A Cartographic Workflow Manual for Endangered Species Conservation

In response to global consumer demand for rare and exotic wildlife products, poaching of endangered species has become pervasive around the world (Eliason 1999). Despite the enactment of CITES, and other international efforts to protect vulnerable species from overexploitation, the global market for illegal wildlife products is estimated as high as $20-billion a year industry (Wyler 2008). Within important wildlife habitat sites, law enforcement struggle to curb rampant poaching that threatens the ultimate survival of many endangered species (Jachmann 2008; Rowcliffe 2004). Law-enforcement agencies responsible for protecting wildlife from poachers often lack geospatial tools that could greatly improve the effectiveness of their efforts. These tools include accurate topographic maps with the appropriate scale and the level of detail necessary for navigating in difficult and dangerous terrain, and GIS base data needed to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of patrols (Pickles 2015). Recently, collaborations between the University of Montana (UM) and the large cat advocacy group Panthera, have enabled the production of geospatial packages for four protected areas of concern. These packages include printed topographic map series, GPS base-maps and comprehensive GIS base data. Throughout the creation of these packages, UM faculty and students have developed a nuanced workflow for this process using GIS and graphic design software. Until 2018, this workflow had yet to be fully documented. This document presents this workflow in the form of a cartographic manual, including step-by-step methods for creating appropriate geospatial packages. The goal of this document is to increase the efficiency of future cartographic collaborations between UM and conservation-minded groups, while providing valuable educational resources for UM students in GIS and cartography

Proceedings of the meeting on: Research based on Ordnance Survey small-scales digital data

Special issue (CISRG - Cartographic Information Systems Research Group) ;

Special Libraries, February 1978

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“‘Gulag’—Slavery, Inc.”: The Power of Place and the Rhetorical Life of a Cold War Map

In 1951, the American Federation of Labor produced a map of the Soviet Union showing the locations of 175 forced labor camps administered by the Gulag. Widely appropriated in popular magazines and newspapers, and disseminated internationally as propaganda against the U.S.S.R., the map, entitled “‘Gulag’—Slavery, Inc.,” would be cited as “one of the most widely circulated pieces of anti-Communist literature.” By contextualizing the map’s origins and circulation, as well as engaging in a close analysis of its visual codes and intertextual relationships with photographs, captions, and other materials, this essay argues that the Gulag map became an evidentiary weapon in the increasingly bipolar spaces of the early Cold War. In particular, “‘Gulag’—Slavery, Inc.” draws on cartography’s unique power of “placement” to locate forced labor camps with authenticity and precision, infiltrating the impenetrable spaces of the Soviet Union as a visually compelling mode of Cold War knowledge production

Cartographic Imaginings: Mapping Anglo-Scottish Existence in the Late Middle Ages

The presence of Scotland on the medieval map has remained largely unstudied, yet its historic contested existence within the British Isles makes it an ideal subject of analysis in determining the role early maps play in expressions of the nation. This essay offers a survey of medieval English cartographic depictions of Scotland which demonstrates that, rather than attempting to accurately delineate Scotland’s geographic shape, medieval cartographers imaginatively distort the British Isles to reflect imperial ambitions instead of national realities in a way that aligns the genre of the map with a number of imaginative contemporary literary genres including romance, prophecy, and utopia

Cartographic design aspects of medium - and - small - scale image maps : with specific reference to Libya

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