bowers Ridge. According to the processed ETOPO1 dataset, the minimal depth is -8480 m and the mean is -3089.154 m. The geoid undulations model shows that the majority of the gravity values lie in the interval between -10 and 20 m with the lowest values along the trench. The statistical histogram shows that the most common depth value in the segment of the Aleutian Trench is -4800 m, occurring 1722 times. The profile linear trend modelling was done with four different approaches of the regression model (y = f(x) + e) by weighted least squares (WLS) with arguments: 1) m,t = a + bt (polynomial model degree one); 2) m3t = a + bt + ct2 (polynomial model degree two); 3) m4t = a + bt + ct2+ dcos27r*t + esin27t*t (polynomial model with Fourier series one); and 4) additional plotting residuals. Surface modelling was performed using xyz modelling from the ASCII data enlarging fragment towards SE of the Bowers Ridge. The tested functionality of modules of GMT presented an effective cartographic scripting toolset enabling a precise topographic mapping and 3D modelling. The paper contributes to a more detailed understanding of the Pacific Ocean seafloor bathymetry, more specifically of the selected segment of the Aleutian Trench near Bowers Ridge area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The recent proliferation of indigenous land titling processes has generated debate around the possibilities and limits of indigenous engagements with modern forms of cartography, territory and property. This paper makes a novel contribution to these discussions by highlighting the contradictory effects of territory and property in indigenous land claims processes. My analysis departs from a consideration of multicultural cartographies of territorially-bounded indigeneity and their awkward articulation with the racial regimes of ownership (Bhandar, 2018) that undergird settler and postcolonial property systems. The paper then examines how this tension has played out in the mapping and titling of Native Community Lands in South-eastern Bolivia. I trace how the discursive and cartographic representation of Native Community Lands as bounded, contiguous spaces of indigeneity has been undermined by the socio-spatial effects of propertisation, which has reinscribed colonial hierarchies of race and property, leaving indigenous villages isolated within discontinuous fragments of marginal land. The paper concludes by examining how the tensions between territory and property continue to haunt indigenous resource politics in the Bolivian Chaco two decades after the creation of Native Community Lands. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The cartography of North-East India had been changed twice in fifty years first, in 1905 (Bengal Division) and secondly in 1947 (the Great Divide). Over time, it has been confronted with many upheavals and has a great facelift in the case of culture, history, and polity and passed it on to literature. This paper discusses the post-colonial period depicted in the famous works of Qurratulain Hyder River of Fire; My temples too; and Fireflies in the Mist. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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• Organizational theory advances debates on counter-mapping in critical cartography. • Counter-mapping may contribute to the formation of socio-territorial movements. • Vernacular legibility involves the bestowing of political intelligibility for communities. • The effects of counter-mapping on legibility may not materialize until decades later. • External partners contribute more when they provide follow-up support after mapping. Critical cartography has called attention to the ways in which resistance and governmentality intersect in counter-mapping projects aimed at supporting Indigenous communities in their land claims. Mapping responds to the communities' intentions of becoming legible to achieve legal recognition, but it also facilitates their insertion into a grid of intelligibility. Less understood is the role that mapping can have on transforming internal organizational dynamics and how this restructuring may alter their capacity to act as socio-territorial movements. Drawing on a case study in Honduras, this paper seeks to analyze the legacies of counter-mapping through the lens of organizational theory. This analysis involves tracing organizational practices before and after a mapping intervention. Applying this organizational analysis in Honduras shows that cartography contributed to the formation of a geo-body that enabled the standardization of political representation, bringing more political intelligibility between the leaders and constituents of the Miskitu socio-territorial movement. This cartographically enabled standardization is referred to as vernacular legibility because it repurposes technologies of governance to facilitate the formalization of community politics. Vernacular legibility shows how organizational analysis combined with critical cartography advances our understanding of different pathways in the formation of socio-territorial movements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dorothy L. Sayers's detective story "The learned adventure of the dragon's head" uses, as the crux of its plot, a supposedly hand-annotated copy of Sebastian Münster's map of the Canary Islands, taken from an unspecified Latin edition of his Cosmographiae Universalis. This paper summarises Sayers's use of the map in her story, then discusses the Cosmographia and its publication history, before identifying the edition Sayers used as that of 1559, issued several years after Münster's death. More than a dozen copies of this edition are held in British libraries, but while her original artwork has now been discovered in the US, the exact copy from which Sayers reproduced the map remains unidentified. