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The Development of Analytical Cartography: A Personal Note.
In the late 1960s, I initiated a course with the title "Analytical Cartography" at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. At the behest of Dr. H. Moellering of Ohio State University (who was at one time a student in the course), a short personal historical perspective of the development of the course was presented at the recent Hawaii meeting of the Association of American Geographers. That review tried to put the subject and the development of the course in the context of the time. This is a written synopsis of the Hawaii presentation.
Some Background My arrival in Michigan in 1961 followed that of John Nystuen, both of us having come from the University of Washington where our training included the use of computers and the application of quantitative methods to the field of geography. My studies included course work with John Sherman and William Garrison, and with J. Ross MacKay who came to Seattle as a visitor from British Columbia. Charles Davis, then chairman at Michigan, hired me to teach and do research in the field of cartography. As I began teaching cartography I tried to include some of the subjects I had learned as a graduate student but that were not in the contemporary textbooks. At the time, the choice of such books was restricted to those of E. Raisz and of A. Robinson. Both were excellent books, but not what I was after. Within this context, my course was an attempt to formalize the notion that cartographic methods are used f...See the full content of this document
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