Description The immense growth in the field of cartography and the increasing complexity of the techniques now employed by the cartographer has created
a gap in the available literature for one concise volume which provides a general outline of the most up to date and pertinent techniques
used in map production and reproduction. This volume represents more than three years work on the part of the Standing Commission of
Map Production of the International Cartographic Association to produce a balanced compendium of modern cartographic techniques. A major
task of the Commission was to ensure that, firstly, the subjects had international application and secondly, that there was continuity
of presentation. In order to ensure this an Editorial Committee headed by J.P. Curran (Canada) assisted by K. Burmester (Denmark), A.J.
Kers (The Netherlands) and Professor E. Spiess (Switzerland) was set up to coordinate the project. The Compendium contains descriptions
of 85 techniques and is extensively illustrated with diagrams and photographs. Although not intended to be a comprehensive text book,
it will certainly be an indispensable reference volume in the training of cartographers in universities and technical institutions around
the world. It will be of interest to all map producing organisations and be of benefit to cartography internationally. As a standard,
international source, no cartographer should remain unaware of this very important milestone in the record of late twentieth century
cartography.
Contents
Image Generation. Point plotting. Drawing techniques. Scribing. Cut and peel. Dry transfer technique. Stick-on technique. Lettering.
Digital Data Capture. Keyboard entry of alphanumeric data. Manual digitizing. Raster scan digitization. Automatic line following
(digitizing). Digital stereo compilation.
Contact Copying at Scale. Photographic contact copying of line negatives and positives.
Photographic contact copying in continuous-tone. Photographic contact copying of continuous-tone in colour. Contact printing with dichromated
colloids. Contact printing with photopolymer film. Diazo contact copying. Cyanotype or blueline process. Brown print or Vandyke copying
process. Deep etch scribecoat copying process. Peel coat or strip mask technique. Copying of press plates for lithographic printing.
Geometrical Image Transformations. Line photography (including cameras and microfilm reproduction). Continuous-tone photography.
Colour photography.
Value Transformations. Half-tone reproduction. Hard dot contact printing (tint screening). Changing line widths.
Preparation of outlines. Photomechanical vignetting. Half-tone to continuous-tone conversion. Changing contrast for half-tone screening.
Continuous-tone to line conversion. Density slicing. Edge enhancement (photoline technique). Phototone technique. Block-out technique
(also called hold-out or fat mask technique).
Image Separation. Manual colour separation of line work. Photographic colour separation
of line work. Colour separation of continuous-tone images by photography.
Image Combinations. Combination of negatives by contact
printing. Combination of positives and negatives. Photomechanical colour-proofing. Combination of colours by overlay methods.
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