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Esmeralda Masson de Azevedo was a noted teacher, active in Rio de Janeiro’s elementary school system during the First Republic. She became one of the most prominent writers of textbooks for children, covering subjects that range from Arithmetic, Geography, and Chorography to History. In this paper, I seek to understand her role as an educator, in the cultural circles of the former Brazilian federal capital during the first two decades of the twentieth century, as well as the role she played as a cultural mediator who wrought a cartography of Brazilian spaces for educational purposes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper discusses the low power of traditional care offers for so-called complex users in the health sector. It aims to show, from the narratives of two guiding-users, that professionals, services, and policies disregard the multiple singularities involved in the care and attempt to overlap their knowledge in asymmetrical relationships. They are often put at stake in their ability to generate interesting and more life-producing offers. In this sense, this work built on two qualitative, cartographic studies that aimed to reflect, based on two guiding-users, promoting considerations on how contact with the field/territory and the meeting with these two women (guiding-users) deterritorialized concepts and affected researchers and research. The results indicate that cartography allows the production of the common, understood as a way of operating health work. Here, one seeks to consider each subject's unique individual power as a fundamental issue for the production of care. The disease leaves the scenario as a guide, vulnerability as fragility or impotence, to make way for the "defense of a life worth living" as a guide. Possible lives that users generate, whether or not they are in the streets and a vulnerable condition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Maps produced during the saga of European 'discovery' were shown to erase local forms of spatial knowledge of colonised populations to serve domination interests. This paper explores the continuation of this colonial erasing logic in local planning practices in Jamundí, a municipality where Black peasants' traditional farms persist in a sugarcane dominated landscape. We first compare official maps from the current Land Use Plan of Jamundí with social cartography produced by afro-descendant community councils to analyse the maps' selections, omissions and additions. Through community map drawings and collective discussions during cartography workshops, interviews and tours of the territory, we then reconstruct a Black geography that is concealed in official maps. Our analysis shows that official maps naturalise a scale in which only plantations are formally represented, rendering invisible small-scale traditional agricultural systems and Black ecologies, favouring the expansion of uses and activities detrimental to Black territorial projects in Jamundí. We argue that afro-descendant living spaces and experiences are visually omitted from spatial representation in the physical planning maps through institutionalised processes. We conclude that decolonising local planning is crucial for the recognition and securing of afro-descendant customary land and territorial rights in Colombia as well as for regional sustainability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the Chinese Collections Digitization Project of Selden Map of China painted with watercolours and ink on Chinese paper, is a unique example of Chinese merchant cartography depicting a network of shipping routes.

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The dynamics of property regime play a key role in understanding the socio-economic and cultural evolution of the Romanian Principalities during the late Middle Ages. In the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries the main landowners were the boyars (the local elite), the ecclesiastical institutions and the free peasants. The latter, known to have financial obligations only to the State, were in a constant feud with the boyars and the monasteries for the landownership of their estates. A rather common practice for the free peasants was to found a skete (a monastic community) and to endow it with a part of their domain. Focusing on the Buzău Subcarpathians, this paper attempts to examine the spatial dimensions of an estate donated by a free peasant, who later became a monk, to the skete founded by him. The paper uses the toponyms extracted from historical documents, oral histories and GIS to precisely locate the seventeenth-century estate and its subsequent evolution. The approach also serves as a tool for understanding the role played by the estates from a social, economic and administrative point of view. Finally, the paper explains the importance of the findings to the dynamic of the regional administrative county bounds, to the creation of a Historical-Geographical Information System (HGIS) in Romania and also to local tourism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There are increasing efforts within Anglophone geography to take seriously and learn from knowledges produced in the global south. Although this move is usually based on ethical and political motivations of Anglophone geographers, there are competing sets of pragmatic and parochial motivations that pose tensions. The value of learning from the south is often only implicitly made and few attempts have been made to map the evolving forms and distribution of values generated through engaging southern knowledges. Critically reflecting on my own engagements with Latin American, and particularly Argentine, knowledges, this paper argues that current enthusiasm with southern epistemologies may be paving the way for the intensification of epistemic expropriation: the extraction and valorisation of knowledge in a depoliticised context elsewhere. The paper develops the notion of epistemic expropriation to direct attention to how south-north circulations of academic knowledge may be complicit in the geographically uneven valorisation of academic labour and the depoliticisation of knowledge’s concrete use-values. In the process of learning from Latin American knowledges, particularly around territory, I have generated clear value for my own career progression, and for Anglophone geographers, while it is less clear what my Argentine counterparts have gained. Moreover, in abstracting knowledges from their particular terrains of struggles, particularly