TY - JOUR
T1 - Cartography at syracuse university
AU - Monmonier, Mark
N1 - Funding Information:
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the heyday of the undergraduate cartography program, advanced classes used the production lab and large instructional darkroom to prepare negative artwork and color separations for a variety of color maps, including thousands of tourist maps for distribution by local agencies in Rome, Syracuse, and Utica. A National Science Foundation (NSF) instructional equipment grant awarded in 1980 helped the laboratory purchase a modern platemaker and upgrade the darkroom's photographic processing equipment. In 1975, with the aid of an earlier NSF grant, we had purchased a Hewlett-Packard 9830A micro-computer system, with a pen plotter and digitizer. Several classes used this system for a variety of BASIC programming projects before technological progress made it obsolete.
Funding Information:
In 1987 the university administration decided to enter the competition for a multimillion-dollar National Science Foundation (NSF) award to operate the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA). To strengthen our proposal, the vice chancellor gave geography three new positions in GIS, spatial analysis, and cartography. Two positions were filled in time to have some influence on NSF's decision to include Syracuse among its four NCGIA semifinalists: the department hired Daniel Griffith, a prominent spatial statistician, and Robert McMaster, a cartographer with a bachelor's degree from Syracuse and a doctorate from Kansas. With McMaster's arrival in 1988, Syracuse finally got the second cartographer vital in many ways to the success of the Wisconsin, Kansas, and other leading graduate programs in cartography. And although NSF didn't choose Syracuse as one of its two finalists, getting that far was an impressive achievement.
PY - 1991/1/1
Y1 - 1991/1/1
N2 - Syracuse University is a private, coeducational, residential university with 12,000 undergraduate and 4,500 graduate students. Since it opened in 1871, Syracuse has grown from a small Methodist liberal arts college to a nonsectarian university with 15 schools and colleges. The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, which includes the Department of Geography and the cartography program, consists of the university's social sciences departments, a widely recognized graduate program in public administration, and several related interdisciplinary programs. Facilities supporting cartography include a large map collection in the university library, the Advanced Graphics Research Laboratory, and a number of relevant courses in the School of Information Studies, the School of Computer and Information Science, and the Newhouse School of Public Communications.
AB - Syracuse University is a private, coeducational, residential university with 12,000 undergraduate and 4,500 graduate students. Since it opened in 1871, Syracuse has grown from a small Methodist liberal arts college to a nonsectarian university with 15 schools and colleges. The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, which includes the Department of Geography and the cartography program, consists of the university's social sciences departments, a widely recognized graduate program in public administration, and several related interdisciplinary programs. Facilities supporting cartography include a large map collection in the university library, the Advanced Graphics Research Laboratory, and a number of relevant courses in the School of Information Studies, the School of Computer and Information Science, and the Newhouse School of Public Communications.
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U2 - 10.1559/152304091783786943
DO - 10.1559/152304091783786943
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:2142780219
SN - 1523-0406
VL - 18
SP - 205
EP - 207
JO - Cartography and Geographic Information Science
JF - Cartography and Geographic Information Science
IS - 3
ER -