It is a good summary of how jurisdictional waters are determined (and how disputes are settled). This work culminated in the modern electronic databases, including the World Vector Shoreline.Ĭhapter 8 addresses coastal baselines and boundaries and territorial seas. While this took many decades, most of the early maps were of coastal areas. Chapter 7 continues a historical overview, here beginning with the later-nineteenth-century movement to map the world at a decent (1:1,000,000) scale. Chapter 6 examines map projections and global reference datums (geoids, spheroids, ellipsoids) and their improvements and digitization over time. It covers stereoscopy and advances in topographic mapping and ends with an overview of lidar mapping (topographic and bathymetric). coastal surveyors.Ĭhapter 5 introduces aerial photography and how it advanced coastal mapping. Chapter 4 covers nineteenth-century technologies, notably the theodolite and triangulation, especially as used by U.S. Chapter 3 goes over the history of coastal mapping, from the portolan charts to early experimentation with grid systems to mythical islands.
Coast and Geodetic Survey mapping and also Flood Insurance Rate Maps. Monmonier includes a nice summary of U.S. Chapter 2 is a primer on tides, tidal datums, coastal surveying, and coastal mapping. The first chapter is a primer on concepts in mapping, especially as applied to shoreline, and includes discussions of scale, generalization, resolution, types of navigation charts, and map accuracy. The eleven chapters support the scope well. However, the technical details are, for the most part, relegated to the references and endnotes, and the overall read of the book is smooth and straightforward. In the preface, Monmonier admits that the content can get quite technical. Monmonier identifies four distinct coastlines: a high-water line, represented on most maps and atlases a low-water line, developed in the nineteenth century as a navigation aid for larger vessels shorelines projected on the basis of storm activity and coastal erosion and shorelines projected as a result of sea-level-rise forecast models. various intersections of land and the sea.
The aim of the book is to present to a general audience an overview of how mapmakers have represented. This volume, on mapping shorelines, is yet another excellent contribution, and one that fits well within the theme of technology and culture. Mark Monmonier is a cartographer, distinguished professor, and writer extraordinaire who has produced fifteen books on various themes tied to mapping.
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