the experiences of Greater Buenos Aires, I have facilitated a depoliticisiation of grassroots ideas and practices. The final section argues that practices of epistemic expropriation are reinforced and sustained by Anglophone hegemony in “international” geography, posing dilemmas for those engaging with southern knowledges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Migration and residential mobility researchers are increasingly exploring moves across the entire life course, rather than singular migration events (Coulter et al. 2016). Depending on the person, residential moves across an entire lifetime can be international as well as local or regional, and so methods that are sensitive to various spatial scales are necessary. This paper provides an overview of a qualitative geographical information systems (GIS) method that is sensitive to changing spatial scales of migration. Combined biographical interviews, mapping and visual methods were used to explore the migration paths of international and domestic migrants to the regional city of Maroochydore, Australia. Participants were asked to outline and describe the places they have lived throughout their life course, while their residential locations were mapped and visually represented using Tour Builder 3D© (Tour Builder) and Google Earth© satellite imagery. By combining the mapping exercise with a traditional oral interview, additional data were generated as the participants discussed their satisfaction and personal experiences of each location. The multiscalar ability of Tour Builder and Google Earth allowed the participants' migration biographies to be followed virtually as they described their place experiences and perceptions at the local, regional and national levels. This paper is a step towards bridging the gap between international and domestic migration and mobility studies, and presents a creative biographical mapping method with the potential for further mapping applications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Real-world radiance values span several orders of magnitudes which have to be processed by artificial systems in order to capture visual scenes with a high visual sensitivity. Interestingly, it has been found that similar processing happens in biological systems, starting at the retina level. So our motivation in this paper is to develop a new video tone mapping operator (TMO) based on a synergistic model of the retina. We start from the so-called Virtual Retina model, which has been developed in computational neuroscience. We show how to enrich this model with new features to use it as a TMO, such as color management, luminance adaptation at photoreceptor level and readout from a heterogeneous population activity. Our method works for video but can also be applied to static images (by repeating images in time). It has been carefully evaluated on standard benchmarks in the static case, giving comparable results to the state-of-the-art using default parameters, while offering user control for finer tuning. Results on HDR videos are also promising, specifically w.r.t. temporal luminance coherency. As a whole, this paper shows a promising way to address computational photography challenges by exploiting the current research in neuroscience about retina processing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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• Cartography is embedded within social power and affirming/devaluing of Black life. • A history of counter-mapping exists within African American Freedom Struggle. • Black resistance expands what counts as a map, map-maker, and politics of mapping. • Anti-lynching campaigns mapped Black murders to condemn white mob violence. • Ida B. Wells remapped the scale of public acknowledgement of racial terror of lynching. Responding to recent work in critical cartographic studies and Black Geographies, the purpose of this paper is to offer a conceptual framework and a set of evocative cartographic engagements that can inform geography as it recovers the seldom discussed history of counter-mapping within the African American Freedom Struggle. Black resistant cartographies stretch what constitutes a map, the political work performed by maps, and the practices, spaces, and political-affective dimensions of mapping. We offer an extended illustration of the conventional and unconventional mapping behind USA anti-lynching campaigns of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, highlighting the knowledge production practices of the NAACP and the Tuskegee Institute's Monroe Work, and the embodied counter-mapping of journalist/activist Ida B. Wells. Recognizing that civil rights struggles are long, always unfolding, and relationally tied over time and space, we link this look from the past to contemporary, ongoing resistant cartographical practices as scholars/activists continue to challenge racialized violence and advance transitional justice, including the noted memory-work of the Equal Justice Initiative. An understanding of African American traditions of counter-mapping is about more than simply inserting the Black experience into our dominant ideas about cartography or even resistant mapping. Black geographies has much to teach cartography and geographers about what people of color engaged in antiracist struggles define as geographic knowledge and mapping practices on their own terms—hopefully provoking a broader and more inclusive definition of the discipline itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the era of big data rich inWe Media, the single mode retrieval system has been unable to meet people's demand for information retrieval. This paper proposes a new solution to the problem of feature extraction and unified mapping of different modes: A Cross-Modal Hashing retrieval algorithm based on Deep Residual Network (CMHR-DRN). The model construction is divided into two stages: The first stage is the feature extraction of different modal data, including the use of Deep Residual Network (DRN) to extract the image features, using the method of combining TF-IDF with the full connection network to extract the text features, and the obtained image and text features used as the input of the second stage. In the second stage, the image and text features are mapped into Hash functions by supervised learning, and the image and text features are mapped to the common binary Hamming space. In the process of mapping, the distance measurement of the original distance measurement and the common feature space are kept unchanged as far as possible to improve the accuracy of Cross-Modal Retrieval. In training the model, adaptive moment estimation (Adam) is used to calculate the adaptive learning rate of each parameter, and the stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is calculated to obtain the minimum loss function. The whole training process is completed on Caffe deep learning framework. Experiments show that the proposed algorithm CMHR-DRN based on Deep Residual Network has better retrieval performance and stronger advantages than other Cross-Modal algorithms CMFH, CMDN and CMSSH. