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Cartography
On Line
CartographyOnline.com/index.php
CartoTalk (Cartography and design forum)
www.cartotalk.com
Oddens Bookmarks
oddens.geog.uu.nl/index.php
hIstoRy of cARtogRAPhy
David Rumsey (Historic map collection online)
www.davidrumsey.com
Herman Dunlop Smith Center for
the History of Cartography
www.newberry.org/smith/smithhome.html
Newsletter:
Mapline
Imago Mundi (Journal for history of cartography)
www.maphistory.info/imago.html
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Appendix c
glossary
“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful
tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor
less.”
—L
ewis
Carroll,
Through the
Looking Glass (1896)
These definitions are the generally accepted meanings
of the terms used and are
intended to provide the reader with a working knowledge of the terms.
Abstract symbol. Also called “arbitrary symbol.” A type of symbol that is not visually or
conceptually related to the object represented. Such symbols are frequently geometric
shapes, such as circles, squares, and triangles.
