Mapping Time. Menno-Jan Kraak

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map

       2.1 The map

       About Minard

       2.2 Minard’s work

       2.3 Mapping 1812

       As a historical event

       Inspired by Minard

       Curiosities

       3 Time

       3.1 What about time?

       3.2 Types of time

       3.3 Events and change

       3.4 Questions and time

       3.5 Temporal data visualization and time-space

       4 Maps, data, and design

       4.1 Map basics

       4.2 Map data analysis

       4.3 Map design

       5 Maps and time

       5.1 Map narrative

       5.2 Expressing change

       Change from object perspective

       Change from attribute perspective

       Change from location perspective

       Change and Minard’s representation of Napoleon’s Russian campaign

       Change and the map background

       5.3 Change in a single map

       Flow line map

       Cartograms

       Space-time cube

       A third dimension

       5.4 Change in a series of maps

       5.5 Change in animation

       6 Maps and temporal exploration

       6.1 From presentation to exploration

       Mapping environment

       Representation

       Design guidelines

       Visualization strategies

       6.2 Exploring

       Examining Napoleon’s battle record

       What happened at the crossing of the Berezina River?

       7 Reflection

       References

       Credits

       Index

      Preface

      How do we map time? That has been the overriding question guiding my research. Questions about mapping time challenge us to go beyond the conventional snapshot-based approach to maps in order to incorporate processes. Such a task requires a different view of maps now that technological advancements have made time-related data so abundant. We need new approaches to this data that will enrich our knowledge about spatiotemporal patterns and relations and their implications for the real world. Indeed, how we conceptualize mapping time will fundamentally shape how we understand the data and how we present our findings to various audiences.

      Minard’s map of Napoleon’s Russian campaign in 1812 has played a role in my career ever since my research interests in mapping time matured. Many claim that this might be the best map ever made. It is worth challenging the truth of such a statement, which many of my former students have done in the course of their research. It would be easy to refute the claim, of course, because every situation demands its own map so, in my view, there cannot be a single best map.

      Almost all of the book’s illustrations—over 110 in all—relate either directly or indirectly to the Russian campaign. The dataset supporting my analysis of Minard’s map has expanded significantly over the years. My growing interest in the French invasion has led me to amass a large repository of data, including many shelves of books, maps, and games related

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