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper addresses the value of re-surveys in two different regions with different cultural and landscape formation histories: the Upper Volturno basin in Molise (the hinterland of the colony of Aesernia, modern Isernia), and the Melfese area in Basilicata (the hinterland of the colony of Venusia, modern Venosa). In these areas, we compare legacy datasets with newly acquired survey data in the same areas, and compare the results by means of statistics (Chi-square) and visual exploration (cartographical and GIS-based analysis). The statistical comparisons of these different surveys show that site numbers may change significantly. This paper explores the reasons for these dynamics in the archaeological surface record by focussing especially on landscape changes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Qualitative interviews were undertaken with visitors at five museums that display the histories and experiences of immigration in the United States and Australia. This paper outlines the range of embodied performative practices of meaning making that visitors undertook during their visits and the meanings and political values that they created or reaffirmed in doing so. The key performance at these museums were the affirmation and reinforcement of familial, ethnic and national identities in which individuals explored the tensions between migrant identity and the nationalizing narratives of the resident nation. The performance of reinforcement could also be used to justify both politically progressive and conservative narratives of inclusion and exclusion. Building on performances of reinforcement some visitors also engaged in acts of justification, recognition and misrecognition. In illustrating and mapping out the range of banal and complex ways these museums were used by visitors, the paper argues that museums may be more usefully understood as arenas of justification rather than resources for public education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is concerned with the implementation and realisation of a Worldwide Electronic Navigational Charts Database (WEND), adopted by the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) and its members in supporting marine navigation. It identifies the issue of gaps and overlaps between adjoining Electronic Navigational Charts (ENCs) and explores its consequences to the operation of Electronic Chart Display and Information Systems (ECDIS) and the fulfilment of International Maritime Organization (IMO) chart carriage requirements. As the ENCs production is directly dependent on states' cartographic competences, this paper delves into the coastal states' jurisdiction in accordance with international law of the sea, and in particular the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, and IHO and IMO instruments. Through a case study on recently produced ENCs in the Mediterranean and more specifically in the Aegean Sea, this paper documents the necessity to respect states' cartographic competences in realising the WEND concept and cautions that, otherwise, new and extended overlaps emerge, which pose a risk to the safety of navigation, and, at the same time, become means through which states may promote their geopolitical aspirations as to jurisdiction over certain marine areas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Java la Grande on the Dieppe maps was quite likely depicted on the authority of the travel writings of Marco Polo and Ludovico di Varthema but, if they were the only sources of the cartographers' information, one would expect its coasts to have been drawn in one of the imaginary styles. In fact its coasts are drawn in the style of real coasts. In this paper a comparison is made of spatial data of the east coast of Java la Grande recovered from the Vallard atlas - one of the products of the Dieppe school of cartography - with spatial data of the east coast of Australia. The results of the comparison indicate that all of Java la Grande's east coast in this atlas is consistent with its being a depiction of Australia's east coast from about Princess Charlotte Bay in north Queensland to a little beyond the mouth of the Barwon River in Victoria. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines shifting attitudes in the late Ottoman official culture, with the argument that Palestine was claimed as an indispensable part of the imperial geography through modern technologies of photography, cartography, and warfare. The time period extends from the beginning of the construction of the Hijaz Railway in the 1880s to the British occupation of Jerusalem in 1917. The study is based on visual documents (photographs, maps, and postcards) drawn from the Ottoman archives, as well as from coverage in the Ottoman press of the time, most extensively from Servet-i Fünun. The discussion is organized around three key episodes. The first involves the construction of the Hijaz Railway, recorded by maps and a wealth of photographs. The photographs taken from heights, show endless landscapes crossed by rails, bridges, and tunnels - and crowded with Ottoman officers. The second explores how the Ottomans claimed Palestine through cartography. The topographic, ethnic, and touristic maps surveyed, organized, and conveyed a range of information on the district. The third focuses on the battles of the Gaza Front in 1917, tracing the advances and defeats of the Ottoman army as recorded by a series of maps accompanied by Hüseyin Hüsnü Emir's daily reports published in Yıldırım 1921. Significantly, World War I brought Palestine to the forefront of Ottoman military and political agendas, as conveyed through illustrated publications, most notably Harb Mecmuası, a periodical dedicated exclusively to the war. