This collection explores how cartographers in Pacific Asia, North America, and Europe have incorporated the concept of time into maps over the last five centuries. Its main objective is to show that conventional cartography, in addition to be being spatial, is an inherently temporal medium, and that all maps tell time after a fashion. Wigen, Winterer, and their co-contributors argue that mapmakers have always involved time in their cartography, often in highly creative and distinctive ways. Today, time is increasingly represented with digital cartography using time sliders, dynamic graphics, and other ways of seeing time driven by Geographic Information Systems (gis), but these tools are only the latest exciting addition to an ongoing history of spatio-temporal cartography.
Time in Maps consists of an introduction by the editors, a preliminary essay by William Rankin, and three sections of two or three papers each about Pacific Asia, the Atlantic World,...