2016, Vol.16, No.1

Journal of the Korean Cartographic Association 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 1.34

pISSN : 1598-6160
https://journal.kci.go.kr/jkca

The purpose of this paper is to explore Oronce Finé’s heart-shaped world maps in two aspects: symbolic meaning of heart-shape and East Asian information in the maps. Adopting cordiform map projection, Fine tried to present his royalty to the King Francine I and his love for heart sign. Representing Asia and North America as one continent, Fine drew East Asia based on Marco Polo and Pigafetta information. Patala region of India and Southern Brazil which may be interpreted as Indian region were marked in the northern part of Terra Australis, and this region was changed to Java la Grande in the Dieppe school of cartography.

Most globes show information on earth’s surface, but have limited information on the bathymetry. Most undersea features are yet to be discovered, and only 18% of sea surface is mapped in 500m expanse. As GEBCO (The General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans) has archived several levels of bathymetry data over the world and tries to provide new style of globes. Authors try to classify globes by new scheme and give some vision to expand awareness of both bathymetry data and undersea features. Development of IT technologies expand the scope and information contents so much that cyber or digital globes show the nature of earth better than ever before. We performed SWOT analysis for the commercial use of globes with GEBCO’s bathymetry data set. We discussed educational issues in delivering various classes of globes to the classroom. This article may be a part of outreach activities of GEBCO products.

The purpose of this paper is to implement the internet-based geographic information service of a literature with the development of GIS and IT. For this, this research tried to implement the Google Mashup service by extracting geographic knowledge and thinking of Goethe with the case of the literature 'Italian Journey'. In order to do it, eight categories were applied to extract geographic knowledge and thinking in the Goethe's Italian Journey. Next, the extracted texts were applied to the point locations where Goethe visited or stayed in Italian Journey, and the related data such as pictures, illustration, and video were collected and hyperlinked. In the perspective of cartography, in addition to the basic maps and functions from Google Maps, additional GIS files for administrative boundary, river, and city were converted to KML, and imported and incorporated into Google Maps for map service, which might help to understand the Geothe's geographical description about climate, geomorphology, and urban landscape of visited regions. Through this case study, I found the efficiency of GIS and internet map service for literature.