Map communication model: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 12:53, 25 February 2023

Latest revision as of 15:23, 14 August 2025

(One intermediate revision by one other user not shown)

Line 1:

The '''Map Communication Model''' is a theory in [[cartography]] that characterizes mapping as a process of transmitting geographic information via the map from the cartographer to the end-user.<ref name="Ubi06">[httphttps://ubikcan.blogspot.com/2006/08/map-communication-model-and-critical.html "The map communication model and critical cartography"], Ubikcan blogspot 8.13.2006. Retrieved 3 September 2008.</ref> It was perhaps the first paradigm to gain widespread acceptance in cartography in the international cartographic community and between academic and practising cartographers.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kent |first1=Alexander |title=Form Follows Feedback: Rethinking Cartographic Communication |journal=Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture |date=2018 |volume=13 |issue=2 |pages=96–112 |doi=10.16997/wpcc.296 |doi-access=free }}</ref>

== Overview ==

Line 9:

== History ==

{{Unreferenced-section|date=February 2023}}

Although this was a postwar discovery, the Map Communication Model (MCM) has its roots in [[information theory]] developed in the [[telephone]] industry before the war began. Mathematician, inventor, and teacher [[Claude Shannon]] worked at [[Bell Labs]] after completing his Ph.D. at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] in 1940. Shannon applied mathematical theory to information and demonstrated that communication could be reduced to binary digits ([[bit]]s) of positive and negative circuits. This information could be coded and transmitted across a [[Electronic noise|noisy]] [[interface (computer science)|interface]] without losing any meaning. Once the information was received it was then decoded by the listener; the integrity of the information remained intact. In producing meaningful sounds that could be measured for quality, Shannon produced the beginning of information theory and [[digital communication]] through circuits of on and off [[electric switch|switches]].

Line 19 ⟶ 20:

== External links ==

* [httphttps://ubikcan.blogspot.com/2006/08/map-communication-model-and-critical.html "The map communication model and critical cartography"], Ubikcan blogspot 8.13.2006.

[[Category:Cartography]]