Digitale Landschaften.

摘要

This book on digital landscapes addresses an important topic that has not as yet been studied by historians of technology very thoroughly. It aims at localizing the recent automation of geographical data gathering, processing, and representation within the broad context of a history of cartography. In roughly 200 pages, it covers four centuries and analyzes developments in the United States and in Germany.The history of cartography is a well-established field, but research such as Leo Bagrow's History of Cartography (1964) has traditionally focused on the early modern period, when cartographer-artists produced beautiful masterpieces that paved the way for the modern appropriation of the world.