Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!dali.cs.montana.edu!milton!brucec%phoebus.phoebus.labs.tek.com@RELAY.CS.NET From: brucec%phoebus.phoebus.labs.tek.com@RELAY.CS.NET Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: Navigation and maps Message-ID: Date: 23 Aug 90 21:57:11 GMT Sender: hlab@milton.u.washington.edu Organization: Tektronix Inc. Lines: 42 Approved: hitl@hardy.u.washington.edu I've just discovered a fascinating book on the theory of the use and design of cartographic maps. Quoting from the back jacket: "This book is the first to deal in a detailed and systematic way with the principles of visual preception as applied to maps. The book is divided into three parts. The first part examines the basic processes of visual perception, drawing on the knowledge derived from physiology and psychology, and at the same time focusing attention on the particular visual characteristics of maps. Specific examples are used to illustrate both map-making problems and map-using tasks. In the second part the sign system of the map, and the way in which information is represented and expressed, is treated in detail, especially the relationships between the map and language, and between the map and reality. The importance of a cognitive approach to problems of visual perception is stressed throughout, and in the third part the author looks at the problem of the connnections between the map maker, the map, and the map user ..." I've just started it, but it looks like the closest thing I've found to a textbook on the theory of designing representations of spatial relationships for navigation. In fact, I wasn't sure that such a thing existed as a formal are of study. The citation is: @Book{, author = "Keats, J. S.", title = "Understanding Maps", publisher = "(USA) Halstead Press, div. of John Wiley and Sons", year = "1982", } --------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: USE THIS ADDRESS TO REPLY, REPLY-TO IN HEADER MAY BE BROKEN! Bruce Cohen, Computer Research Lab email: brucec@tekcrl.labs.tek.com Tektronix Laboratories, Tektronix, Inc. phone: (503)627-5241 M/S 50-662, P.O. Box 500, Beaverton, OR 97077 -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: USE THIS ADDRESS TO REPLY, REPLY-TO IN HEADER MAY BE BROKEN! Bruce Cohen, Computer Research Lab email: brucec@tekcrl.labs.tek.com Tektronix Laboratories, Tektronix, Inc. phone: (503)627-5241 M/S 50-662, P.O. Box 500, Beaverton, OR 97077