History of Military Cartography [electronic resource] : 5th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography, 2014 /
Liebenberg, Elri.editor.
Demhardt, Imre Josef.editor.
Vervust, Soetkin.editor.
This volume gathers 19 papers first presented at the 5th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography, which took place at the University of Ghent, Belgium on 2-5 December 2014. The overall conference theme was 'Cartography in Times of War and Peace', but preference was given to papers dealing with the military cartography of the First World War (1914-1918). The papers are classified by period and regional sub-theme, i.e. Military Cartography from the 18th to the 20th century; WW I Cartography in Belgium, Central Europe, etc.
Description based upon print version of record.
Preface; Contents; Contributors; About the Editors; Part I; Military Cartography during World War I; Image of Belgium in WWI Through Maps; 1     "Europeana Collections 1914-1918"; 2     The First Years of the War; 3  From 1916 Onwards; References; The Postal Service of the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps (1917-1919): A Time-Step Analysis Using Historical Data Integration in a GIS Environment; 1 Historical Context and the Need to Appoint a Civilian Team to Organize a Military Service; 2 Disclosing the Activities of the SPC Through the Collection of Humberto da Cunha Serrão
2.1 The Collection of the Head of the Postal Service and Other Documents of the Portuguese Communications Foundation2.2 Searching Other Archives: Completing, Complementing and Clarifying the Collected Information; 3 GIS Analysis of Historical Cartography; 3.1 Geocoding; 3.2 Georeferencing; 3.3 GIS Spatial Analysis; 4 Conclusion; References; Position Mapping: Cartography, Intelligence, and the Third Battle of Gaza, 1917; 1 Introduction and Context; 1.1 Historical Context; 1.2 Scholarly Context; 2 The Woodward Framework and the EEF Cartographic System; 2.1 Information-Gathering
2.2 Information-Processing2.3 Document Distribution; 2.4 Document Use; 3 The Position Maps; 3.1 What, Where, When, and How: The Production of the Position Maps; 3.2 Who and Why: The Distribution, Purpose, and Use of the Position Maps; 4 Conclusions; References; The Eye of the Army: German Aircraft and Aero Cartography in World War I; 1 Introduction; 2 Aircraft at War; 3 Maps Used by German Aircraft; 3.1 The  Terms "Fliegerkarte" and "Aero Map"; 3.2 The First Two Official aeronautical Map Series; 4 Aero Maps Newly Developed During Wartime; 5 New Methods of Aerial Mapping
6 Maps of the Front for Military Pilots7 Radio-Signal Navigational Charts; 8 Conclusion; References; A Good Map Is Half The Battle!  The Military Cartography of the Central Powers in World War I ; 1    Some Background; 1.1    Preliminary Cartographic Work Prior to World War I; 1.2    The Organisational Structure of Official Cartography in Germany; 2    War Maps by German Survey Offices; 2.1    Overview; 2.2    Maps of the Western and Eastern Fronts; 2.3    Specialty Maps; 3    The Balkans, Middle East and Africa; 3.1    Military Map Making in the Austro-Hungarian Double Monarchy
3.2    Military Map Making in the Middle East3.3    Military Mapping of Africa; 3.4    Post-war Versions of Overseas and Western Front Maps; 4    Conclusion; References ; Military and Civilian Mapping (ca 1912-1930) of the Great War: A Selective Private Collection (Including Postcards); 1 Entries; Part II; Maps and the Aftermath of World War I; Mapping, Battlefield Guidebooks, and Remembering the Great War; 1    Introduction; 2    Battlefield Guidebooks, Maps, and Automobility; 3    Michelin's Battlefield Guidebooks and the Landscape of War; 4    Mapping and Navigating the Landscape of War
5    Conclusion
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
This volume gathers 19 papers first presented at the 5th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography, which took place at the University of Ghent, Belgium on 2-5 December 2014. The overall conference theme was 'Cartography in Times of War and Peace', but preference was given to papers dealing with the military cartography of the First World War (1914-1918). The papers are classified by period and regional sub-theme, i.e. Military Cartography from the 18th to the 20th century; WW I Cartography in Belgium, Central Europe, etc.
Geographical information systems.
Geographical Information Systems/Cartography.