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) has made possible the expansion the mapping to previously unmapped areas, thanks to technological advancements such as Web 2.0 and satellite imagery. However, more than a technical feature, VGI has brought to light the political aspects of cartography, when multiple stakeholders have access to mapping tools. This is the case of the collaborative mapping strategies used to map North Korea, one of the most, if not the most, closed countries in the world in terms of diplomatic relations, tourism and its economy. OpenStreetMap (OSM) enables "armchair mappers" to map opaque territories in which local governments control citizens' access to the internet. In this paper, we discuss the following questions: Who is mapping North Korea in OSM? Which tools and methods do contributors use to gain access to information about the country and to represent it? What are the motivations behind this mapping endeavor? We analyze technical aspects of OSM data for North Korea and structured correspondence exchanged with 889 contributors. We argue that crowdsourced efforts can make good the dearth of knowledge resulting from the physical, cultural and political barriers associated with uncharted territories and that, although the motivations for such efforts vary greatly, they all have their origin in a sense of empathy and the power technology has to penetrate geopolitical barriers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The visualisation of environmental data has a great importance not only for the presentation of the research results but also for decision-making processes, which are often based on using maps. This paper presents the research on the stocks of the stored carbon in Czechia with the focus on the proper methods of data visualisation. Within the study, the existing carbon stocks and their development in time using four aboveground biomass, underground biomass, dead organic matter and soil carbon, was determined. For each analysed landscape segment individual carbon pools, based on the mapping of current land use, topography and vegetation state, were identified. Subsequently, the methods of visualising the partial results and the resulting data of the stored carbon were selected. The contribution includes the justification of the chosen visualisation methods, with an emphasis on the accurate visualisation of environmental data and consequent correct interpretation by the map user. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper has two principal goals. The first is to set out a bit of conceptual cartography, mapping out a number of distinct conceptual issues that are frequently conflated in the vast literature on multiple realization. The second is to review very briefly how work by Carl Gillett and myself attempts to address a few of the many problems of multiple realization. One of these is explaining what Jerry Fodor apparently took to be mysterious, namely, how multiple realization of properties is possible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Historians working on Singapore and the Malay Peninsula during the early modern period have often relied on the works of the Eurasian writer and cartographer Manuel Godinho de Erédia (1563-1623). While some of his works have drawn attention, such as his Description of Melaka (c.1613), one of the lesser- known cartographic works ascribed to him, the Atlas Miscelânea (Miscellany Atlas, 1616-22), still requires closer and authoritative study. At the dawn of the seventeenth century, the escalation of Portuguese expeditionary activities in and around the region led to the uncovering and creation of new knowledge. The Miscellany Atlas contains three maps of the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra that offer a glimpse into a local trading world that was interconnected by riverine systems and overland trails. With the help of different analytical frameworks employed for understanding Malay polities of the pre-modern era, this paper carefully peels back the layers of information that have been sketched out and visually represented in these maps. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Long fascinating to those who study cartography, the cordiform maps (from the Latin for heart, cor) are known to few outside that small group. The cordiform projection has been considered something of an anomaly, sitting uncomfortably with the discoveries and discourses of the New World or the genesis of modern cartography. This paper asks why the shape of a heart was chosen for imaging the world. To answer this requires exploring meanings for the heart image outside of its use in cartography. This approach sees the map not as a fixed sign, judged by its geographic content alone, but a complex image under pressure from wider expectations upon the mapmakers and their audiences. In the sixteenth century, meanings were attributed to the heart that we no longer subscribe to today, including learning and memory, leadership and wisdom. A second aim is to establish that the maps’ shape – the heart – was intimately entangled with aspirations about the New World. Ultimately, these unusual maps can illuminate the mindset of those in Europe aspiring to a new vision of human affairs, suggesting that the early modern cartographic enterprise was not as homogenous as is often considered. This paper introduces audiences to the maps as well as key issues that have hindered their interpretation. It will show that they, perhaps more than any other maps of their time, are critical for revealing potentially conflicting and controversial aspirations for the New World. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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